Tag Archives: Sen. Jim DeMint

South Carolina primary: Scramble ahead of Saturday vote

Posted on January 20th, 2012

By BILL NICHOLS COLUMBIA, S.C. The four surviving combatants in the 2012 Republican presidential field were crisscrossing South Carolina on Friday in the final hours before a critical primary that could either end the race or raise dramatic new questions about Mitt Romney’s hold on the nomination. After a tumultuous Thursday that saw Rick Perry [...]

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Will A Debt Ceiling Summit Become Health Care Summit Part 2?

Posted on July 6th, 2011

When the Obama Administration proposed a bipartisan meeting at Blair House on Feb 25, 2010, the main reaction from the GOP was to denounce it as a ‘Trap’.  Soon afterwards, Star Wars pop-culture stepped in to fill the void, mainly towards Admiral Ackbar’s “It’s a Trap” quote. The Trap gag became immense joke fodder, and Ackbar [...]

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Democrats Refuse to Cut Government Spending

Posted on March 15th, 2011

by: Emily Miller Congressional Democrats and President Obama are blocking every effort by Republicans to cut runaway government spending, leaving Washington at a stalemate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) even failed to pass a token spending cut last week. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) has fought any cut from current spending levels in [...]

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Why Sarah Palin keeps skipping CPAC

Posted on February 4th, 2011

By Rachel Weiner Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin today turned down an invitation to speak at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference even after being offered the plum keynote speaking spot, the fourth year in a row she’s turned down an offer to speak at the event. “February is our busiest winter month and with [...]

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Romney Wins New Hampshire Republican Party Committee Straw Poll

Posted on January 23rd, 2011

ABC News Political Director Amy Walter reports: In the first ever “straw poll” of New Hampshire Republican party committee members sponsored by ABC News and WMUR and sanctioned by the state Republican party, ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney took 35 percent of the 276 valid ballots cast. This is just 3 percent more than Romney took [...]

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DeMint: Steele Botched Ground Game, Needs to be Replaced

Posted on November 15th, 2010

By: Kenneth Vogel POLITICO The lack of a well-organized voter mobilization effort by the Republican National Committee could have cost the GOP “a few Senate seats,” Sen. Jim DeMint suggested Sunday. Partly as a result, the South Carolina Republican suggested he wouldn’t support a second term for controversial RNC Chairman Michael Steele, saying on “Fox [...]

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The Fired Congress

Posted on October 5th, 2010

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE In December, more than a dozen senators will come back to Washington and decide how much more tax money to take from Americans, without being accountable to any of them. Some companies have a policy that once someone is fired, they aren’t allowed back on the premises out of fear they might [...]

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At Least 17 Republicans in 2012 Presidential Election Field

Posted on September 11th, 2010

USNEWS.COM By Paul Bedard When Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told us this week that the 2012 GOP presidential field will be “wide open,” we had no idea just how many Republicans might be marching to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada for the opening caucuses and primaries. Including Barbour, who will decide after the [...]

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Republican strategist: Michael Steele has ‘obviously been a disaster’

Posted on August 21st, 2010

THE WASHINGTON POST By: Felicia Sonmez A top Republican Party strategist had some harsh words for beleaguered Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Sunday. Ed Rollins, who served as national campaign director for Ronald Reagan‘s 1984 bid and as a former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said that Steele has “obviously been [...]

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Romney Blasts New Start Treaty

Posted on July 7th, 2010

Until now, Republicans have been relatively muted in their assessments of President Obama’s arms control treaty with Russia. But former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, the once and likely future presidential candidate, came out Tuesday with a blistering assault on the treaty and called on his fellow Republicans to block its ratification. Mr. Romney said [...]

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