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Godspeed, Jim DeMint, and Thank You

Context Wrote: Dec 07, 2012 7:12 AM
LD - for me, the question is begged: can you be "dear friends" with someone whose worldview is 180 degrees from your own? If you were on trial for your life - as America certainly is currently on trial for its fiscal life right now - do you want your defense attorney to be the BFF of the prosecutor? Or do you want a lawyer who exists to beat the DA in every case? (I know that LD is satire...no need to remind me.)

Just before announcing his departure from the United States Senate, Jim DeMint gave me one last reason to praise him in that job.

He had spent Tuesday morning pointing out the lunacy of “putting revenues on the table,” which by necessity involves the belief that government does not have enough of our money. He advised against Republicans dividing over the issue and “treating the President’s proposal like it’s serious.”

He even delivered a twitter jab to the House leadership: "Speaker Boehner's offer of an $800 billion tax hike will destroy jobs and allow politicians in Washington to spend even more."

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