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• Is DeMint channeling Tillman in fight against Dems

  —The Politics of Jamie Sanderson

  Are the people of South Carolina paying much attention? Do they realize what their "esteemed" Jim DeMint is up to? Do they realize he's actually morphing into Ben "Pitchfork" Tillman?
  
  DeMint is proving to be nothing more than a comical puppet for the extreme wing for the remnants of [...]

  Posted: December 05, 2009, 6:18pm EST
  

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• Let's go ask DeMint about Aetna dropping 650,000 policy holders

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  h/t Jamie Sanderson:
  
  
  HEALTH CARE REFORM RALLYTuesday December 8th 12 NoonIn Front of the office of Senator Jim DeMint
  CUSTOM HOUSE 200 East Bay St. Charleston
  Also rallies same day and time in Columbia and Greenville:
  Columbia: 1901 Main St.
  Greenville: 105 North Spring St.
  Patrick [...]

  Posted: December 05, 2009, 5:24pm EST
  

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• Health Care Reform Rallies being held December 8th

  —The Politics of Jamie Sanderson

  HEALTH CARE REFORM RALLY Tuesday December 8th 12 Noon In Front of the office of Senator Jim DeMint
  

  CUSTOM HOUSE 200 East Bay St. Charleston

  Also rallies same day and time in Columbia and Greenville:

  Columbia: 1901 Main St.

  Greenville: 105 North Spring St.

  Patrick C. Labbe RN [...]

  Posted: December 05, 2009, 3:38pm EST
  

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• Ruckes says McGowan is anti-choice

  —The Politics of Jamie Sanderson

  More from Mike Ruckes:
  
  Chad McGowan wants to carry the Democratic Banner against Jim DeMint but does not support Democratic Values. McGowan is just another Republican running as a Democrat. South Carolina doesn't need a Republican clone but a real Democrat.
  McGowan on a woman's right to choose...ONLY' [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:49pm EST
  

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• DeMint: we make air travel safe by hiring the dumbest people on the planet.

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Senator Jim DeMint has dropped an old meme into his "blog": a press release referring to himself in the third person, which tells you how much DeMint pays attention to his "blog", claiming- as he has before- that US labor unions are companions in arms with terrorists and that [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:43am EST
  

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• DeMint: another vote that's not about South Carolina.

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  
  
  I will oppose Bernankeand hold his nomination until we get a vote to audit the Fed.about 2 hours ago from web
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 6:54pm EST
  

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• DeMint to block Bernanke nomination

  —The Palmetto Scoop

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  SENATOR WILL OPPOSE FED CHAIR’S CONFIRMATION UNLESS FED IS AUDITED

  South Carolina’s junior U.S. Senator will oppose the nomination of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke unless Congress votes to audit nation’s the central banking system.

  Sen. Jim DeMint announced his intent to block Bernanke [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 3:16pm EST
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• So what would Jim DeMint do for $10 million?

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Palmetto Morning has two Jim DeMint vignettes that ought to concern any supporter with a semblance of a conscience:
  
  
  Categories: Health CareDeMint: Wish I'd thought of 'You lie!'My colleague Kenneth Vogel writes in from tonight's gathering of tea party activists in Washington for the premiere of' [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:59am EST
  

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• It's not data mining when you do it for freedom

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  The SC GOP wants us all to help Senator Jim DeMint salve his hurt feelings by signing a "Get More Reactionary, Jim," card:
  
  
  Will you say Thank You to Senator Jim DeMint?Blog
  Written by admin on December 2nd, 2009 | [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 6:14pm EST
  

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• Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Gresham Barrett's pod finally opens

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  
  
  
  
  
  The Greenville News:
  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) announced two staff changes. Luke Byars, his long-time State Director, will become the campaign manager for Gresham Barrett's gubernatorial campaign on December 15th. Ellen Weaver, who has worked for [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 9:47pm EST
  

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• Barrett hires campaign manager

  —S.C. Politics Today

  U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett, has hired Luke Byars, a Spartanburg native, to head Barrett's run for governor.

  Byars has served as U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint's state director and has run numerous S.C. campaigns including Dole/Kemp in 1996.

  Nationally, Byars served as a deputry director for the Republican National Committee. 

  “There [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 2:42pm EST
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• Jim DeMint's banana republic whitewashes a military coup.

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  The Economist:
  
  
  
  THE members of a conservative coalition behind the toppling of Manuel Zelaya as president of Honduras, on June 28th, have since been betting that presidential elections would serve to legitimise their military coup. Despite intense pressure from abroad, the de facto regime that has [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:59pm EST
  

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• Good News and Bad News for Jim DeMint

  —Indigo Journal

  Jim DeMint, we've got good news and bad news.

  First the good news...

  
  

  The Tea Party folks just love you.  Really!  Politico said you were a "rock star. Unemployment might be at double-digits in SC, but we understand.  Your new found celebrity has got you busy criss-crossing the'" [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:48pm EST
  

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• The ultimate family values idea, and DeMint's nowhere to be seen. WTF?

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Surely this is a bandwagon Senator Jim DeMint will want to get in front of: a straight, married, Catholic father in California says Prop 8- banning marriage equality- didn't go far enough.
  
  If the vows say till death do you part, then he says, let's ban divorce. And' [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:17pm EST
  

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• McGowan responds to DeMint's remarks

  —The Politics of Jamie Sanderson

  From the McGowan campaign:
  
  Democratic Candidate for United States Senate Chad McGowan today released the following statement on Senator Jim DeMint's admission that he's more interested in advancing conservative goals nationwide than he is in representing the interests of South Carolina.

  "Having watched Senator DeMint over the years," [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:57pm EST
  

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• Jim DeMint's Super Adventure Club test-drives hate legislation in Africa

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Terry Gross of NPR's Fresh Air has a long interview with Jeff Sharlet, author of a book about The Family, the secretive Christianist group whose "church" has provided a home for right-wing members of Congress for decades:
  And of course that doesn't happen. So by the 1940s, they begin' [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:47am EST
  

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• In South Carolina, veterans who fought for your 'freedom' have none

  —The Politics of Jamie Sanderson

  A sad story today was published in The Sun News about a veteran who took his life because he was denied health care. A veteran who gave his all to this country and fought for the such "freedoms" U.S. Senator Jim DeMint uses sarcastically in his e-mail blasts. No, [...]

  Posted: November 29, 2009, 10:31am EST
  

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• Itsy bitsy king maker

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  
  
  For all the press given to Senator Jim DeMint's plan to become the Republican Party's Savonarola (move over, Cassidy), it must be noted he is at best a pygmy kingmaker. For all his gyrations, DeMint has only raised $1.45m from the entire country for this [...]

  Posted: November 29, 2009, 8:57am EST
  

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• DeMint: vote for me again so I can screw you for six more years. But only for your own good.

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  SC Senator Jim DeMint reinforces his point that South Carolinians are mistaken expecting him to take any interest in the needs of South Carolinians.  He's busy hanging out with wingnuts like redstate.com's Erik Erickson- formerly paymaster to apostate Boy Fogle:
  
  DeMint, 58, makes no bones that' [...]

  Posted: November 29, 2009, 12:40am EST
  

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• DeMint: Americans who belong to unions are terrorist sympathizers just waiting to crawl out from under their rocks

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  The Washington Times: 
  Sen. Jim DeMint has locked a "hold" on President Obama's pick to head the Transportation Security Administration over concerns the nominee would undermine safety by allowing airport security screeners to unionize, the latest in a series of appointments stymied by Republican objections that [...]

  Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:11pm EST
  

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• Some more of the hot new ideas from the GOP: a pure conservative party is an all-white party.

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Another snapshot of Jim DeMint's SC GOP, oars beating ceaselessly back to its lily-white past:
  Here in South Carolina, Mr. Graham’s vote to confirm Justice Sonia Sotomayor to theSupreme Court, among other positions, has cost him the [...]

  Posted: November 28, 2009, 5:41pm EST
  

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• Quit being lazy and get on the hustle

  —Wesley Donehue

  

  Don’t even try McDonald’s for a strawberry milkshake. They are having a string of mechanical errors. Or they’re just lazy as all get out.

  Check out [www.scsenategop.com] Version 2.

  Sign Senator Jim DeMint’s term limits petition at www.jimdemint.com.

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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:21pm EST
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• The New White People's Manifesto, or Jim DeMint's 30 Senator Strategy Refined.

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  RNC member James Bopp, who's busy litigating against marriage equality when not busy purifying the Republican Party, has a new draft catechism out:
  
  
  "THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee identifies ten (10) key public policy positions for the 2010 election cycle, which the'" [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:43pm EST
  

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• Twenty senators would be even purer. DeMint and Olympia Snowe would reach the magical 99 & 44/100%

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  SC Senator Jim DeMint is muscling his way into a vacuum created by the National Republican Senate Committee's decision not to pick sides in GOP Senate primaries, Politico reports.
  
  DeMint's thirty senator GOP caucus strategy seems to be building steam under the aegis [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:24pm EST
  

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• Graham and DeMint: scared to debate health care reform on the merits

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  This is the sort of stuff Senators Jim DeMint and Lindsey Graham are so afraid of you finding out that they will vote later today to prevent even debating health care reform (h/t Micah Snead):
  
  
  
  Speaking of Page Numbers...Posted by Dan Pfeiffer on November 20, 2009 at 11:30 [...]

  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:23am EST
  

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• Jim DeMint's welcome to Boeing: I want to bug your cockpits.

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Wall Street Journal:
  
  
  Sen. Jim DeMint, a Republican from South Carolina, plans to introduce a bill that would break a taboo in the airline industry: allowing airlines to use information from cockpit voice recorders in cases against pilots they want to discipline or fire.Current labor contracts effectively [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:37pm EST
  

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• DeMint: term limits for thee, but not for me till way later

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  Senator Jim DeMint has a Facebook page for his term limits brainwave, which wouldn't apply to him for at least seven more years. The photo of the Capitol features the House side (subliminal message: "Pelosi, liberal, San Francisco, gays, taxes...").
  
  Senator DeMint already has term limits available:
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:01pm EST
  

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• "O, God, guide and strengthen your servant Jim as he leads his party to such a level of purity and density that they become as a black hole in deepest space. Amen"

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  Palmetto Morning:
  
  CUTTING OFF THE NOSE — “GOP voters are more likely to agree with Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) than with those who say they want to broaden the party, according to a new poll.  The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey shows 51% of GOP voters would prefer a candidate [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:20pm EST
  

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• Start hoarding gold

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  SC Senator Jim DeMint has linked up with Congressman Ron Paul to go on about Paul's Federal Reserve fantasies. Of course, when you sign on with Paul you also get his more subterranean racist and homophobic urges as well, and all the racists and Birchers who trail in his [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:19am EST
  

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• DeMint's little elves tell a broader story about what his pink slips mean

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  SC Senator Jim DeMint's been on Fox News explaining the "pink slip" campaign he's managed to catch up to and claim to head:
  
  
  
  VAN SUSTEREN: Senator, nice to see you, sir.SEN. JIM DEMINT, R - S.C.: Greta, welcome to my place.VAN SUSTEREN: Indeed. I see you have some pink slips. [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:14am EST
  

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