Kind of. Its good for him, but its really good for his colleague, Republican Senate leader Mitch Mcconnell. You see, jim demint is not your ordinary senator. Hes like the Grover Norquist of the senate. Hes the guy the other republican senators are really afraid of. And that is because more so than anyone else and definitely more than any other republican politician, demint is behind the Tea Party Strategy of purifying the Republican Party in the cleansing fire of party primaries. Demint created this pact called the senate conservativist fund, a pact he made into a super pac which makes it more super and exists to help conservative republicans beat other republicans. Since 2009 demint has raised more than 17 million to promote promising candidates in an effort to remake the senate not just in a republican image but in a diehard conservative one. The image of jim demint, even. And he has often done it by going to electoral war with his own party leadership. In the 2012 midterm elections
Tank called the Heritage Foundation where he stands to make Something Like ten times his current salary. Yay for jim demint, good money. Kind of. Its good for him, but its really good for his colleague, Republican Senate leader Mitch Mcconnell. You see, jim demint is not your ordinary senator. Hes like the Grover Norquist of the senate. Hes the guy the other republican senators are really afraid of. And that is because more so than anyone else and definitely more than any other republican politician, demint is behind the Tea Party Strategy of purifying the Republican Party in the cleansing fire of party primaries. Demint created this pac called the senate conservativist fund, a pac he made into a super pac which makes it more super and exists to help conservative republicans beat other republicans. Since 2009 demint has raised more than 17 million to promote promising candidates in an effort to remake the senate not just in a republican image but in a diehard conservative one. The imag
Continuing resolution on the floor right now. Lets get it done. Gentleman yields back. End this republican Government Shutdown. As the chair previously advised, the request cannot be entertained. Im craig melvin. Youre watching msnbc. The house and senate both at work today. House republicans left a morning pep rally saying they have no new proposals. Then all eyes turn to the senate. They took up a plan to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling. That also went nowhere. As the mess continues inside, on the National Mall today, tea Party Founders cleaned up. But who will end the mess that the shutdown is causing for americans . We are following all the latest live from capitol hill. We wish they could find that same kind of innovation in washington, d. C. That we find here in utah. Also ahead, wideopen spaces. Today, several states are reopening National Parks. But at what cost . Well talk about that. And concussion crisis. A new book claims the nfl ignored the link between th
This is the ed show. Lets get to work. Lets allow higher rates to go up for the top 2 . That includes all of you. The president holds the line on taxes and draws the line on the debt ceiling. I will not play that game. Tonight, democratic whip steny hoyer gives me the latest fiscal cliff developments and the democratic line on medicare. Tom perriello from the center of American Progress action fund on how democrats can deal with republicans who cant deal with reality. Rubio and ryan reload with a new message for the middle class. Both parties tend to divide americans into our voters and their voters. But there is no escaping their own policies. Were going to a majority of takers versus makers in america. Dnc chair Debbie Wasserman schultz responds tonight. Plus, senator Barbara Boxer on her new plan for National Polling place standards. And a new poll shows half of all republicans think the defunct group a. C. O. R. N. Stole the election from president obama. Thats an eye opener. I won
Make Something Like ten times his current salary. Yay for jim demint, good money. Kind of. Its good for him, but its really good for his colleague, Republican Senate leader Mitch Mcconnell. You see, jim demint is not your ordinary senator. Hes like the Grover Norquist of the senate. Hes the guy the other republican senators are really afraid of. And that is because moreso than anyone else and definitely more than any other republican politician, demint is behind the Tea Party Strategy of purifying the Republican Party in the cleansing fire of party primaries. Demint created this pact called the senate conservativist fund, a pact he made into a super pac which makes it more super and exists to help conservative republicans beat other republicans. Since 2009 demint has raised more than 17 million to promote promising candidates in an effort to remake the senate not just in a republican image but in a diehard conservative one. The image of jim demint, even. And he has often done it by goi