ClydeR
11-03-2010, 11:24 AM
Strong words from Senator Jim DeMint.
The next campaign begins today. Because you must now overcome determined party insiders if this nation is going to be spared from fiscal disaster.
Many of the people who will be welcoming the new class of Senate conservatives to Washington never wanted you here in the first place. The establishment is much more likely to try to buy off your votes than to buy into your limited-government philosophy. Consider what former GOP senator-turned-lobbyist Trent Lott told the Washington Post earlier this year: "As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them."
Don't let them. Co-option is coercion.
More... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704141104575588612828579920.html)
DeMint gives some good advice to the new Senators riding to Washington on the Tea Party wave. There is going to be turmoil in the Republican Party in the Senate, where the establishment Republicans supported the primary opponents of the Tea Party candidates. In the House too, but it will be more obvious in the Senate. Turmoil, the fusion of movement and work, is sometimes unpleasant, but it is necessary. If it doesn't kill you, then it makes you stronger.
Also, I don't like it when people have a capital letter in the middle of their name. It looks foreign or something.
The next campaign begins today. Because you must now overcome determined party insiders if this nation is going to be spared from fiscal disaster.
Many of the people who will be welcoming the new class of Senate conservatives to Washington never wanted you here in the first place. The establishment is much more likely to try to buy off your votes than to buy into your limited-government philosophy. Consider what former GOP senator-turned-lobbyist Trent Lott told the Washington Post earlier this year: "As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them."
Don't let them. Co-option is coercion.
More... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704141104575588612828579920.html)
DeMint gives some good advice to the new Senators riding to Washington on the Tea Party wave. There is going to be turmoil in the Republican Party in the Senate, where the establishment Republicans supported the primary opponents of the Tea Party candidates. In the House too, but it will be more obvious in the Senate. Turmoil, the fusion of movement and work, is sometimes unpleasant, but it is necessary. If it doesn't kill you, then it makes you stronger.
Also, I don't like it when people have a capital letter in the middle of their name. It looks foreign or something.