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Why did Jim DeMint bail out of the Senate?

Bugsy McGurk

Bugsy McGurk

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He says he can do "more great things" at the Heritage Foundation, so he's quitting his Senate seat and going there.

Sounds odd though, no?

Is he getting a huge raise?
 
Bugsy McGurk said:
He says he can do "more great things" at the Heritage Foundation, so he's quitting his Senate seat and going there.

Sounds odd though, no?

Is he getting a huge raise?
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he heard about Dick Armey and his 8 million for leaving the Tea Party? Or,do you think he has been walking the Appalchian Trail? He did lose the Tea Party 15 million.
 
His new salary seems to be top secret.

The new mystery is which wackjob will replace him in the Senate....

At any rate, DeMint will head off to the Heritage family, leaving a hole for Nikki Haley to fill in the Senate. The choices look as loco as DeMint. ThinkProgress has a cast of characters that might make us all wish DeMint was back in the saddle. Rep. Joe "You Lie" Wilson is probably the most well-known, but the more likely pick is Rep. Tim Scott, who may possibly be even more insane than DeMint.

Several reports are identifying Scott as DeMint’s preferred choice to replace him, and for good reason: the freshman congressman has already proven to be nearly as extreme as DeMint himself. In 2011, he voted to extend billions of dollars in subsidies to big oil companies, arguing that taxpayer-funded money going to companies that reap billions in profits was “fair.” And during the last fight over the debt ceiling, Scott floated the possibility of introducing articles of impeachment against President Obama. While a State Senator, Scott helped to defund South Carolina’s entire HIV/AIDS programs, including the elimination of the state’s AIDs Drug Assistance Program.

(from crooksandliars.com)
 
Bugsy McGurk said:
His new salary seems to be top secret.

The new mystery is which wackjob will replace him in the Senate....

At any rate, DeMint will head off to the Heritage family, leaving a hole for Nikki Haley to fill in the Senate. The choices look as loco as DeMint. ThinkProgress has a cast of characters that might make us all wish DeMint was back in the saddle. Rep. Joe "You Lie" Wilson is probably the most well-known, but the more likely pick is Rep. Tim Scott, who may possibly be even more insane than DeMint.

Several reports are identifying Scott as DeMint’s preferred choice to replace him, and for good reason: the freshman congressman has already proven to be nearly as extreme as DeMint himself. In 2011, he voted to extend billions of dollars in subsidies to big oil companies, arguing that taxpayer-funded money going to companies that reap billions in profits was “fair.” And during the last fight over the debt ceiling, Scott floated the possibility of introducing articles of impeachment against President Obama. While a State Senator, Scott helped to defund South Carolina’s entire HIV/AIDS programs, including the elimination of the state’s AIDs Drug Assistance Program.

(from crooksandliars.com)
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I would think that if Nikki Haley were to choose such a wild-eyed extremist to replace DeMint, that this would negatively affect whatever chances she might have to run on a national ticket in the future. I hope that consideration enters into her calculus......
 
LeRoy_Was_Here said:
I would think that if Nikki Haley were to choose such a wild-eyed extremist to replace DeMint, that this would negatively affect whatever chances she might have to run on a national ticket in the future. I hope that consideration enters into her calculus......
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If she doesn't put another kook in the Senate seat she would never get nominated by the Pugs. They MUST do crazy things to advance their careers within the GOP.
 
Bugsy McGurk said:
He says he can do "more great things" at the Heritage Foundation, so he's quitting his Senate seat and going there.

Sounds odd though, no?

Is he getting a huge raise?
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Yes...he IS getting a huge raise. Evidently....DeMint isn't one of those Senate millionaires. His most recent disclosure showed his entire net worth at something around $65k. I don't know that he's leaving so's to "cash in", but I can see as how he might!
 
fairsheet said:
Yes...he IS getting a huge raise. Evidently....DeMint isn't one of those Senate millionaires. His most recent disclosure showed his entire net worth at something around $65k. I don't know that he's leaving so's to "cash in", but I can see as how he might!
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Sure seems so - he can't resist cashing in.

It's too bad - the Heritage Foundation came out with some good ideas from time-to-time. That will never happen under DeMint.
 
He said he's doing it because there is a crisis of ideas in modern conservativism. He's right. And Heritage has been one of the think tanks (along with Hoover and Hudson) that have originated the conservative ideas with the most traction (CATO is too wackadoodle to get taken seriously). Whereas in the Senate, he's in the minority party, that just suffered an election defeat and which is losing the political discourse precisely becuse the current set of conservative ideas have been discreditted.

He's doing the smart thing. Jumping into a life boat right after the ship hit the iceberg, long before anyone realizes that water is flooding the ship.
 
degsme said:
He said he's doing it because there is a crisis of ideas in modern conservativism. He's right. And Heritage has been one of the think tanks (along with Hoover and Hudson) that have originated the conservative ideas with the most traction (CATO is too wackadoodle to get taken seriously). Whereas in the Senate, he's in the minority party, that just suffered an election defeat and which is losing the political discourse precisely becuse the current set of conservative ideas have been discreditted.

He's doing the smart thing. Jumping into a life boat right after the ship hit the iceberg, long before anyone realizes that water is flooding the ship.
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You suggest very noble motivations but I suspect it's much simpler and more craven...

Ka-ching!
 
Nah - Demint could have made a mint going to some consulting firm. He's making a lot but not that much. This guy really thinks he's got ideas to sell to the public.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if someone threatened to out him as a homosexual.

He's probably one of those "wide stance" Republicans.
 
For the money. Also,in his 8 years in the Senate he has been in the minority for 6 years and ended up in a minority within the minority. He is in large part responsible for big GOP losses in the Senate in 2010 and 2012 also.
 
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