What's The Real Reason, Jim?

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07 Dec 2012, 12:08 am

Jim DeMint has announced he is resigning from the Senate in order to head up the far right Hermitage Foundation. To many us, I think, that sounds more like a phoney excuse. So, what's your theory of why the senator is leaving all of a sudden?

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07 Dec 2012, 12:17 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

All he can do in the Senate is lose. He may as well head up a think tank.

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07 Dec 2012, 1:09 am

If this is typical politics, he probably got offered more money to take over the Heritage Foundation and/or someone his enough dirt on him to force him out.

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07 Dec 2012, 1:49 am

Neocons are purging out or trying to marginalize the conservatives within the GOP so I guess DeMint thought he won't be able to accomplish much. Very convenient for Lindsay Graham tho who was looking like he'd face a tough primary.

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07 Dec 2012, 2:09 am

It's a better paying job where he can have more of an impact on policy than he could with his single vote. Once he's out of office, he can spend his time as a lobbiest, pushing his agenda much more effectively than he ever could as an elected official.

I don't think there's much more to it then that.

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07 Dec 2012, 10:49 am

PM wrote:

If this is typical politics, he probably got offered more money to take over the Heritage Foundation and/or someone has enough dirt on him to force him out.

Which is unlikely since South Carolina is a deep red state and becoming the head of the Heritage Foundation isn't exactly a low profile role. The GOP establishment are cracking down on dissent with in the party and DeMint was likely to be marginalized in what he could do. He has been saying for awhile that he wasn't going to run for reelection in 2016. Now he probably gets paid more money to push candidates and policy which is what he mainly did as a senator anyways now without being accountable to the RNC.

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07 Dec 2012, 12:51 pm

Hooray ! The reason is irrelevant.

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07 Dec 2012, 1:40 pm

Jim DeMint is against a minimum wage.

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08 Dec 2012, 10:28 am

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ ... story.html

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At first blush, there is something delightfully dada about Jim DeMint being named president of the Heritage Foundation.

The senator, a tea party hero from South Carolina, is a smart guy and a good politician. But running a think tank? It is the scholarly equivalent of appointing Michael Moore to head the Brookings Institution, or Ted Nugent to the Cato Institute, or Roseanne Barr to the Council on Foreign Relations, or perhaps Donald Trump to the American Enterprise Institute.

But think about it some more and the choice of DeMint begins to look brilliant. He is, arguably, the perfect candidate to run a post-thought think tank.....

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12 Dec 2012, 7:09 am

oh dear. for some strange reason i though this thread was about Star Trek.... Dammit Jim!

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12 Dec 2012, 8:44 am

Conservative commentator Stephen T. Colbert is in the running for the senate seat.

http://www.businessinsider.com/stephen- ... tt-2012-12

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12 Dec 2012, 12:07 pm

verlorenModus wrote:

oh dear. for some strange reason i though this thread was about Star Trek.... Dammit Jim!

Sorry, I'm the guy who started the thread.

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12 Dec 2012, 12:17 pm

To answer your question Star Trek style: I'm fed doc. As in I'm fed up.

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12 Dec 2012, 3:32 pm

I'd get off a sinking ship before it sinks.

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12 Dec 2012, 3:35 pm

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I'd get off a sinking ship before it sinks.

So would I. The Republicans will not be able to do much in the Senate except to slow down the Democrats a bit.

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