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cal04

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Thu Sep-16-10 08:16 PM
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DeMint Says Goal is Gridlock

Edited on Thu Sep-16-10 08:27 PM by cal04

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/16/demint-complete-gridlock/

Last summer, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) offered a quote that symbolized the GOP’s strategy of reflexive opposition to the President. “If we’re able to stop Obama on this , it will be his Waterloo. It will break him,” he said. DeMint was clear that his strategy was purely political. “If we stop him on health care,” he said, “then I think we have the opportunity to maybe realign the whole political system in our country.” Fortunately, DeMint didn’t get his way and 32 million more Americans will soon have health care.

But due to his successful efforts to help drive tea party senatorial candidates like Christine O’Donnell, Pat Toomey, and Marco Rubio to victory over establishment candidates, DeMint is emboldened. He told Bloomberg that he hopes his new contingent of “DeMint disciples” will help him produce his goal of “complete gridlock”:

DeMint, 59, doesn’t care. He tells Bloomberg Businessweek “the best thing that could happen for business is complete gridlock” and that he wants to stop programs that violate his anti-Big Government ideology.

“What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator,” he says, taking a quick break between TV appearances. “People want an alternative to some kind of watered-down Republican philosophy.”

DeMint told reporters yesterday that so-called moderates are the scourge of his party. “I think what happens is when we have a few that vote with the Obama agenda, it defines the whole Republican Party,” DeMint said. “I don’t want the majority back if we don’t believe anything,” DeMint said on Fox News this week.

DeMint’s potentially powerful new bloc of supporters may pose a leadership challenge for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Tellingly, this morning on the Today Show, DeMint couldn’t even remember his leader’s name. “Well, I like our current leadership,” he said. “Mitch – um, um . Um – Mitch is doing a great job.”

Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/16/demint-complete-gridlock/

Jim DeMint's Path to Power
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_39/b4196031953733.htm?chan=magazine+channel_news+-+politics+%2B+policy

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Ozymanithrax

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Thu Sep-16-10 08:18 PM
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1. Seig DeMint...Seig DeMint...Seig DeMint n/t

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Thu Sep-16-10 08:21 PM
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2. DeMented is KILLING THE GOP

Edited on Thu Sep-16-10 08:21 PM by opihimoimoi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDRBLtgAK-U&feature=related

Happy Days are Here Again Thanks to DeMented, Hannity, Beck, AZrmey, Palin, and the lot of nutty Baggers

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Thu Sep-16-10 08:28 PM
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3. Fifty-nine Americans and 41 Republicans in the United States Senate.

DeMint should become an American citizen.

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Thu Sep-16-10 09:15 PM
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4. That's what the tea partiers are selling

"Stop Obama". On the Rethug side, they've always been in the market for that, we'll see what the demand is for the folks in the mushy middle...

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derby378

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Thu Sep-16-10 09:17 PM
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5. He's lying - if government is gridlocked, it can't bust unions anymore

And since DeMinted loves busting up unions more than anything, well...

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cal04

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Thu Sep-16-10 09:47 PM
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6. Updated: Lisa Lerer has changed the quote that she originally attributed to DeMint.

Update Bloomberg's Lisa Lerer has changed the quote that she originally attributed to DeMint. The story now notes that DeMint was characterizing what business leaders have told him.

Update A spokesperson for DeMint reached out to ThinkProgress and provided the following statement: "The story about 'gridlock' was a glimpse of how upset businesses are with President Obama and Democrats in Congress, not DeMint's legislative goals."

DeMint: Businesses Tell Me ‘The Best Thing’ Would Be ‘Complete Gridlock’ (Updated)
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/16/demint-complete-gridlock/

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