Sunday, August 25, 2013
Crazy Uncle Jim DeMint On The Road Again
Having spent the last three years in the Senate trying to stop The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act from taking effect, Crazy Uncle Jim DeMint is on the road trying to prop up failing Republican efforts to throw a monkey wrench into the works.
Jim DeMint is back in a familiar role – challenging other Republicans to put conservative principles over political costs, and not particularly caring how many friends or allies he offends along the way.And, hey why not, everybody knows the best way to stop it is to pull a "Crazy Newt" and shut down the government. It worked so well last time.
Three years after he helped lead the unsuccessful fight to defeat what he and other foes branded Obamacare, DeMint is returning to the fray.
Now, though, the South Carolinian is waging his battle not as a United States senator, but as head of the most influential conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation in Washington.
Joined by Sen. Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican whom DeMint helped get elected by funneling money from his Senate Conservatives Fund, DeMint is on a nationwide “Defund Obamacare Tour” to gin up support for a bid in Congress to withhold funding to implement the landmark health-insurance law.
DeMint and Cruz are demanding that other Republican lawmakers try to block funding to implement Obamacare by providing no money for it in appropriations bills for the 2014 fiscal year that starts Oct. 1 and by withholding funding as a condition for agreeing to raise the federal debt ceiling later in the fall.
“No one I know wants to shut down the government,” DeMint told McClatchy on Saturday. "All we’re talking about is withholding money that would be spent on implementing Obamacare. The law is unaffordable, unworkable, unfair and unpopular.”
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