Tag: Jim DeMint

Calling the GOPe bluff on ObamaCare “repeal”

Posted on February 25, 2017February 25, 2017 by Brant Clifton

We’re getting hit with all kinds of nonsense from our elected “honorables” in DC about how it might take THREE YEARS to seriously do anything about ObamaCare. Jim DeMint, the

Jim DeMint moves on

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Brant Clifton

US Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) caught us all off guard with his announcement today about resigning his seat and taking over the presidency of The Heritage Foundation.

Hey, South Carolina: Wanna Trade?

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Every time we start to give up on those people in Washington, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint comes along and gives us a little hope. For many conservatives, it’s

Renee Ellmers: live and in living color

Posted on March 11, 2012March 12, 2012 by Brant Clifton

One of the first people I bumped into at Saturday’s Moore GOP event was our new Member of Congress, Renee Ellmers of Dunn. Ellmers won a close race

National Journal: Scott, Gowdy are SC’s most conservative in U.S. House, DeMint ranks 10th in Senate

Posted on February 24, 2012February 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

If you check National Journal’s conservative effectiveness rankings for the U.S. House, you will find The Palmetto State’s most right-leaning legislators tying for 80th place out of 435. Republicans

SC primary: Can you HEAR us NOW?

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Two South Carolina Republican officials with strong conservative and Tea Party credentials appear to be sending the GOP establishment and the party’s presidential candidates a

DeMint: Big-spending business-as-usual in Congress

Posted on December 21, 2011December 21, 2011 by Brant Clifton

U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), writing in The Hill over the weekend, says The Tea Party needs to finish what it started in 2010 if real change

DeMint stands alone against ‘pandering’

Posted on November 17, 2011November 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

No one can accuse South Carolina’s U.S. Senator Jim DeMint of being a typical Washington politician — wetting his finger and holding it up to see which way the wind

Senator DeMint: We are STILL not cutting.

Posted on November 8, 2011November 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

For those of us active in The Tea Party, who thought we really brought change to Washington in November 2010, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint’s (R-SC) article in National

Jim DeMint: Common sense’s lone voice in the U.S. Senate

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Brant Clifton

For North Carolinians like me who appreciated Senator Jesse Helms — and are dismayed by what we now have representing us in the Senate, South Carolina’s Jim DeMint