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Jim DeMint: My Plan Has Been 2 Terms and Go Home to My Porch! (But Aides say 2016 May Still be on the Table)

If all goes according to plan, Jim DeMint has run his last race

By: Conn Carroll | Senior Editorial Writer Follow Him @conncarroll | 07/29/11 9:29 AM

Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., tells National Journal that his current term will be his last:

NJ Any regrets about not getting into the presidential race?

DeMINT No; it’s just not an ambition of mine.

NJ What is your ambition?

DeMINT My hope is to elect five or 10 more solid conservatives and go home and rock on my front porch.

NJ This is your last term?

DeMINT Yeah. It was not a campaign promise; but that is my plan, that the election last year was my last one. It has always been my plan not to serve more than two terms.

DeMint was just reelected in 2010 so his current term does run all the way through 2016. But even then, it is hard to imagine him disappearing entirely. In his six short years in the Senate so far, he has already moved the Republican caucus visibly to the right. Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., all were helped by DeMint endorsements. When 2017 does roll around, conservatives will miss him dearly.

UPDATE: DeMint aide emails to say DeMint “plan” has been for 2010 to be his last race. But DeMint “hasn’t ruled out” a 2016 run either.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/07/jim-demint-has-run-his-last-race?utm_source=feedburner+BeltwayConfidential&utm_medium=feed+Beltway+Confidential&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BeltwayConfidential+%28Beltway+Confidential%29feed&utm_content=feed&utm_term=feed#ixzz1TVyGW6gd

Obama Team Channels Aaron Sorkin’s Scripts for PR Help !!

from RedState:

Apparently, according to White House Chief of Staff William Daley, Barack Obama has a secret plan to raise the debt ceiling. We’re not allowed to see it.

From the transcript with Wolf Blitzer:

BLITZER: So what you’re saying is the president did present a plan to the speaker, John Boehner.

DALEY: Yes.

BLITZER: But – but he didn’t…

DALEY: Right.

BLITZER: – make it public.

DALEY: No, because there’s… both the speaker and – and the president had agreed and – that these sort of negotiations do not happen in public.

Now, where have I seen that before?

Josh Lyman: Uh, long story short – you’re going to be reading a bit today about your secret plan to fight inflation.
President Josiah Bartlet: I have a secret plan to fight inflation?
Josh Lyman: No.
President Josiah Bartlet: Why am I going to be reading that I do?
Josh Lyman: It was suggested in the press room that you did.
President Josiah Bartlet: By who?
Josh Lyman: By me.
President Josiah Bartlet: You told the press I have a secret plan to fight inflation?
Josh Lyman: No, I did not. Let me be absolutely clear I did not do that. Except yes, I did that.
Bartlet: Are you telling me that not only did you invent a secret plan to fight inflation, but now you don’t support it?

I’m guessing we’ll see Barack Obama’s plan next summer in theaters. It’ll involve Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, and Captain America with Samuel L. jackson as Barack Obama.

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/07/29/barack-obamas-secret-plan-to-save-america-solve-the-debt-crisis-and-fight-the-freemasons/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Bachmann Tells Press that “My Family is Not Running for the White House, I Am”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Michele Bachmann steadfastly refused Thursday to answer questions about her family’s business and finances, saying that she — not her husband — was the one seeking the White House.

The Minnesota Republican faced queries about Marcus Bachmann’s Christian counseling clinic that attempts to convert gay patients as well as her own beliefs on sexuality during a luncheon at the National Press Club. With her husband sitting nearby, Bachmann said she expected scrutiny as a candidate but questions about her family were off-limits.

“I’m running for the presidency of the United States. My husband is not running for the presidency. Neither are my children. Neither is our business,” she said.

“I am more than happy to stand for questions on running for the presidency of the United States,” she continued. “I have no doubt that every jot and tittle of my life will be fully looked at and inspected prior to November of 2012.”

Bachmann, who is campaigning hard ahead of next month’s debate and straw poll in Iowa, has steadfastly refused to discuss the family’s business that has faced criticism from gay rights groups. When asked to describe her beliefs on gay therapy, Michele Bachmann said she loved her husband of 32 years and then said her husband was not a campaign issue.

She also faced questions about her opposition to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Washington Post reported this week that its analysis of her loan documents suggests her family used those federally subsidized programs in 2008.

“Unlike all of you, who I’m sure paid cash for your homes, there are people out there like myself who actually have to go to a bank to get a mortgage. This is a problem: it’s almost impossible to buy a home in this country today without the federal government being involved,” she said.

“We need to get the federal government out of these programs.”

For full article: http://news.yahoo.com/bachmann-says-she-not-husband-running-office-201319758.html

NOTE: For those who have mortgages on their homes, the involvement of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac in the process is usually “out of your hands”, being done by the bank at the time of the mortgage.

A Texan’s Answer to Welfare……….. Don’t Like It, Then Get A Job!

A Texan’s Answer to Welfare
Waco Herald Tribute ^ | Nov. 18, 2010 | Anon

Posted on Friday, July 29, 2011 10:37:42 AM by econjack

Put me in charge . . .

Put me in charge of food stamps. I’d get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho’s, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.

Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I’d do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we’ll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats and piercings, then get a job.

Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your “home” will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.

In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a “government” job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the common good.

Before you write that I’ve violated someone’s rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules.. Before you say that this would be “demeaning” and ruin their “self esteem,” consider that it wasn’t that long ago that taking someone else’s money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.

If we are expected to pay for other people’s mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.

AND While you are on Govt subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Govt welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2755722/posts

Rep. Paul Ryan: “Let’s Pass a Bill to Cover the Moon in Yogurt”

Introducing to the debt crisis lexicon what is perhaps its catchiest potential meme yet, Rep. Ryan explained that much of the “spending” cuts proposed were counting money not yet necessary to spend. Many of the assumptions, Rep. Ryan explained, in the proposed cuts were, to him, complete fiction:

We assume we’re going to be fighting this war for 10 more years, with over 100,000 troops in Afghanistan and oh, gosh, wait, we’re going to withdraw our troops in 2014. $1 trillion in savings. I’ve got a better idea. Let’s pass a bill to cover the moon with yogurt that will cost $5 trillion today. and then let’s pass a bill the next day to cancel that bill. We could save $5 trillion. Wait, I’ve got a better idea. Our debt is $14 trillion. Let’s come up with a new plan to spend $14 trillion, then rescind it the next day and let’s save $14 trillion. This stuff is fiscal fantasy. You can’t make this stuff up, Mr. Speaker. 

The video is better than reading it: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rep-paul-ryans-response-to-defense-cuts-lets-pass-a-bill-to-cover-the-moon-with-yogurt/

We Didn’t Have the “Green” Thing Back Then!!!!

 In the line at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she
should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good
for the environment.
 
The woman apologized to her and explained, “We didn’t have the green
thing back in my day.”
 
The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today.  Your generation did
not care enough to save our environment.”
 
She was right — our generation didn’t have the green thing in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles
to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and
sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and
over.  So they really were recycled.
 
But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.
 
We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator inevery
store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t
climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two
blocks.
 
But she was right. We didn’t have the green thing in our day.
 
Back then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t havethe
throw-away kind.  We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy
gobbling machine burning up 220 volts — wind and solar power really
did dry the clothes.  Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their
brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that old lady
is right; we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.
 
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every
room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief
(remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.
 
In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have
electric machines to do everything for us.
 
When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used a wadded
up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
 
Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut
the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power.  We exercised by
working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
 
But she’s right; we didn’t have the green thing back then.
 
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup
or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water.
 
We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we
replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the
whole razor just because the blade got dull.
 
But we didn’t have the green thing back then.
 
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their
bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour
taxi service.
 
We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets
to power a dozen appliances.  And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to
receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to
find the nearest pizza joint.

But isn’t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old
 folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then?

Ohio GOP Statehouse May Punish Rep. Jim Jordan for not Backing Boehner- by ReDrawing his District

     The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that sources in the Ohio Statehouse are furious with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for his public display of not backing Speaker John Boehner’s debt ceiling bill. They believe that they hold the cards to punish him as they redraw the Congressional districts:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/afternoon-fix-republicans-discuss-revenge-on-boehner-foe/2011/07/28/gIQAJfkbfI_blog.html

Meanwhile, Speaker Boehner has spoken out against any “retribution” against Jordan:

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/174215-boehner-says-no-retribution-for-dissenting-conservative-rep-jordan

 

Pondering the GOP Taking the Senate in 2012, and A New Majority Leader (DeMint)

from RedState:

Whatever the outcome of the debate on the debt ceiling, one thing’s f’sure, the NEXT Senate will be a vastly different body. There are no guarantees..anything can happen, from a war in the Middle east, to an asteroid landing somewheres inside the Beltway.

But all things being equal, the GOP should take control of the Senate after 2012. They could gain from 5-10 seats, and possibly more.  But far more importantly, the next GOP caucus will be much more conservative. And articulate. And courageous.

for full article: http://www.redstate.com/gawken/2011/07/24/time-for-a-happy-diary-ponder-the-next-senate-with-a-conservative-gop-majority-and-a-new-majority-leader/