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Related: About this forumBOEHNER'S BOSS: SPEAKER DEMINT
Boehners sorry reality: GOPs true leader is Jim DeMintThe former senator isn't just the head of the right's premier think tank -- he's now running the Republican Party
BY ELIAS ISQUITH
Barely more than 20 minutes thats how long it took Jim DeMint to kill John Boehners best laid plans.
The Speaker of the House had spent all of Tuesday stitching together a bill to fund the government, raise the debt ceiling and strip Congressional staffers of their health insurance subsidies. It was supposed to be a bill to prove that the House GOP would not go down without a fight. That it would not be a rubber stamp. That it would be giving and never receiving orders not from Harry Reid, not from the liberal media, and certainly not from the president. Boehners bill, in short, was supposed to be a display of his resolve, his principle, his pride.
Yet all it took was one pronouncement from one head of Jim DeMints conservative hydra and poof! 25 minutes later, the vote was canceled; the bill was gone.
The pronouncement in question came from the website of Heritage Action, the PAC appendage of the Heritage Foundation, where Jim DeMint is president and the right-wing grass-roots is king. Unlike the Heritage Foundation, which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Heritage Action can lobby for or against legislation, or not-so-subtly promote one candidate ahead of another in the weeks leading up to primary election day. Like the Senate Conservatives Fund before it, a super PAC DeMint helped create when he was still a senator, Heritage Action serves as DeMints legislative cudgel, threatening a grass-roots war against any Republican who doesnt vote his chosen way.
And yesterday, DeMints chosen way was against John Boehner. Labeling the vote a key vote, meaning that it would be included on every House Republicans legislative scorecard, Heritage Action strongly came out in opposition to Boehners bill. Its problem? [T]he proposed deal will do nothing to stop Obamacares massive new entitlements from taking root, said the Heritage PAC. It was nothing more than another Washington-style punt. It would not save Americans from the Obamacare menace.
Full article:
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/16/boehners_sorry_reality_gops_true_leader_is_jim_demint/
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BOEHNER'S BOSS: SPEAKER DEMINT (Original Post)
DonViejo
Oct 2013
OP
Demint pulling Boehner's strings. Again, the money in politics issue. The threat of
Filibuster Harry
Oct 2013
#2
calimary
(81,304 posts)1. How do we save America from the jim demint/heritage action menace?
THAT is the real question here. One that needs urgent and decisive action.
Filibuster Harry
(666 posts)2. Demint pulling Boehner's strings. Again, the money in politics issue. The threat of
groups putting up money to primary elected officials. I wonder what the Supreme Court thinks now of
their "Citizens United" decision??