Sen. Jim DeMint is a Republican from South Carolina.
The 2006 and 2008 elections were disastrous for Republicans. When Republicans controlled Washington, spending and earmarks exploded. Democrats were more than happy to help us expand federal control of health care and education, increase the national debt exponentially and ignore our job-killing tax code.
We didn't keep our promises to reform Medicare, Social Security or reduce the size of the federal government. You could accuse the Republican majority of many things, but certainly not of being too conservative!
When I expressed my disappointment and frustration with the way Republicans in the Senate were doing business, one senior member of my party's leadership told me, "Jim, you can't change the Senate."
That's when I realized the people in the Senate were not going to change, and it was time to change the people serving in the Senate.
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You should keep an eye on the GOP leadership as some of the people in the House & Senate voted through all of George W Bush's excess federal expenditure.Some of these people are only tacking rightward because they won on the back of the Tea Party and are now under pressure.They should cut the $1 trillion of waste as identified on this site a few weeks ago.They should look at the $1.2 trillion that the USA owes China and pay back $1 trillion of that at a stroke.That could protect the USA from being strong-armed by China and set the American back on track by boosting confidence in the prospects of a return to stability.
Posted by: Matthew Reynolds | 07/20/2011 at 04:06 PM