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发帖数: 29846 | 1 February 9, 2012 Posted by Warner Todd Huston
Senator Jim DeMint (R, SC) is well known as the most conservative man in the
upper chamber. He gave a rousing speech here at CPAC and afterward told a
small gathering of us that many of the points he made will appear in his
forthcoming book, Now or Never, Saving America From Economic Collapse. That
message is, he said, that we have only a short time to turn this mess around
and get this country back on track.
DeMint said that we need to remind our people — or in too many cases teach
them from scratch — about America’s exceptionalism, but we also need to
learn what changed from the days when our exceptionalism was better
understood by the people. DeMint also noted that one of the problems we have
to over come is that the Democrats agenda now prevents them from working in
any way with the GOP and because their agenda is so extreme we just can’t
compromise with them any more.
“Something’s gotta give,” DeMint said, “We have about a year before its
too late
DeMint was asked about Florida Senator Marco Rubio and he couldn’t say
enough good things about the young legislator. “Marco has been very smart
in picking his battles,” DeMint said. “He’s not out there yapping at the
president every day. But just like he has with the freedom of conscience
issue he’s taken the lead, he’s become the face of that issue. He can, he
’s Catholic. So he’s playing a role and he’s been very smart in picking
his battles.”
DeMint also talked a bit about immigration saying that as Republicans we
believe in immigration. “We need to reform our system,” DeMint said. But
he went on to scold Democrats for their cynical part in the discussion over
illegal immigration.
“The political agenda of the Democrats is to just take more than 10 million
illegals here and make them voters as quickly as they can because they know
it’ll change the political dynamic. I just think that totally denigrates
our heritage of immigration,” he said.
DeMint was disgusted with the Democrat’s seeming desire to break the system
and to push their agenda in front of those that have been patiently
awaiting in other countries for their turn to come here legally.
But there is no working with the Democrats, said DeMint. “The Democrats
will not allow anything but blanket amnesty because they want voters and
they want union members… It’s hard to work with the Democrats on this
because they have a political agenda not necessarily an economic agenda.”
DeMint also had good words to say about Ted Cruz, a candidate for Senate out
of Texas. “Ted’s tenacious, he’s young — again a great new face for the
Republican Party — and his opposition, as good a people as they are, I’ve
seen it for years that they’re not going to come up here [Washington] and
rock the boat. They’re not going to get in one of our party leader’s face
and say, ‘We can’t do this.’ Ted will, I don’t think he needs to be
loved. And that’s what I’m looking for, somebody that can be completely
isolated from the establishment here and still go home and feel good about
himself.”
Finally, I asked DeMint about how we as conservatives and Republicans can
get the word out to voters of how the Democrats have for now more than 1,000
days refused to obey the law and do their duty to propose and help pass a
full federal budget.
“The president will present a budget,” DeMint said, “I think what we need
to do is use that to help Americans understand the priorities of Obama and
the Democrat Party and then in a month or so Paul Ryan will come out with
his budget, which I think you’ll see Republicans unite around, which will
take our spending back towards balance over time and at the same time
reforms for Medicare and probably social security and the tax code. We need
to use this as something to not only remind people that the Democrats don’t
want to do a budget in the Senate because it tells people what they want to
do. And they’re not going to do one this year even though Kent Conrad had
wanted to do one [House Leader] Harry Reid said no. They’d much rather
attack our budget then defend theirs.”
Senator DeMint went on to say that Democrats “think Americans are stupid
and I think we have at least 51% of Americans that are not and that’s what
I’m counting on.”
After talking a little more about his book we bid the Senator farewell. |
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