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Sen. DeMint: "I Am Just Going To Have To Create Pain"

Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro
First Posted: 07-17-09 11:35 AM | Updated: 07-17-09 02:17 PM

In an interview [ http://www.gop12.com/2009/07/demint-warns-i-am-just-going-to-have-to.html (below)] with the evangelical World Magazine titled "The Taxpayers' Greatest Ally," Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) had some interesting things to say about his work with his colleagues in the Senate:

"I am not going to be able to persuade my colleagues to do the right things, so I am just going to have to create pain."

Okay, that is a bit intense. However, it may not even be the most intense statement from Sen. DeMint this week. On a conference call this morning, DeMint discussed [ http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0709/Health_reform_foes_plan_Obamas_Waterloo.html (below)] health care reform: ""This health care issue Is D-Day for freedom in America... If we're able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him."

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DeMint warns: "I am just going to have to create pain"



Posted by gop 12 at 10:56 AM
Friday, July 17, 2009

In a new interview [ http://www.worldmag.com/articles/15685 ] with evangelical World Magazine, SC Sen. Jim DeMint has a few noteworthy things to say.

1. On his role in the Senate.

"I am not going to be able to persuade my colleagues to do the right things, so I am just going to have to create pain."

2. On the intersection of religion and government.

"Dependency on government reduces dependency on God."

World also notes that in his new book, Saving Freedom [ http://www.amazon.com/Saving-Freedom-Americas-Slide-Socialism/dp/0805449574/ ], DeMint calls Barack Obama a "master of victimology".

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http://www.gop12.com/2009/07/demint-warns-i-am-just-going-to-have-to.html [with comments]
[and see in particular (items linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=32615092 and following]


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Health reform foes plan Obama's 'Waterloo'

By Ben Smith 12:31 PM
July 17, 2009

Conservative leaders will push delay any vote on health care reform until after the August recess to capitalize on what they say is a growing tide of opposition to reform measures, they said on a conference call with "tea party" participants today.

"I can almost guarantee you this thing won't pass before August, and if we can hold it back until we go home for a month's break in August," members of Congress will hear from "outraged" constituents, South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint said on the call, which was organized by the group Conservatives for Patients Rights.

"Senators and Congressmen will come back in September afraid to vote against the American people," DeMint predicted, adding that "this health care issue Is D-Day for freedom in America."

"If we’re able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him," he said.

The founder of Conservatives for Patients Rights told the 104 participants in the call, which was organized to coincide with the National Tea Party Patriots group's protests at the offices of members of Congress today, that polling suggests majorities oppose a "government take-over," which is how Scott's group casts the Obama plan.

Rep. Mike Pence, also on the call, also said the tide is turning.

"Every single day more dems are expressing op to government-run health care," he said.

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and yes, of course, DeMint is another C Street Family guy -- from way back (early in the second item in the post to which this post is a reply)