Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
? IL-Sen : South Carolina's Jim DeMint is rapidly turning into the hard right's kingmaker . DeMint has been considering offering his endorsement to Patrick Hughes, a real estate developer who's become the teabagger of choice in the Illinois Senate primary, and Hughes has been buttering DeMint up. And this might help along DeMint's decision: a straw poll on DeMint's website asked who he should endorse...
Patriot Room (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
We need to peel off one Democrat to kill this thing. For those of you glued to your laptops when the abortion known as PelosiCare was passed a couple of weeks ago, this Saturday's fight in the Senate will consist of 10 hours of debate, which were won by Republicans in return for their not having the entire bill read on the floor. According to Roll Call (subscription required, but the snippet is there),...
Shakespeare's Sister (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
CNN : A handful of Republican senators have proposed a constitutional amendment to limit how long a person may serve in Congress. Currently, there are no term limits for federal lawmakers, but Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, and several of his colleagues are advocating that service in the Senate be limited to 12 years, while lawmakers would only be allowed to serve six years in the House. "Americans...
lockandload (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
CAIR gets slapped down. Oh Yeah. FROM MYPETJAWA.MU.NU: October 28, 2009 CAIR official disrupts free speech conference, ejected by Capitol Hill police An intern for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was ejected today from a conference held at the US Capitol Visitors Center Congressional Auditorium after behaving in a threatening manner and repeatedly violating conference rules by attempting...
Say Anything (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
A while back Senator Jim DeMint came back from Honduras and wrote that the only person in that country who wants to see the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya is Obama’s appointed ambassador to the country. Now the Congressional Law Library, having reviewed the legalities of Zealaya’s ouster at the hands of the nation’s courts, legislature and military, has declared his removal...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard. The U.S. Senate, following the lead of the House earlier this month, passed the Matthew Shepard—James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act late yesterday. The measure, an amendment to a necessary military-spending bill, expands federal hate-crime laws to include sexual orientation, gender, sexual identity, and disability. Named after the gay University of...
konagod (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Finally, Hate Crimes legislation passes, although somewhat stealthily. The measure, attached to an essential military-spending bill, broadens the definition of federal hate crimes to include those committed because of a victim’s gender or gender identity, or sexual orientation. It gives victims the same federal safeguards already afforded to people who are victims of violent crimes because of...
Rod 2.0:Beta (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint can barely contain his "hate" at the Hate Crimes Bill attached to the conference report for 2010 Department of Defense authorization. The anti-gay conservative says: "Hate crimes legislation has nothing to do with the...
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
? FL-Sen : Marco Rubio continues to rack up goodwill among the far right, pulling in an endorsement from Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe. Rubio has already gotten a Jim DeMint endorsement; can Tom Coburn be far behind? ? LA-Sen : Southern Media and Opinion Research has a poll (conducted on behalf of local businessman Lane Grigsby, a big Republican donor -- you might remember he personally dumped a ton...
Religion Clause (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
A letter to the editor published in Sunday's Orangeburg (SC) Times and Democrat from the chairmen of two South Carolina County Republican Party organizations reflects, at the very least, insensitivity to the anti-Semitic nature of comparisons they draw. Defending South Carolina U.S. Senator Jim DeMint's opposition to earmarks in budget bills, Bamberg County chairman Edwin O. Merwin Jr. and Orangeburg...
Hoffmania! (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Hey - they mean that in a good way. Y'all know what they mean. Pinching pennies is now a commendable thing. Just like them wealthy Jews. Two Republican party chairmen from South Carolina, in trying to defend Sen. Jim DeMint's...
Daisy's Dead Air (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Senator Lindsey Graham during a town hall meeting at Furman University in Greenville, October 12, 2009. Photo by Patrick Collard of the Greenville News . I didn't get the chance to attend Lindsey Graham's raucous town hall meeting, since I was working late Monday night. But the right wing of his party showed up, solidifying those reasons why South Carolina Democrats rarely challenge him. The upstate...
Exposing Liberal Lies (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Want to know what's really going on in the Honduran election controversy? Senator Jim DeMint traveled to Honduras to find out for himself. As usual, Obama and his minions are full of it. What else would we expect from an Administration who cozies up to the evil regimes worldwide? Read from Hot Air : DeMint: What I heard in Honduras "While the White House and the State Department continue to insist...
Ken Hawkins (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Summary: United States Senator Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican, formally announced his plans to run for a second term. Link: http://thedigitel.com/node/6602
This Ain't Hell (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
South Carolina’s Senator Jim DeMint went on a fact-finding trip to Honduras despite John Kerry’s opposition and writes about it today in the Wall Street Journal; In a day packed with meetings, we met only one person in Honduras who opposed Mr. Zelaya’s ouster, who wishes his return, and who mystifyingly rejects the legitimacy of the [...]
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