Jim DeMint to resign to head Heritage Foundation
The most telling quote from the piece?
The mistake the GOP made over the past four years, DeMint told reporters, was focusing too much on what the party was against rather than putting forth “bold ideas to get people inspired and behind us.”
Right. I wonder if any of the commenters over at The Smallest Minority will take this quote to heart regarding yours truly:)
With this resignation, the age of the "Angry White Man" has now officially concluded.
3 comments:
For once Jim DeMint is right: Republican policy for the last four years has been completely dictated by Obama. Everything the president has been for, Republicans have reflexively opposed. Unconditionally, even if they were just for it a couple of years before.
But this is not the end of the angry white man. DeMint is now convinced that Congress should consist of nothing but dispensable puppets anointed by big-money Tea Party bigwigs who tell them what laws to pass. He doesn't want to be a puppet anymore: holding office is for suckers.
Once freed of the shackles of accountability to the public DeMint will be able to use all the money he collects from the wealthy to apply the lessons learned from Obama's successes and Republican failures.
Republicans still control a lot of state governments, and that means they can turn the screws on Democrats in 2014 even tighter to reduce turnout. Voter suppression laws in some states were delayed by the courts rather than overturned, which means in the next few elections Democrats will have a difficult time reaching the same numbers they did in 2012. The Supreme Court is likely to overturn key provisions of the voting rights act. Midterms always have lower turnout, and Republicans are even now hatching plans to repeat 2010.
The Republicans are merely wounded, not undone. It will take many years before all the people who vote for them pass into senescence.
Yet, all their money didn't do squat for them in this election now did it? I agree with you about state governments but eventually the Right is going to have to come up with the goods and all they have is anger, hate and fear right now. People won't vote for that.
Your concern for Republicans is so full of concern. Meh.
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