DeMint defeats Beasley in GOP Senate runoff

JENNIFER HOLLAND
Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Three-term U.S. Rep. Jim DeMint showed he was a strong contender in the race for U.S. Senate after he emerged from relative obscurity to win the Republican nomination over the well-known ex-Gov. David Beasley.

DeMint overwhelmingly beat Beasley in Tuesday's runoff to earn a spot on the November ballot for a Senate seat that has been occupied by Democratic Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings for almost 40 years.

The Greenville native told The Associated Press that voters selected him because he has "specific solutions for the problems we're facing."

Voters who returned to the polls picked DeMint 59 percent to 41 percent over Beasley in unofficial results. DeMint received 153,947 votes to Beasley's 106,113.

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The Carolinas aren't in much mood for free traders at the moment. We should be keen to win over right-populist Republicans concerned with "America first." Tenenbaum and Bowles can win both races if they engage the proper strategy. Edwards on the ticket would be helpful in this regard.

Read this piece of crap. This was filed by DeMint and 11 other GOP congressmen. If you want to look it up, its HR 3920, but here is the full text. (Of course they realize that it is patently unconstitutional and could never pass, but it allows them to go back home to Bubba and tell him what they're doing to keep "under God" in our pledge of allegiance):

A BILL
To allow Congress to reverse the judgments of the United States Supreme Court.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Congressional Accountability for Judicial Activism Act of 2004'.

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL REVERSAL OF SUPREME COURT JUDGMENTS.

The Congress may, if two thirds of each House agree, reverse a judgment of the United States Supreme Court--

(1) if that judgment is handed down after the date of the enactment of this Act; and

(2) to the extent that judgment concerns the constitutionality of an Act of Congress.

SEC. 3. PROCEDURE.

The procedure for reversing a judgment under section 2 shall be, as near as may be and consistent with the authority of each House of Congress to adopt its own rules of proceeding, the same as that used for considering whether or not to override a veto of legislation by the President.

SEC. 4. BASIS FOR ENACTMENT.

This Act is enacted pursuant to the power of Congress under article III, section 2, of the Constitution of the United States.