Topic: Jim DeMint resigns to head Heritage Foundation

[Pandora]

RATS!!!

No link yet; just heard it on the "news" and Beck is discussing.

[AmericanPatriot]

That sucks

[Pandora]

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/12/breaking-news-sen-jim-demint-r-s-c-resigns-from-the-u-s-senate/

[Glock32]

Another one: http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/12/06/breaking-sen-jim-demint-resigns-will-head-the-heritage-foundation/

Note the article made a big deal out of the possibility of SC's Indian-American governor appointing a black Republican to take over DeMint's seat. As long as the GOP stays stuck in that "hey look, we've got one too!" mindset they are hopeless.

I also take DeMint's resignation as a sign that he is acknowledging the political avenue is shut down for the foreseeable future. He would not leave the Senate if he thought he could accomplish things there.  Taking over the Heritage Foundation is basically an acknowledgment that the battle is in the culture now, which is where it should have always been anyway.

[charlesoakwood]

Absolutely, it was recently discussed here that the next shoe would be political leadership, as with flag officers, began to leave.

[charlesoakwood]

He's being interviewed by Rush right now.

[Pandora]

Listening .......

[Pandora]

"Harry Reid is a good friend" of his, says DeMint?!  ::boggle::

[John Florida]

  I think I'm going to be sick!!!

[charlesoakwood]

He's already pricked them.  A spokesman for the senate just remarked he "wished DeMint would read the bill before he spoke" because this POS proposed is really a good spending? bill.

[Glock32]

Yeah we tried suggesting they read bills before they enact them into law, too.

[Pandora]

That is an arcane, time-wasting and extremely difficult endeavor, according to John Conyers --

"‘Read the bill, read the bill’.... ” “What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you’ve read the bill?”

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/29/read-the-bill-congressmen/#ixzz2EISmYOU8


And he had/s absolutely no idea to what he'd just confessed about congressional sausage-making.

[ChrstnHsbndFthr]

http://www.redstate.com/2012/12/06/two-roads-diverged-jim-demint-leaves-u-s-senate-for-heritage-foundation-presidency/

[IronDioPriest]

Things seemed so much more hopeful after 2010.

[Predator Don]

Things seemed so much more hopeful after 2010.

yep...what the hell happened. It's as if 2010 didn't exist.

Demint can help conservatives at Heritage more than in the senate. At least I hope so.

[charlesoakwood]

"He would not leave the Senate if he thought he could accomplish things there.  Taking over the Heritage Foundation is basically an acknowledgment that the battle is in the culture now, which is where it should have always been anyway."

Maybe he's taking a cue from Breitbart.

And reinforcing Breitbart and our fears:

Jonathan Chait: Why Yes, Liberals Do Competely Control The Media, And They Use It, Very Successfully, To Advance Their Political Agenda
—Ace

[Glock32]

"He would not leave the Senate if he thought he could accomplish things there.  Taking over the Heritage Foundation is basically an acknowledgment that the battle is in the culture now, which is where it should have always been anyway."

Maybe he's taking a cue from Breitbart.

And reinforcing Breitbart and our fears:

Jonathan Chait: Why Yes, Liberals Do Competely Control The Media, And They Use It, Very Successfully, To Advance Their Political Agenda
—Ace

Oleg Atbashian over at The People's Cube, himself a former agitprop artist in the Soviet Union, characterizes this state of affairs as "the professional Left versus the amateur Right". He is so correct in that assessment.

Conservatives have been so...for lack of a better term...one dimensional in their personal pursuits (i.e. business, private sector) that they effectively ceded academia and the bureaucracy to the Left. The Left has in turn leveraged their virtual monopoly in those areas to their full advantage. To be frank, we've been getting our asses kicked for decades. Probably the biggest reason for that is that our side won't unanimously acknowledge that there is even such a thing as a Culture War afoot.

[LadyVirginia]

To be frank, we've been getting our asses kicked for decades.

yep.

there are too many that while they're not "Left" they're not "Right" either.  I think of some of my husband's family who think that being nice and paying your taxes and going to work everyday is going to cut it.



NO ONE wants to think they've contributed to the decline of culture.  It's the other people who did.

We can't make progress until we all say we messed up!

[John Florida]

Things seemed so much more hopeful after 2010.

  Till the establishment repubs decided to flush it down the crapper.