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Almost Like Jim DeMint Is Full Of Crap

5:26 pm EST March 17th, 2011 | Republicans | 6 Comments

Today Jim DeMint’s people noted that in order for Mitt Romney to get an endorsement for 2012, he’d have to repudiate RomneyCare. Ok, fine.

BUT… when DeMint endorsed Romney in 2008, he specifically praised RomneyCare.

It’s like these people have no core beliefs except the lust for power.

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Cut Duck #3 & #4: Rand Paul, Jim Demint

11:56 am EST November 8th, 2010 | Republicans | 26 Comments

cut duckCut Duck documents Republicans shucking and jiving as they refuse to name specific budget cuts they’ll make, exposing campaign promises to “cut the budget” as empty campaign rhetoric. If you see one, send it to me.

Rand Paul couldn’t identify what, exactly, he plans to cut from the budget:

On ABC’s “This Week,” Christiane Amanpour repeatedly pressed Paul to move beyond “slogans and platitudes” to “direct information” on how the Republican Party will balance the budget and cut the deficit.

Paul immediately reiterated that he was going to push for a balanced budget amendment and said that cuts needed to come from across the board — including defense spending. Whenever Amanpour asked whether a specific program — such as Medicare, Social Security and health care — would be cut, Paul simply kept reiterating that he was going to be looking “across the board.” He was unable, however, to actually name anything significant that would be on the chopping block

Jim DeMint didn’t do any better:

When asked by host David Gregory where the American people should be prepared to sacrifice in order to cut the deficit, DeMint said, “I don’t think the American people are going to have to sacrifice as much as the government bureaucrats who get paid about twice what the American worker does. First of all, we just need to return to pre-Obama levels of spending in 2008. We need to cut earmarks so people can stop taking home the bacon, we need to defund Obamacare and then we need to look at the entitlement programs, such as the way Paul Ryan has done in the House with his Road to America’s Future.”

When Gregory pointed out that going back to 2008 spending levels won’t get anywhere close to balancing the budget, he asked whether everything would be on the table. DeMint said he opposed cutting Social Security. “If we can just cut the administrative waste, we can cut hundreds of billions of dollars a year at the federal level. We need to keep our promises to seniors, David, and cutting benefits to seniors is not on the table.” DeMint also said that cutting benefits for veterans is out.

Some might say that cut ducking is the GOP’s Waterloo.

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Jim DeMint, Leader Of The Senate (Thanks To Harry Reid & Co.)

9:35 am EST September 28th, 2010 | Politics | 3 Comments

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Senate Democrats announce their latest legislative victory

I can’t say that I blame Jim DeMint for asserting that he’ll tie up bills if they don’t meet his approval. It’s just formalizing how the senate has been run under Harry Reid anyways. The Reid-led Senate bows to the Republican minority at almost every convenience, why should they stop now?

Give the Republicans some credit: While their agenda is all about undermining America and raiding it for the rich, at least they have the spines to push their agenda unlike the Vichy Democrats.

(And Joe Manchin is here to show us that should he win, he’ll be as spineless and useless as the current crop of Democratic senators)

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Jim DeMint Rewrites History, Erases Last 3 Years Of Bush Presidency

8:18 pm EST August 10th, 2010 | Economy, Republicans | 57 Comments

eraserIt’s as if a Texas school book recommendation came to life!

It’s been four years since President George W. Bush could be held responsible for the nation’s economy, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said Monday evening.

DeMint dismissed a key part of Democrats’ midterm messaging — warning voters against a return to Bush-era policies — reasoning that Democrats have been controlling U.S. economic policies during the past four years in which they’ve controlled Congress.

This is a lot like Republicans trying to claim that they are the ones responsible for the economic boom during the Clinton presidency even though they opposed his economic policies before they took the House in 1994. No doubt when the economy picks up by 2012, we’ll hear about how those Republicans who opposed stimulus or anything else to improve the economy are the ones to thank. Hell, they already slam the stimulus on a Monday then go to a ribbon cutting for a stimulus project on a Tuesday.

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Waterloo?

4:50 pm EST March 21st, 2010 | Politics | 15 Comments

Multiple sources now indicate that the Dems will likely have 216+ votes for health care reform.

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GOP Still Stupid

12:34 pm EST December 14th, 2009 | Republicans | Comments Off

Jim DeMint still – STILL – advocates privatizing social security. Because as last year taught us, what could go wrong with putting our social security in Lehman Brothers?

The Democrats are far from perfect, but unlike the Republicans they aren’t sick, twisted, and dumb on purpose.

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Old Jimmy One Note

7:12 pm EST December 8th, 2009 | News | 16 Comments

As John points out and as any of us who have paid attention for five minutes knows, the GOP answer to everything — everything — is tax cuts. Tax cuts that don’t work. Tax cuts that help dig us into holes.

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