with you. >> elected to the house in 1998, then to the senate in 2004, demint quickly earned a reputation as a pork buster. >> they are fed up and have had enough of government spending and bail-outs. >> in 2008, he stepped forward, voting against tarp. what turned out to be president bush's bank bail-out. a vote many now cite as the moment of conception of the tea party movement. >> this is a massive government spending program. >> three months later but demint led the crusade against president obama trillion-dollar stimulus package. that effort failed. but left demint even more determined. >> it's like blasting rock. it's not graceful. >> your critics would say perhaps you don't work well with others. how do you respond to that? >> change comes hard. it found the power here is so ingrained and built around the earmark system we have a few people throwing out bread to