Jim DeMint's Power To Grow At Heritage Foundation

With Senate Exit, DeMint's Conservative Firepower Grows
FILE - In this June 17, 2011 file photo, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. speaks in New Orleans. Conservative Republicans are giving the business community a hard time, arguing that the marketplace should dictate what businesses thrive and falter, not Washington. "What we find now is this cronyism and this corporate welfare, it's corrupting the politics because there's nothing now that goes through that doesn't have a corporate interest,"DeMint told The Associated Press. He warned that the combination of big government and big industry is creating a nation that is becoming too big to succeed. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
FILE - In this June 17, 2011 file photo, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. speaks in New Orleans. Conservative Republicans are giving the business community a hard time, arguing that the marketplace should dictate what businesses thrive and falter, not Washington. "What we find now is this cronyism and this corporate welfare, it's corrupting the politics because there's nothing now that goes through that doesn't have a corporate interest,"DeMint told The Associated Press. He warned that the combination of big government and big industry is creating a nation that is becoming too big to succeed. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

In the Washington media, there is a well-established tradition of respecting what I've long called the No Money Rule.

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