tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post6426367598678229884..comments2023-05-25T07:45:03.827-04:00Comments on Usually Right: A Stunning Announcement From Senator Jim DeMintWilliam R. Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-40123075707304743852012-12-10T18:30:42.904-05:002012-12-10T18:30:42.904-05:00http://washingtonexaminer.com/tim-carney-jim-demin...http://washingtonexaminer.com/tim-carney-jim-demint-was-the-libertarian-hero-of-the-senate/article/2515445?utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20-%2012/10/2012&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest#.<br /><br />* AGAIN... JUST THROWING IT OUT THERE!<br /><br />(*WINK*)William R. Barkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-5555950063605333892012-12-09T23:25:19.187-05:002012-12-09T23:25:19.187-05:00http://reason.com/blog/2012/12/06/will-jim-demint-...http://reason.com/blog/2012/12/06/will-jim-demint-bring-a-libertarian-flav<br /><br />* JUST THROWING IT OUT THERE, MY FRIENDS...William R. Barkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-57914452606774105652012-12-07T13:42:44.327-05:002012-12-07T13:42:44.327-05:00http://times247.com/articles/departing-demint-i-m-...http://times247.com/articles/departing-demint-i-m-not-with-boehner<br /><br />Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), who shocked Washington on Thursday with the announcement that he would resign his Senate seat in January to become president of the Heritage Foundation, sent a parting shot at Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) over the “fiscal cliff” negotiations.<br /><br />“I’m not with Boehner,” DeMint said on CNN’s "The Situation Room."<br /><br />“This government doesn’t need any more money, this country needs less government.”<br /><br />* FOLKS... ALL I CAN DO IS TRY AND KEEP THE FAITH... KEEP THE FAITH THAT FINALLY THE "DEMINT REPUBLICANS" ARE READY TO CROSS THE LINE AND GO AFTER BOEHNER AND THE RINOs DIRECTLY... AS INDIVIDUALS... PUBLICLY...William R. Barkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-84223214771540638502012-12-07T10:03:34.669-05:002012-12-07T10:03:34.669-05:00http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/07/j...http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/07/jim-demint-gains-more-power-over-gop-in-move-from-senate-to-heritage-foundation.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=cheatsheet_morning&cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bcheatsheet_morning&utm_term=Cheat%20Sheet<br /><br />* FROM A DEMOCRAT PERSPECTIVE...<br /><br />[O]n Thursday, when Tea Party firebrand Jim DeMint announced, “I’m leaving the Senate. But I am not leaving the fight,” he pulled off a move many lawmakers would have considered laughable: leaving elected office — for a think tank no less — because... the gig isn’t powerful enough.<br /><br />But conversations with several Senate staffers and Capitol Hill insiders say the shock is unmerited.<br /><br />Free of the rigors of actually making laws, and without the strictures of the Senate — as much as he bucked them — DeMint will be free to try and remake the Senate and the world into the more conservative place he thinks they should be.<br /><br />“DeMint is where the party is going,” said one GOP operative. “Heritage gets as their president the guy who is the intellectual heart of the party.”William R. Barkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281055791664170432.post-6943434192594992532012-12-06T11:20:34.542-05:002012-12-06T11:20:34.542-05:00I don't know what to think.
Best case scenari...I don't know what to think.<br /><br />Best case scenario... this is a well thought out opening move... the opening gambit in an attempt by DeMint and his friends, associates, colleagues, and followers to directly take on the RINOs across the national stage.<br /><br />In other words... best case scenario... DeMint and those in power who share his... share my... principles... he and they are finally prepared to follow my advice and go against the RINOs directly.<br /><br />My question: Why couldn't DeMint do this from the inside?<br /><br />My hope? DeMint and his advisers and his fellow Senate "Tea Partiers" have come to the conclusion that as a matter of not just stategy - but of tactics - DeMint is needed "outside" the official Republican elected power structure in order to better SUPPORT "his" followers who retain office.<br /><br />I just spoke to a staffer at DeMint's Washington office who told me that DeMint will be on Rush Limbaugh's show today.<br /><br />I'll be listening.<br /><br />More later!<br /><br />BILLWilliam R. Barkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03187458308703770056noreply@blogger.com