DeMint to leave Senate; 2014 now even more interesting
Just when it looked like Georgia’s 2014 GOP primary might attract the most national attention, with Sen. Saxby Chambliss facing a likely challenge from his right, South Carolina upped the ante significantly. Jim DeMint, the Palmetto State’s arch-conservative senator, said today he is resigning his seat to take over as leader of the Heritage Foundation.
Initial reports are that South Carolina law calls for the governor to appoint DeMint’s replacement, who would then stand for election in 2014. The state’s other senator, Lindsey Graham, is also up for re-election that year and there’s speculation that he’ll also be challenged by another Republican. That could make for quite a twin-bill in South Carolina’s 2014 GOP primary — not to mention that Gov. Nikki Haley faces some dissension from within her own ranks and might not cruise to re-election herself. Graham and even Chambliss might be breathing a little easier this morning, knowing the activists’ attention and money will now be spread around a little more widely.
Meanwhile, all eyes will be on Haley for her choice as DeMint’s replacement. DeMint is renowned as one of the Senate’s most conservative members and a leader for the tea-party senators elected since 2010. While the Senate will remain under Democratic control for at least two more years, the difference between a replacement as ideologically firm as DeMint and one closer to Graham could loom large — particularly given Democrats’ threatened reform of the filibuster.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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Cheesy Grits is gone but not forgotten
December 6th, 2012
5:42 pm
Saxby Chambliss
A man who actually called Max Cleland Un-American while ignoring the fact that Cleland left several limbs fighting for his country in Vietnam while Silver Spoon Saxby sat on his rear.
Id kind of like to see him get eaten by his own. He deserves it.
getalife
December 6th, 2012
5:43 pm
The gop decided you cons are the problem and tossed you under the bus.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
December 6th, 2012
5:45 pm
Absolutely correct, AmVet, however NO ONE has to read your posts, because reading one is like reading any of them.
Not an original post from you (or thought) in over 30 years.
Politico
December 6th, 2012
5:46 pm
Jamvet
Tiberius will probably ignore you tonight to pretend he doesn’t react like a child to your posts. Tomorrow he will be right back to the tried and true
Politico
December 6th, 2012
5:48 pm
Jam
My bad. You knew better than I that Tiberius has no self control.
He couldn’t let it go.
You called it.
@@
December 6th, 2012
5:51 pm
NO ONE has to read your (AmVet’s) posts, because reading one is like reading any of them.
True THAT!!!!
getalife
December 6th, 2012
5:54 pm
I read them and they are consistent.
You cons are all over the place and lost without a party.
Happy legal weed day.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
December 6th, 2012
5:55 pm
Politico, your faux poutrage is noted.
However, given your error prone posting history, it is also dismissed.
JamVet
December 6th, 2012
5:55 pm
Politico,
And his petulant brat routine has caused him to be a serially banned train wreck.
But he loves the negative attention from me.
(He’s the new @@…)
Dusty
December 6th, 2012
5:57 pm
Hi Amvet,
My broom is just fine.
When do you want your exocism? It’s covered under the Voodoo Section of ObamaCare.
(Pork chops smoking! Bye.).
Johnny Boy says
December 6th, 2012
5:59 pm
Hey Kyle,
You are really attracting a crowd. Means more money for you, more prestige, all the great things that go with attracting such a crowd to your comments !!! You are fairing quite nicely, keep it up.
My only question is, how do you attract so many liberal racist ? How do you get them to not only read (!!) your column, but then they even comment ??? Are all liberal racist democrats so bored or out of work, or both, that they have time to read your stuff and then spew their hurl all over your words ??
Just wondering….. but not wandering…
@@
December 6th, 2012
6:00 pm
But he loves the negative attention from me.
(He’s the new @@…)
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Johnny Boy says
December 6th, 2012
6:02 pm
Hope I didn’t jinx you !!
Get a grip Dems
December 6th, 2012
6:13 pm
John Q – lovin’ livin’ in the Obama boom!!! Says:
December 6th, 2012 at 12:06 pm
Oh, I guess a third comment is in order:
3. Boy oh boy oh boy are Regressives two-faced hypocritical unprincipled liars.
John Q!
Obvious that you need to go get back in line as on of the 47% ers that I am busting my ass to support! Wish Libs had constructive comments
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
December 6th, 2012
6:22 pm
And how many times have we seen the “serially banned” comment from the repetitive one?
Not an original thought or post in over 30 years.
And proving it with each successive post.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
December 6th, 2012
6:25 pm
Johnny boy, you don’t have to use liberal racist Democrats in the same sentence.
They’re one in the same.
Politico
December 6th, 2012
6:25 pm
Tiberious
The faux alpha tough blogger wannabe
Since Kyle hasn’t made you official deputy… Go shine your plastic badge and get back to the rest of us….little fella
Maybe CC, LLB and yourself can have a midget mind wrestling contest
Hahahahahahahaha
Quasha
December 6th, 2012
6:28 pm
When South Carolina (and Georgia) Republicans picked Gingrich in the primary it just reinforced how marginal and irrelevant they’ve become.
Maybe the guv will reappoint Strom Thurmond to the Senate – wasn’t he cryogenically preserved?
Politico
December 6th, 2012
6:29 pm
Tiberious
Tell someone to surrender and ask Kyle for your victory prize..
Maybe say “color me shocked”
Oh weak one… Yes I didn’t say wise
Hhahahahahahahah
Get a grip Dems
December 6th, 2012
6:31 pm
What’s a quasha?
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
December 6th, 2012
6:31 pm
Politico, you used this same “tough Guy” response to others yesterday on another thread. Your repetitiveness is glaring.
Are you and AmVet related?
Or is this just your canned response when caught in your inevitable errors?
ODD OWL
December 6th, 2012
6:32 pm
What i want to know is when the hell are Nathan “No Show” Deal and the Tea Party crazies who control the Georgia state legislature are going to do something about this 10% unemployment in Georgia… These No Show Deal, tea partying Republicans are lazy, shiftless laggards… Jenkins County have an astronomical unemployment rate of 16.9 %… This is outrageous… Deal need to get off his tail and do something about all of these Georgians being out of work or he and all the Republicans in the legislature must summit their resignation and get the hell out… The unemployment rate has been over 8% for ten years now, ever since that fat clown Sonny “Do What” Perdue became Governor and enriched himself and built his retirement mansion on lake Oconee… The Republicans have become a problem in the state of Georgia… If we Democrats get rid of these Republicans, we can get rid of the problem…
JamVet
December 6th, 2012
6:33 pm
So how many times have you been banned, tibs? And don’t divide by three like you normally do! (grin)
So the Lily White Party – which has LESS than 10% non-white representation- says the liberals are the racists.
Hysterical.
Keep up the good work, boys!
One day all of those stupid, lazy black mooches will see that you really were their best friends!
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
December 6th, 2012
6:36 pm
Repetive, AmVet.
But it would be redundant of me to point that out, wouldn’t it?
ODD OWL
December 6th, 2012
6:38 pm
We Democrats are working hard to convince 19 House Republicans to cross the aisle and join the Democrat party, and make Nancy Pelosi Speaker again… Then we could get something done… If not, then We the people will wait until 2014 when the Democrats will sweep all the tea party Republicans out of Congress… Obamanism = Forward…
Politico
December 6th, 2012
6:41 pm
Tiberious
It is an insult, nothing about you is tough….
Name the gym and time, tough guy
Don’t know you but I do love to spar in boxing and kick boxing…
Let me know if you would like to workout sometime… Not so tough guy
Outside of that… Keep being the blathering lonely sole you know yourself to be
Have an awesome night and weekend and don’t forget to get your last not so tough guy word in…… After all, you need an emotional boost of any kind
JamVet
December 6th, 2012
6:41 pm
Tibs wants desperately to be the King of the Mountain here, Politico.
After all it is the only mountain left to him. (He’s been a very bad boy.)
But alas, his maniacal desire to have this place as his little fiefdom is not working out so well for him.
So he has been reduced to almost nothing more than impotent endless sniping.
LOL.
The tide is turning and the trickle downers are in trouble…
More and more Republicans want House leaders to back off their no-higher-taxes-for-the-wealthy war cry and concentrate on a major deal to the costs of Medicare and Social Security, The Washington Post reports.
Meanwhile, a GOP source tells CNN Republicans and the president have agreed the rich will pay more, but how much and what concessions Obama will offer in exchange remain to be hammered out.
By stepping away from their earlier stance, the GOP would be bowing to President Barack Obama, who insists he’s ready to take the plunge over the fiscal cliff unless he’s allowed to raise taxes on the wealthiest 2 percent of taxpayers.
“I and some others are advocating giving the president what he wants,” Ohio Rep. Steven C. LaTourette,’’ told the newspaper, adding that in exchange, a deal must be made to slow the deal federal borrowing reduce the debt up to $5 trillion.
“Quite frankly, some people in this 2 percent who call me, they’re more worried about the fiscal cliff than about the rates going up a couple points. That has bigger risk for them.”
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), a champion of smaller government, echoed LaTourette.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/gop-boehner-compromise-fiscal/2012/12/06/id/466798
Archibald Leach
December 6th, 2012
6:41 pm
Very sad in America when Kyle says being a lobbyist is “probably one of the best, most influential jobs in D.C.”
Kyle, what do you think of Mitch McConnell filibustering his own bill?
md
December 6th, 2012
6:43 pm
“The gop are purging their cons like the ME purging their dictators.”
Not sure how to interpret that considering the ME seems to be swapping one dictator for another…..from military rule to theocracy, neither is very appealing but the theocracy really sounds scary. The women of Egypt are rightly concerned.
Politico
December 6th, 2012
6:45 pm
Jam
Ole tibs has cotten candy hands and mind
He is a riot, but don’t get him worked up so he gets banned
Outside of Little Brain, he is the best laughs on the AJC blogs
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
December 6th, 2012
6:47 pm
Democrats working hard.
Odd owl, you’re too funny!”!!!
Politico
December 6th, 2012
6:48 pm
Jam
Tibs wanted to be King elsewhere, but that was before my time..
How did that work out?
Did his nasty name calling and attitude get him sent packing or is that AJC blog rumor?
The Kid
December 6th, 2012
6:49 pm
If we have to, we’ll whup the confederates another time for good measure. As you can see, you are slowly being pushed underground anyway. So get your guns and bibles and follow your leaders Rush, Hannity and Beck into oblivion because that’s where you are going. The hate you spew is no different than what the Taliban does in the Middle East. People like Demint and Graham hates the fact that a black man is Pres. Poor McConnell is going to have a heart attack if he doesn’t just go on and quit. A black man president; my word.
md
December 6th, 2012
6:52 pm
Race card, page 3. Is that really all you have?
Politico
December 6th, 2012
7:23 pm
The Republican Senators are falling to the wayside…
They know the inevitable. It is only a foreshadowing before the Republican controlled House melts. Of course it will not be a total meltdown, as Tibs does daily on this blog, however it will be enough in numbers that Obama
will chap that a$$ yet again..
Mark this and call me on it, if it doesn’t occur, but the Repubs in the House are only playing short term PR games…. They already know the end result
@@
December 6th, 2012
7:26 pm
Name the gym and time, tough guy
Unbelievable.
Tibs wanted to be King elsewhere, but that was before my time..
Sure it was. Again…unbelievable.
Politico
December 6th, 2012
7:30 pm
@@
He talks big, but walks small
His problem, not mine..
You know it but for political reasons can’t help yourself but respond
100 shnirts and shnorts
You guys are good when the right talks big on this blog, but can’t handle the response
Oh well… I will sleep good tonight
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
December 6th, 2012
7:37 pm
Its nice to see AmVet and Politico becoming such nice internet buddies instead of their usual searching the web for kiddie porn.
Isn’t that what most libs do with all their free time at the libraries?
@@
December 6th, 2012
7:39 pm
Politico:
His problem, not mine..
Oh contraire! When you challenge him to a physical competition, it would appear you’ve chosen him as YOUR problem.
Pure silliness on your part.
Politico
December 6th, 2012
7:41 pm
Meltdown on the way
What is new?
He has resorted to talking about what he does and projecting onto others…
Such a lonely “President Romney” BOY
Politico
December 6th, 2012
7:45 pm
@@
Oh he is a joke not a problem
A problem takes time to solve..
But play his mommy if it comforts you both
And a workout is what many people do…. Call it a confrontation in your little mind if you must
@@
December 6th, 2012
7:49 pm
Politico:
Go flex your philanges elsewhere.
You’re boring.
Politico
December 6th, 2012
7:50 pm
@@
Holla when you call out Tibs for his meltdown, name calling and bs
Until that time, keep his formula and pacifiers ready as your defense of others who call him out for his bs
Politico
December 6th, 2012
7:52 pm
@@
Wa waaaaaa
Like you always do
CC
December 6th, 2012
7:56 pm
Cherokee@3:34 pm:
Yes, I did . . .
@@
December 6th, 2012
8:01 pm
Like you always do
I thought you were new here.
Wa waaaaaaa?
Bring forth the evidence.
@@
December 6th, 2012
8:07 pm
Politico:
Why should I? I have no problem with meltdowns OR name calling. There’s more than enough bs from both sides.
I DO have a problem with people who complain about name calling. It’s the sticks and stones thingy. Let me know when somebody pokes your eye out with a stick or hits you in the head with a rock. I’ll be there for ‘ya.
Not really. That was bs.
Politico
December 6th, 2012
8:09 pm
@@
Keep whining and let me know when you call out Tibs and other right leaning loud mouths..
You just cry for political stripes. That’s all.
No problem, but your simplicity is what it is.
Now go burp him and give him his last bottle.
Would be much different if you called out folks of all stripes, but you do not and do not have the integrity to do so…. At least not on this blog
Politico
December 6th, 2012
8:13 pm
If you are good with it, why coming running to the defense of your BOY?
Hahahahahahah
Keep whining @@
It is you
Nothing new
It fits, yes the shoe
Cry hard boo hoo hoo
@@
December 6th, 2012
8:14 pm
Would be much different if you called out folks of all stripes, but you do not and do not have the integrity to do so
And I have yet to see you do so, Politico.
So here we are. Now what?