WASHINGTON — Senator Jim DeMint, a conservative Republican from South Carolina who helped ignite the Tea Party movement, will leave the Senate to become president of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group.
DeMint — who has fashioned himself into a bit of a kingmaker for conservative Republicans, often at the expense of other Republican colleagues — finds himself with a comfortable and well-paying perch that will provide a platform to continue his efforts to push the GOP to the right.
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So, the list of frustrated US Senators is growing. It's not just the province of moderates, it's now spread to some conservatives. Although, admittedly, DeMint made his own bed, and now he's got to lie in it. Senator Murray is correct in saying that the far-right philosophy espoused and sponsored by DeMint has been regularly roundly rejected by the majority of American voters. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On a related note -- hey, if Scott Brown acts fast, and switches his residence to South Carolina, maybe he could have a chance at that newly open Senate seat. He's already switched his Nat Guard affiliation from Mass to Maryland; what's another state or two? He'd probably fit in better down in SoCaro.
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