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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 11:46 AM
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"...it’s as if Jim DeMint has suffered some kind of head trauma..."
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_08/demint_calls_administration_an031460.php

August 11, 2011 11:20 AM
DeMint calls administration ‘anti-American’

By Steve Benen


Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) shared his unique take on the Obama administration yesterday.

“We saw within a few days that this President was going to be heavy-handed, he was going to implement his agenda and pay back his political allies, and it just went on from there to ObamaCare and then to Dodd-Frank. It has been the most anti-business and I consider anti-American administration in my lifetime.

“Things that are just so anathema to the principles of freedom, and everything he has come up with centralizes more power in Washington, creates more socialist-style, collectivist policies. This president is doing something that’s so far out of the realm of anything Republicans ever did wrong, it’s hard to even imagine.”


Honestly, it’s as if Jim DeMint has suffered some kind of head trauma, which prevents him from perceiving reality. None of his condemnation makes any sense at all; the entire comment is just twisted.

But I’m also struck by how strangely routine this seems. Here we have an influential sitting senator, who has no qualms accusing an administration governing in a time of crisis as “anti-American.” And yet, it seems highly unlikely to me that this will become a scandal. Given Republican excesses, this is almost routine.

I’m trying to imagine a comparable scenario. What if, in 2003, then-Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) had called the Bush administration “anti-American”? Would this be dismissed as everyday political rhetoric, or would there be pressure on him to apologize? Would the media blow it off, or would Fox News use this as evidence of deranged Democrats going after a sitting president in an unhinged way?
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 11:53 AM
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1. Between the bullshit on this site about everything Obama does (housing initiatives, vacationing,
breathing, etc.) and the RW looneys who call him anti-American, some days I just don't even want to get on the internets or watch the news.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 11:55 AM
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2. ...breathing...!!
:D Silly season all the way around. :hug:
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 11:58 AM
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3. Yep..
:hug:
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CakeGrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 12:05 PM
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5. It is the craziest I've ever seen.
The political poles say he's the worst 'whatever'.

He must be doing something right. Of course, he plays for the long game, so the hyperbolic outrages will continue.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 12:09 PM
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6. He's the most soshulist corporate-sellout fascist communist capitalist pig EVAH!!11!1
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okieinpain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 03:00 PM
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18. man you said it all in one sentence. n/t.
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 12:36 PM
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10. I hear he breathes out of his right nostril
80 percent of the time. ;)
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JNinWB Donating Member (190 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 12:39 PM
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12. Maybe DeMint is a forum member

Sounds like it anyway.
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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 12:01 PM
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4. There's a whole clown-car full of (R)s who seem to have suffered head trauma.
Why only pick on poor Jim Demented?
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libodem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 12:14 PM
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7. That's goog
De Ment.
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BackToThe60s Donating Member (266 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 02:55 PM
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17. Yes, a veritible plethora of lunacy
:rofl:
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 12:15 PM
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8. Dick Durbin would already be on the Senate floor crying an apology
Had he said that in 2002 about the Bush Administration.

But seriously, we are a nation at war with troops in the field and there must be no criticism of the commander in chief, as that plays into the hands of the enemy.
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Cosmocat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 12:19 PM
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9. That went out the door in January of 2009 ...
I knew that the moment the election was called.

The get out of jail free/everything you want has to do with national security card expired when Bush walked out of the White House.
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 12:39 PM
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11. Good article. What can't they get away with saying about
Edited on Thu Aug-11-11 12:41 PM by mzmolly
our President? :(

The "anti-American" who took out Bin Laden. Such an interesting contrast.
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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 12:53 PM
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13. why can't Benen just say DeMint is lying?
which he obviously is.

It's a big coordinated lie which has been pounded away at daily on talk radio since before Obama was elected.
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 02:09 PM
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14. "He wasn't dropped on his head as a baby -- he was thrown."
Didn't somebody say that about DeMint?
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politicasista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 02:15 PM
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15. This dude is the problem, or part of it
We should be attacking people like this bum more rather than eating our own.
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 02:49 PM
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16. The Bush Administration was anti-American
These criminals stole the 2000 election, took the nation to war based on lies and promoted crony capitalism. That's just before the end of 2003.

Yes, Senator DeMint's remarks are excessive and this is routine coming from a Republican, especially one aligned with the teabaggers. DeMint, of course, suffers from the same kind of head condition that plagues most right wing morons: his head is empty.
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