as a huge day in the republican party s continuance of war. something really big happened. south carolina senator jim demint announced today he ll be leaving the senate. he ll not be there anymore. he s leaving to head a think 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. it s good for him, but it s really good for his colleague, republican senate leader mitch mcconnell. you see, jim demint is not your ordinary senator. he s like the grover norquist of the senate. he s 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 he
south carolina senator jim demint announced today he ll be leaving the senate. he ll not be there anymore. he s leaving to head a think 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. it s good for him, but it s really good for his colleague, republican senate leader mitch mcconnell. you see, jim demint is not your ordinary senator. he s like the grover norquist of the senate. he s 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 tha
court clerks show the law will be overturned. that s up from 35% who thought that before the oral arguments. it gives the 76% chance of it being overturned. if the court does overturn the mandate, it s almost certainly going to be on a party line vote. what can t be forgotten here, though, what can t be overstated and what frankly makes the entire story so unbelievable is that the individual mandate is an idea republicans. republicans thought of in the 1990s, that they supported all through the 2000s, and that democrats didn t fully embrace until 2009. when they embraced it in part because they thought it would help them win republican support for their health care bill. the mandate s big political debut was in 1989, and health care policy plan. in their brief, stewart butler, the foundation s health care expert argued quote many states now require passengers in automobiles to wear seat belts for their own protection, many other require anybody driving a car to have liability
conservative economist, a guy so revered by republicans that in a debate last year, mitt romney said he wished he could bringham back from the dead to put him in charge of the federal reserve. he proposed a requirement that every u.s. family unit have a major medical inshrjs policy. okay, you might say these are just conservative intellectuals, doesn tprieve anything about the republican party. fast forward to 1993, the day republican senator jon chaffee of rhode island introduced his party s alternative to the clinton bill. mr. president, i m very pleased today to join with 19 of my colleagues in introducing the health equity and access reform today act of 1993. this is our health care bill, mr. president, presented on behalf of the republican senate to the health care tax force and the co sponsors of the legislation are senators dole, bond, hatfield, bennett, hatch, danforth, brown, gordon, simpson, stevens, cohen. senator warner, spectser, luger. to start, i want to than
the professors writing is widely known. he has written over 100 articles. opinion pieces in publications, like the wall street journal, and he is a frequent contributor. he was awarded a guggenheim award in 2008. but that was not his greatest accomplishment in 2008. in that year, he also portrayed a prosecutor. and according to the movie database, imdb, it is a science- fiction thriller. finally, i should say he isn t active advocate. in 2004, the professor argued the medical marijuana case before the supreme court. he is now one of the lawyers representing the national federation in their challenge to the affordable care act. our other debater is equally renowned. the professor is a professor at stanford law school, where she also works with the supreme court litigation clinic. she has published numerous articles. she writes a bi monthly column for the boston review on legal issues, and like the professor, she is also accomplish, having worked on more than seven cases, befor