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DeMint Faces Big Test

Politico | Posted 05.15.2012

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Sen. Jim DeMint's long march to push his party sharply to the right now hinges on a handful of races that will help determine whether he'll emerge as ...

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GOP Senator Gives $500,000 To Corporate Welfare Recipient's Super PAC

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 03.24.2012

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) on Tuesday led a conservative Senate bloc opposing a government loan program on the grounds that it functioned ...

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Jim DeMint: GOP Nominee 'Beginning To Look Like Romney'

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 03.22.2012

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Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said Thursday that he was "excited" about the possibility of Mitt Romney becoming the GOP presidential nominee, and suggested...

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'Policy Of No Compromise' Runs Risk For Republicans

Posted 03.17.2012

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By Nick Carey MYRTLE BEACH, S.C., Jan 16 (Reuters) - Everybody was waiting for Jim DeMint. Mitt Romney had reason to hope the South Carolina se...

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Reversing Course From '08, Jim DeMint Makes Announcement

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 01.16.2012

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Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) announced definitively Monday that he will not endorse a GOP presidential candidate. "I do not have a favorite in this rac...

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DeMint: 'We Really Need Someone Like A Governor Scott Walker' In The White House

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 01.12.2012

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Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) does not plan to endorse a candidate in the GOP presidential primary ahead of his state's crucial Jan. 21 primary. But he sai...

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GOP Candidates Woo Key Senator

AP | JIM DAVENPORT | Posted 03.13.2012

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — In the 2012 Republican nominating contest, Sen. Jim DeMint is like the pretty girl all the boys want to take to the prom. Nearl...

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Blow Delivered To Tea Party-Backed Senator

AP | Posted 12.13.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, a supporter of Mitt Romney, won a Senate GOP leadership post Tuesday over tea party favorite Sen. Ron Johnso...

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Tea Party's Last 2012 Primary Hope Struggling To Gain Traction

AP | By HENRY C. JACKSON and TOM LoBIANCO | Posted 12.13.2011

WASHINGTON -- The tea party movement's best remaining hope in 2012 for picking off an incumbent Republican in the Senate has boiled down to one state,...

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Advisers: Jim DeMint Not Shutting Door On Presidential Run

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) naturally stirred speculation recently when he announced that he'd be traveling to Iowa in March to headline a conservative f...

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Jim DeMint Lavishes Praise On Sarah Palin

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) recently perpetuated comparisons between Sarah Palin and the Gipper, announcing that the former Alaska governor has "done mor...

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Tea Time: New Era Of Leadership Begins With Blocked Spending Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Howard Fineman | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The new, more Republican Congress won't arrive in town until next month, but the Tea Party Era unofficially began on the Hill Thursday n...

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GOP and the Environment: The Bruising Battle Ahead, and Five Ways to Overcome It

Bill Shireman | Posted 05.25.2011

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The fiscally conservative wing of the GOP can help get government out of the way of those seeking to make environmentally sustainable investments. Here are five policies that both parties should support.

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Lisa Murkowski: Jim DeMint Hurt Republicans

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) may be experiencing some lasting resentment toward Republican colleagues, as a hard-fought battle in the Frontier State...

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Tea Party Republicans Win Earmark Fight

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mitch McConnell has realized that this battle was really not worth fighting, and has thus thrown in the towel on his opposition to the outright ban on earmarks.

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GOP Senators Back Earmark Ban After Requesting MILLIONS In Pork

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing & Elyse Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

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GOP senators have begun sharpening their swords for an epic face-off over a proposed earmark ban, a measure that some members of Congress believe must...

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How to Make Republicans Choose Between the People and the Big Health Insurers

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

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As of this Thursday, it shall be illegal for insurance companies to drop your coverage when you become ill. The day should not be allowed to pass, however, without calling the Republicans to task. With votes.

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Jim DeMint Says Obama's "Waterloo" May Come in November

David Brody | Posted 05.25.2011

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We all remember how DeMint said he wanted to make health care reform President Obama's 'waterloo'. Well, many may think that since it passed that DeMint lost. He says not so fast.

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My Apology to Rep. Joe Wilson

Mike Larsen | Posted 05.25.2011

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It appears that the man I cast as a simpleton is, in fact, an evil genius.

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Jim DeMint Wants To Be Tea Party's Best Friend In Washington

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Jim DeMint is making a bid to be the tea party movement's best friend in Washington. It's hardly a coincidence that the South Carolina Republica...

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Jim DeMint Rise Upends GOP Order

AP | BEN EVANS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Jim DeMint is becoming something of a tea party hero, even a potential conservative kingmaker, a status that is not making the fres...

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Underwear bombers and workers rights

Eve Tahmincioglu | Posted 05.25.2011

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I don't know about you, but I would feel more confident in airport security employees if they had a voice in the workplace. Right now, the employees ...

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TSA Without Leader Thanks To Jim DeMint

McClatchy Newspapers | Margaret Talev | Posted 05.25.2011

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An attempt to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day would be all-consuming for the administrator of the Transport...

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Conservatives Revel In Obama's Failures, Grow Optimistic About 2010

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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A host of conservative politicos and media personalities insisted this weekend that the forthcoming congressional elections would be a repeat of the s...

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Eight GOP Senators Opposed Bill That Funded Airport Screening And Explosive Detection

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Some of the same Republican lawmakers currently criticizing the President for softness on terrorism voted back in July 2007 against legislation that, ...

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