Jim DeMint...Good Bye & Good Riddance!

Mr. DeMint is was among the most conservative members of the Senate.   This tea party-aligned self-described "citizen legislator" pushed for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.   He strongly opposed abortion rights and same-sex marriage, and called the national health care law and the bail out of Wall Street "unconstitutional power grabs" by the government.   Mr. DeMint, Mr. Cantor, Mr. Ryan and my favorite buddy, Newt Gingrich, were determined to undermine the Presidency of Barack Obama!

Although Mr. DeMint is gone...he’s planning to head up the Heritage Foundation...a conservative think tank.   As an aside, South Carolina's senior senator, Lindsey Graham (my other buddy), is also up for reelection in 2014, as is Gov. Nikki Haley.   That means the state will have two Senate races and a governor's race in the 2014 cycle.   I don’t live in South Carolina...but I have a few friends that live there!   I need to call these folks.

But there’s already talk that Governor Nikki Haley is considering this Allen West-like buffoon, Tim Scott, to replace DeMint.

Where do they find these people?