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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Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
December 7th, 2012
9:51 am
Salary.com says average CEO pay in the U.S. is $733K. That would make average worker pay less than $2000 a year.
Try again.
Cheesy Grits is gone but not forgotten
December 7th, 2012
9:55 am
Ahhhhh. The racism card.
Used when the terminally stupid have nothing else to write.
Ahhh Denying it.
Used when the stupid among us just cant bury their head in the sand any longer.
I live in the real world my friend and if you think racism isn’t alive and well, well just look at the Republican party leadership.
All white.
Cheesy Grits is gone but not forgotten
December 7th, 2012
9:56 am
The average CEO pay of companies in the S&P 500 Index rose to $12.94 million in 2011. Overall, the average level of CEO pay in the S&P 500 Index increased 13.9 percent in 2011, following a 22.8 percent increase in CEO pay in 2010.
I think that’s what he was referring too.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
9:57 am
Liberals don’t hate the rich.
They just want their money without having to do anything for it.
In the real world we call this theft.
Cheesy Grits is gone but not forgotten
December 7th, 2012
9:57 am
Average CEO Pay 2011 Nearly $10 Million At Public Companies: AP Study
Or that
HDB
December 7th, 2012
9:57 am
Tiberius – pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
9:47 am
Tibbi…there WERE people that gained employment under the first stimulus!! Remember when all of those Republican CONGRESSMEN were having their pictures taken by projects FUNDED by the stimulus package while simultaneously DECRYING the stimulus!! What about PAUL RYAN…who asked for stimulus funding for his Janesville District??
Also, Tibbi….if you review history and correlated economic expansion vs tax rates….note that the greatest expansions occurred when tax rates were their HIGHEST (Eisenhower is the prime example!). There are points where higher tax rates have diminishing returns….and points where lower tax rates have diminishing returns; what has to be found is the median………
Cheesy Grits is gone but not forgotten
December 7th, 2012
9:58 am
Here are some additional stats to put the oh! in CEO:
– 725%: That’s how much average CEO compensation increased between 1978 and 2011, according to EPI.
– 5.7%: That’s how much the average worker’s compensation increased over the same period.
or that
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
December 7th, 2012
9:58 am
So get a CEO job, whiner.
Cheesy Grits is gone but not forgotten
December 7th, 2012
10:00 am
Liberals don’t hate the rich.
They just want their money without having to do anything for it.
In the real world we call this theft.
Im a liberal. I work very hard for my money
Try again.
You know who doesn’t work for their money. Country Club Republicans and their trust fund babies.
HDB
December 7th, 2012
10:00 am
Tiberius – pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
9:57 am
Liberals don’t hate the rich.
They just want their money without having to do anything for it.
In the real world we call this theft.”
Try this, Tibbi:
Conservatives don’t hate the poor; they just want them to work without paying them for their labor!
In the real world, we call that slavery!
Same corollary………………
Cheesy Grits is gone but not forgotten
December 7th, 2012
10:02 am
Conservatives don’t hate the poor; they just want them to work without paying them for their labor!
In the real world, we call that slavery!
Same corollary………………
LOL I gotta remember that one. Well done.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
10:04 am
Cheesy, in case you missed it (and you always do), some people don’t cherry-pick people based on the color of their skin, but for their accomplishments.
Liberals – the ultimate racial and religious bigots.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
10:05 am
“Im a liberal. I work very hard for my money”
LOL. Not when you troll on this blog 24/7, Cheesy. What public library are you using right now?
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
10:08 am
“Also, Tibbi….if you review history and correlated economic expansion vs tax rates….note that the greatest expansions occurred when tax rates were their HIGHEST”
How many times do I have to repeat to you that tax rates alone have nothing to do with economic stimulus, HDB, before it sinks in?
An economist, you’re not.
HDB
December 7th, 2012
10:08 am
Tiberius – pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
10:04 am
Tibbi, in case you missed it (and you sometimes do), some people DO cherry-pick people based on the color of their skin, AND for their accomplishments…AND their RELIGION!! Lest you forget the owners of a Subway restaurant in Louisiana for REFUSED to serve a couple because the y were Muslim; that owner is a REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN!!
Conservatives – the ultimate racial, economic and religious bigots.
I can show you the other side as well, Tibbi………
Cheesy Grits is gone but not forgotten
December 7th, 2012
10:09 am
LOL. Not when you troll on this blog 24/7, Cheesy. What public library are you using right now?
Have dual monitors at work.
I post on her on one and work off the other one.
I do fine dont worry about me.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
10:10 am
“Conservatives don’t hate the poor; they just want them to work without paying them for their labor!
In the real world, we call that slavery!”
HDB, the problem is that taking from the rich is a real world issue.
Not paying people for their work is simply a fantasy on your part. Please provide any instances in today’s world where people aren’t paid for their labor.
Ronald Reagan
December 7th, 2012
10:11 am
Mr. Wingfield you are a gifted writer unlike your “cut & paste” cohort Mr. Bookman. You are a credit to your community! Jeb in ‘16!
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
10:12 am
“I post on her on one and work off the other one.”
So you admit that you lied when you said you worked hard for your money, Cheesy. Thanks for finally admitting to one of your lies.
If you can spend all day on here and “work” at the same time, you’re not working very hard.
HDB
December 7th, 2012
10:12 am
Tiberius – pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
10:08 am
I never said tax rates ALONE…but tax rates are a FACTOR, Tibbi. We all know that the higher the tax rates, the more someone searches for deductions to offset such! Business investments, salaries, equipment purchases, et. al.: all are used to offset taxable business income!! The greater the investment…the greater the deduction…and the LOWER the applicable tax rate will be due to the decline in income!! Right???
Cheesy Grits is gone but not forgotten
December 7th, 2012
10:12 am
In case any of you sane people ( liberals ) missed it Jon Stewart did a great thing on the Fox News phony ” War on Christmas” bs.
Nobody could watch that and actually take them seriously anymore.
Nobody with functioning grey matter that is.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/04/jon-stewart-fox-news-war-on-christmas-video_n_2237279.html
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
10:14 am
“Lest you forget the owners of a Subway restaurant in Louisiana for REFUSED to serve a couple because the y were Muslim; that owner is a REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN!!”
And do you have proof that the owner ordered their employees to refuse that service, or was this just a case of having substandard employees in place?
You always paint with a very broad brush, HDB.
Old Timer
December 7th, 2012
10:14 am
Today–December 7 is the day the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor putting the United states in WWII. A day of Infamy. The world changed and unfortunately we have politicans today that have short memories and self centered motives, I remembered where I was that day, and those that weren’t around then will make the same mistakes. History will repeat itself and it is not pretty. Todays populus could not stand the inconviences of a real war. God Bless our Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen.
Cheesy Grits is gone but not forgotten
December 7th, 2012
10:15 am
If you can spend all day on here and “work” at the same time, you’re not working very hard.
LOL
No im just really smart and can do more than one thing at a time.
Trust me keeping up with you and the other mental midgets isn’t very taxing.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
10:15 am
“I never said tax rates ALONE”
No, you always left that word out, yet made your case solely on the tax rates, HDB.
Nice back-pedaling.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
10:17 am
Yeah, Cheesy. I always turn to a little-watched entertainer for my news.
HDB
December 7th, 2012
10:19 am
Tiberius – pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
10:10 am
HDB, the problem is that taking from the rich is a real world issue.
Not paying people for their work is simply a fantasy on your part.”
Really, Tibbi….the DECLINE in income by those in the middle class vs the INCREASE in wealth by the wealthy is indicative that that people aren’t getting paid for their labor! The desire to create environments whereas wage levels are depressed primarily to increase corporate profitability is indicative of people not being paid for their work!!
Wise man told me: “If you’re working for the money rather than the money working for you, you’re in SLAVERY!”
Cheesy Grits is gone but not forgotten
December 7th, 2012
10:22 am
Yeah, Cheesy. I always turn to a little-watched entertainer for my news.
LOL. you must be really really old.
Jon Stewart has a very large audience. And among the younger crowd he is very popular.
Compare to Fox News whose audience is very old with one foot in the grave.
Anyway. See ya guys a little later.
Keep up the good word.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
10:23 am
“the DECLINE in income by those in the middle class vs the INCREASE in wealth by the wealthy is indicative that that people aren’t getting paid for their labor!”
Maybe you need to brush up on your English language skills, HDB, or maybe you just need to dial down the hyperbole a bit.
One cannot have a decline in income if one isn’t getting paid. So that completely debunks your slavery bit, doesn’t it?
Hillbilly D
December 7th, 2012
10:24 am
If you simply raise the rates, the rich will simply do what the always (and rightly) do, which is to find ways to save taxes through different deductions. In other words, you’re not going to get another dime from the rich because their effective rate will never change.
The reason that doesn’t change is because of the people writing the laws (i.e. Congress). Whether Democrat or Republican, every one of them is part of the upper echelon, if not when they first get elected, after a couple years at the public trough. To change the law would impact them and they’re not going to have that. So they play their semantic games and lie through their teeth, knowing that they need to talk a good game but protecting the status quo is in their own best interest.
That’s why they go for a small percentage increase, rather than cutting deductions, credits, subsidies, etc. They know which side their bread is buttered on.
But you’re right, “raising the rates” is just like the inheritance tax. The only people who pay inheritance tax are small businessmen and farmers, trying to pass things on to their children. Is anybody really naive enough to think that a Kennedy, Rockefeller, Bush, etc, is ever going to pay an inheritance tax? They have the knowledge and the means to walk right around it.
The only way for this to work is to tax all income the same, take away all the deductions, credits, etc. and charge everybody the same rate. And that’s never going to happen. Too many people make too much money gaming the system that we already have and that they know, oh so well.
Steve
December 7th, 2012
10:28 am
So sad how you Confederates hate America so much. Too bad. You lost the Civil war, slavery is illegal, and the Dems are roaring ahead in 2014 and 2016 due to the economy improving DESPITE what’s going on in Europe and Asia.
You lost!
HDB
December 7th, 2012
10:28 am
Tiberius – pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
10:14 am
“You always paint with a very broad brush, HDB.”
I’m only painting what has been made evident, Tibbi! If you go and review HISTORY, you will determine that it’s always a CONSERVATIVE faction that wants to DENY other people!! Conservatives want to burn Qurans; conservatives want to deny rights and access; conservaitves want to depress wage levels………
Don’t blame me for what the preponderance of your ilk have done throughout history!! Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it…….
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
10:32 am
“Jon Stewart has a very large audience. ”
The Daily Show has an audience averaging 1.8 million viewers.
In a country of over 325 million people.
Nope, Cheesy, he doesn’t.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
10:35 am
I see HDB hasn’t yet figured out the meaning of “hyperbolic rant” yet . . .
CC
December 7th, 2012
10:58 am
When the Christmas season is over and all the temperary jobs disappear with its departure, I wonder who you libs will blame for the RISE in the unemployment rate?
“I have a friend who works at a Technical College. The type where they just train people to go straight to work. She works in Career Services and she says the job market is looking better and better each month. They are having zero problems placing graduates. Her exact quote ” Everybody is hiring ‘”
And what else would you expect her to say? Her continued employment is dependent upon attracting students to that facility, and if no jobs are found after the echooling their number of students would drop. That’s pretty simple to understand.
HDB
December 7th, 2012
10:59 am
Tiberius – pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
10:35 am
Haven’t gotten to hyperbolic stage yet, Tibbi…..I’m still subsonic!!
CC
December 7th, 2012
11:00 am
John Q is the original Obama puppet!
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
11:04 am
“You’re probably this blog’s most prolific misreant . . . er, poster.”
Shall we count my posts vs. yours over the past 3 days, John Q?
Didn’t think you . . .
JDW
December 7th, 2012
11:07 am
@Tiberius…”Specifics”
I understand you are really unfamilar with the concept of leading. See the Presidents job in this case is to lay out the broad outline, which he has done. It is now up to the Congress to hash out the details and the sooner the Republicans get on board the sooner it will be done.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
December 7th, 2012
11:12 am
How about Harry Reid’s total smack down of Mitch McConnell in the Senate yesterday?
CLASSIC!
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
December 7th, 2012
11:12 am
JDW’s knowledge of our Constitution is weak-to-nonexistent, as would be expected for a Democrat.
the red herring
December 7th, 2012
11:13 am
DeMint will be missed in the senate. He will be an asset to The Heritage Foundation which if people will actually read their research and ideas they would see that it is basic common sense. DeMint was one of the few people in government that actually used common sense so he will be missed.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
December 7th, 2012
11:14 am
And what else would you expect her to say?
Cons can find a conspiracy brewing in a bowl of tea. No wonder Fox News is so popular – its target audience is the most gullible bunch of peeps in the world.
CC
December 7th, 2012
11:16 am
Finn:
Just go back to reading “Dalon”. It’s far closer to your intellectual level . . .
HDB
December 7th, 2012
11:28 am
Tiberius – pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 7th, 2012
10:35 am
I see HDB hasn’t yet figured out the meaning of “hyperbolic rant” yet . . .
..and to expand further….I’m not hyperbolic nor parabolic!! I’m more linear and subsonic…….but based in fact……
CC
December 7th, 2012
11:37 am
Finn:
Just go back to reading “Salon”. It’s far closer to your intellectual level . . .
Here's Johnny
December 7th, 2012
12:21 pm
Finn
McConnel had to filibuster his own bill when Reid called his bluff
Classic….
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 7th, 2012
2:19 pm
Team Obama said in ’09 stimulus would have unemployment below 6% by 2012
B b b b b but, it’s Bushie’s fault.