Jim Demint

Meeting of the Minds? Why Obama and McCain Need Each Other

On Monday, McCain travels to Chicago to discuss ways he can fulfill that promise in a private meeting with the President-elect. Last Friday brought notice that the relationship between the two would soon be returning to form...

Republicans blast auto bailout plan - USATODAY.com

Second-ranking GOP senator Jon Kyl says the Democrats' $25 billion auto bailout would only delay "the day of reckoning." WASHINGTON—Top Republicans heaped scorn Sunday on a plan by Democrats to spend $25 billion rescuing...

NYT: GOP debates roadmap back to power

Party faithful fret over how conservative movement should re-energize Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks with Florida Governor Charlie Crist during the Republican Governors Association conference on Thursday. In small meetings at...

Speculation Surrounds A DeMint Run In 2012

With Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson in the field, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was never truly the conservative's candidate of choice. And now with his campaign defeated and his party facing a de facto exile from...

Senator DeMint Slams McCain

Senator Jim DeMint let John McCain and George Bush have it at a gathering of top level Republicans at Myrtle Beach yesterday. The South Carolina conservative spared few words in lambasting the Arizona senator :

Where Do We Go From Here?

What does a political party do when it has gotten thrashed in the last two election cycles? Agree on change they can believe in ? It won't be easy, since most of the competing parts of the Republican coalition think that if...

GOP Legacies: Bush, McCain, Stevens

This isn't about the legislative accomplishments of these three GOP posterboys for corruption and ineptitude, but about what future generations will make of them. Even Chester A. Arthur had schools named after him. They could...

U.S. Congress set for fiery post-election session

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - (REUTERS/Molly Riley) With Barack Obama preparing to become the 44th U.S. president on Jan. 20, lawmakers will take another crack at providing fiscal relief to Americans and the U.S. auto industry, and...

Even More GOP Whackjobiness — Should We Encourage This?

Republicans, who we thought were whack jobs before, are now showing their whackjobiness. It's not just with Rep. Broun calling Obama a Nazi, or Sen. DeMint attacking John McCain. The uptick in threats to President-elect Obama...

Clyburn ties help as Obama era dawns

By James Rosen | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON -- As President-elect Barack Obama forms his new administration, it helps to have a friend -- or a father -- in Jim Clyburn, if you want part of the action. Other Clyburn allies...

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