Comments on: Senate loses a tea partier; Heritage Foundation loses whatever credibility it had left

By: fenway49

fenway49 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:26:17 +0000

“Boehnerofmyexistence”

By: whosmindingdemint

whosmindingdemint — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:07:15 +0000

This shocking news has given me an identity crisis: Since DeMint didn’t do more than say NO really loud as a senator, I think we can count on hime to doing nothing productive at all – which is what he’s good at – over at the Heretic Foundation, Besides, his mind will be occupied with how to spend a million a year, but no worries because there is no public scrutiny of His Ignorance any more.
Now I’m not a superstitious man, but if a blog handle is anything like a rabbit’s foot, then I need to choose a new one pronto!

How about “TrotCantortoCato” or some such? “SexboyShamblis@Motel6.guv?”

Open to suggestions…so have at.

By: stomv

stomv — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:38:33 +0000

their cans are the wrong size. Really annoying.

But mostly, it’s the taste of the Rocky Mountain Oysters.

By: striker57

striker57 — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 16:29:23 +0000

Just an FYI. Joseph Coors, as in Coors beer and a right-wing nut job, founded the Hertiage Foundation. Joe Coors and his family were the Koch Brothers before there were Koch Brothers!

http://www.heritage.org/about/speeches/the-legacy-of-joseph-coors

One good reason I don’t drink Coors beer (that and its tastes like crap).

By: bob-gardner

bob-gardner — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:18:52 +0000

and several senators who had previously supported the treaty publicly changed their votes. So who knows exactly how the deal went down? The salient fact is that Demint had a clear financial interest in making Heritage happy while he voted and influenced his colleagues.

By: Mark L. Bail

Mark L. Bail — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 21:24:33 +0000

part of the Republican Welfare System that employees the once and future servants that did their bidding in the public sector.

By: mski011

mski011 — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:21:35 +0000

DeMint sits on Banking Committee. Maybe he feared getting schooled by…

By: johnk

johnk — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:01:21 +0000

Mitt took the work of the Heritage Foundation to lay the groundwork here in MA. Back when there was a real debate on health care, the Heritage Foundation was the response to universal health care.

By: fenway49

fenway49 — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:27:06 +0000

what does Whosmindingdemint have to say about this?

By: stomv

stomv — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:02:13 +0000

the idea of bribing Senator Demint over that issue seems more than a bit strange…

By: fenway49

fenway49 — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:45:02 +0000

is that I don’t see him supporting the treaty anyway. It’s clear he was negotiating with Heritage while it was up, but not clear he changed his vote in any way.

By: SomervilleTom

SomervilleTom — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:25:12 +0000

I’m shocked, just SHOCKED, that such a thought would enter your head.

You mean that creating an entire cultural and religious movement based on glorifying venal greed might result in one of its political leaders trading a vote for money?

Nah, couldn’t possibly be true. I’m sure if there were any truth to it, it would have been reported on Fox News.

Right?

By: bob-gardner

bob-gardner — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:37:27 +0000

…Demint voted against the treaty, and within hours is hired by the Heritage Foundation and will make about five times as much as he made as a Senator.
I don’t know how anyone avoids the conclusion that Demint was already negotiating with Heritage while opposing the treaty, and that there was a quid pro quo.
Does anyone think the Heritage job, at that salary, would have been available to him if he had supported the treaty against Heritage’s wishes?

By: johnk

johnk — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:43:56 +0000

by DeMint. Nothing more, nothing less. Unsure of his earnings, but he does rank towards the very bottom in the Senate. That in itself doesn’t mean much, but DeMint left a Senate seat that was his for the taking for a very long time for the money.

By: kirth

kirth — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:21:14 +0000

But this development should also make it clear to those journalists who in the past have looked to the Heritage Foundation for the “respectable” conservative side of things that they really should look elsewhere.

Unfortunately, in the Bizzarro World we inhabit, having a former senator, even a completely unhinged one, will probably enhance Heritage’s reputation among those people.