Senator Jim DeMint resigns from Senate, will lead Heritage Foundation

[scott]

Interesting!

[boutons_deux]

More proof that the Heritage Foundation is independent, fair & balanced think tank with the 99%'s best interests as its priority, and is not a tool of the VRWC.

Repugs must know that they can elect a more extremely demented than demint.

[scott]

The headline could also read...

RT daveweigel: Man who endorsed Romneycare in 2007 to lead think tank that inspired Romneycare.

[CosmicCowboy]

It IS interesting. Doesn't seem like an upward move.

[Drachen]

lol

[scott]

It IS interesting. Doesn't seem like an upward move.

Well, not unless you consider the paychecks.

[coyotes_geek]

It IS interesting. Doesn't seem like an upward move.

More money. Less bullshit to deal with. Looks like a great career move to me.

[scott]

@gzornick: Jim DeMint was the fourth-poorest member of the Senate, with a maximum net worth of $65,000 in 2010. http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/overview.php?type=W&year=2010&filter=S&sort=A

@TheFix: Ed Feulner (Heritage president) made almost $1.1 million in 2010. So, there's that.

[CosmicCowboy]

Yeah, checking his financial disclosures he isn't one of the rich ones. Probably a good financial move and it can't be much fun being in the minority in this senate.

[boutons_deux]

being in the Senate is a much higher platform for his extreme right-wing/Confederate bitchings and can cause much more mischief than being buried in a stink tank. but, as dubya said, He's Gotta Put Food On His Family

[boutons_deux]

Why did Sen. Jim DeMint quit the Senate?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2012/1206/Why-did-Sen.-Jim-DeMint-quit-the-Senate?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fcsm+%28Christian+Scie nce+Monitor+|+All+Stories%29

An article full of bullshit, quoted LIES by Repugs and conservatives.

[boutons_deux]

Meet Sen. Tim Scott (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/17/1312201/senator-tim-scott/)

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/tim-scott-16x9-e1355178610722.jpg


Here’s a quick look at Scott’s record:




Floated impeaching Obama over the debt ceiling. As the debt ceiling debate raged in the summer of 2011 because of the intransigence of Tea Party freshmen like Scott, the nation inched perilously close to defaulting on its obligations. One option discussed by some officials to avoid that scenario was for the president to assert that the debt ceiling itself was an unconstitutional infringement (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/07/19/272524/clinton-14th-debt-ceiling/) on the 14th Amendment. However, Tim Scott told (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/06/tim-scott-impeachment-obama-14-amendment-debt_n_891521.html) a South Carolina Tea Party group that if Obama were to go this route, it would be an “impeachable act.”
Proposed a bill to cut off food stamps for entire families if one member went on strike. One of the most anti-union members of Congress, Scott proposed (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/03/23/152559/buried-provision-food-stamps/) a bill two months after entering Congress in 2011 to kick families off food stamps if one adult were participating in a strike. Scott’s legislation made no exception for children or other dependents.
Wanted to spend an unlimited amount of money to display Ten Commandments outside county building. When Scott was on the Charleston County Council, one of his primary issues was displaying the Ten Commandments outside the Council building. According to the Augusta Chronicle, Scott said (http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1998/08/16/met_236165.shtml) the display “would remind council members and speakers the moral absolutes they should follow.” When he was sued for violating the Constitution and a Circuit Judge’s orders, Scott was nonplussed: “Whatever it costs in the pursuit of this goal (of displaying the Commandments) is worth it.”
Defended fairness of giving billions in subsidies to Big Oil. Scott and his Republican allies in Congress voted (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/03/01/147597/house-gop-oil-subsidies/) repeatedly (http://democrats.naturalresources.house.gov/press-release/republicans-side-big-oil-reject-53-billion-taxpayer-savings) last year to protect more than $50 billion in taxpayer subsidies for Big Oil corporations. When ThinkProgress asked (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/05/09/164643/tim-scott-oil-subsidies/) Scott whether it was fair to do that, especially at a time when oil companies are earning tens of billions in profit every quarter, the Tea Party freshman defended the industry: “fair is a relative word,” said Scott.
Helped slash South Carolina’s HIV/AIDS budget. As a state representative, Scott backed (http://rodonline.typepad.com/rodonline/2010/06/antigay-black-republican-tim-scott-poised-wins-sc01-primary.html) a proposal to cut the state’s entire HIV/AIDS budget, despite the fact that South Carolina ranks in the top-third (http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/stateprofiles/pdf/South_Carolina_profile.pdf) of reported AIDS cases. The cuts were ultimately included in the state’s budget, impacting more than 2,000 HIV-positive South Carolinians who needed help paying for their medication.


http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/17/1312201/senator-tim-scott/