Saturday, October 2, 2010

Jim DeMint: America's Jack Ass

Posted by Will Moredock on Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 2:55 AM

Sen. Jim DeMint is one of the most polarizing political figures in the country, not surprising since he comes from one of the most polarized states. In South Carolina we mostly hear the praise and the hosannas coming from the GOP and the teabaggers. But outside of those circles he is widely regarded as a buffoon. Here is what Charles Pierce of Esquire magazine said about him in the October issue.

See it all right here: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/jim-demint-waterloo-quote


Just this week, Senator Jim DeMint settled the basic historical issue once and for all: the Civil War was a massive waste of time, money, and human life — at least as it pertains to the great state of South Carolina.

OK, so we'd have missed out on some good songs, and that Ending Slavery thing was a good deal, and Ken Burns wouldn't be as rich and famous, and a lot of grizzled men who like to play soldier-man dress-up would have to go back to the Star Trek conventions where they belong. I will grant you all that. But, at the very least, we would have been spared to piteous spectacle this week of the World's Greatest Deliberative Body — and, through that the World's Greatest Republic — being seized entirely by a slick, Leviticus-mumbling grifter. DeMint is what Jesus would have been had He gone into real estate, hustling swamp properties outside Capernaum to various Galilean suckers.

This week, DeMint announced that he would employ his senatorial privileges to put a hold on virtually all legislation until after the midterm elections. After which, he anticipates giddily, the clown car will stop at the steps of the Capitol and disgorge its contents, all of whom will have the propellers on their beanies spinning in the same direction as his. This is what democratic self-government has come down to in the 21st Century — a coup DeMint.

He doesn't really have a grip on the etiquette, though. Usually, when you seize control of the government, the first thing you do is grab the radio station, so you can explain why you did it, and then you blockade the airports to make sure you have an audience. Of course, Jim DeMint hasn't had to bother with all that. He has the Senate Rules, and he has the will to use them, and he is, after all, from South Carolina, which has always considered its membership in the United States of America to be largely honorary....


Now, DeMint has been a prize for some time, even by the standards set by his home state. Back in 2004, during a campaign debate, he delivered himself of the opinion that gay people should not be allowed to teach in the public schools. (Needless to say, he doesn't think they should be allowed to adopt children, or marry.) Not long after the Kenyan Usurper's hand left the Bible, DeMint was telling people that, if the Republicans could destroy the president's proposed health-care reform, they could "break him" — presumably, not to the saddle, but who knows with these clowns? — and that it would be Barack Obama's "Waterloo."

That there were some 45 million people out in the country at large who didn't have health insurance, and that researchers at Harvard said that some 45,000 Americans died every year because they weren't wealthy enough to keep each other alive, had nothing to do with this calculation. Only a few of them live in South Carolina, and they won't be voting for him, or sending him any money, so what the hell.

I'm telling you, getting Fort Sumter back hasn't been worth all this.

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Regarding the "Kenyan Usurper" as you so properly identify him --

Barack Hussein Obama II was born August 4, 1961 at the Coast Province General Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya.

There is no way he is a 'Natural Born Citizen' as required for the office of President by the US Constitution. We need to demand Jim DeMint and the rest of Congress fully investigate all matters related to Obama's eligibility and, if justified, remove him from office.

Check out the Website, WasObamaBornInKenya.com and download the free poster showing an image of Obama adjacent to a reduced-size copy of his Kenyan Birth Certificate.

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Posted by B. Steadman on October 4, 2010 at 6:55 AM

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birth…

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Posted by ETimmonsP on October 4, 2010 at 9:40 AM

Of if you happen to be non-moronic, check out the previous "statement" here: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birth….
The above statement is just one more example of someone being told what he wants to hear and decididng it must be true.
Birther nonsence is just that, nonsence, and President Obama is not going to show his birth certificate to every moron who wants to see it.
Guess who wan not born in the USA? Good ol' John McCain.
Look it up.

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Posted by FCB on October 4, 2010 at 9:41 AM

Obama was not born in the USA, he was born on a planet orbiting Epsilon Eridani.
I state this as a fact because:
A. It's what I want to hear.
B. I found a website that says so: http://www.giwersworld.org/opinion/space-a…
That must be why he hasn't come by my house to show me his birth certificate.

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Posted by FCB on October 4, 2010 at 10:00 AM

You crazy, foaming-at-the-mouth liberals and your stupid facts never stop, do you? The Hawai'i department of health, their Republican governor, the two local papers, the DNC and Hillary Clinton are obviously all in cahoots and have been since 1961 to pull off the greatest election caper in history! Occam can shove his razor, I've seen the light!

On a different note: Will, save your breath. Who are we supposed to vote for instead of DeMint? Seriously! Even if everyone that doesn't like DeMint casts no vote, he'll still beat Alvin Greene.

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Posted by factoryconnection on October 4, 2010 at 10:06 AM

Yeah, liberals use things like FACTS to make points with reason instead of asking for jesus himself to send down the answers burnt onto a holy piece of toast.

I can't stand these insane left wingers with their ideas and use of rationality and reason. If Obomba (thats right, the word BOMB is in his name! HELLO he's a terrorist) was born in KENYA then we need to fire him from president. I say we remove the term limits and re-elect Al Gore... sorry I mean George W. Bush because he was really the best president who didn't win the popular vote (although Rutherford B. Hayes is a close 2nd).

Also, I can't wait to see all you evolutionists suck on lemons when Nikkie Haley gets into office and forgets to pay her taxes, but luckily she won't have to worry about it because Jesus again will come down from h-town riding his velociraptor and high five all of us TRUE republicans and we will be able to tell you libtards to suck it.

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Posted by monkeys are stupid on October 4, 2010 at 11:04 AM

Actually, if Christ or anyone else comes riding into town on a no-kidding velociraptor to deliver an endorsement, I'll say right now that it will sway my vote immediately. Hell yes!

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Posted by factoryconnection on October 4, 2010 at 12:09 PM

Maybe I can get a pet velociraptor to eat the neighborhood barking dogs.
And maybe I can get a Triceratops to ride around on, like Reagan in that old music video.

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Posted by FCB on October 4, 2010 at 2:01 PM

The notion that one senator can bring the senate to a standstill is ludicrously anti-democratic,

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Posted by Sark on October 4, 2010 at 6:08 PM
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