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      <excerpt> &#8220;I think health care is a privilege, I wouldn&amp;#39;t call it a right,&#8221; Sen. Jim demint. &#8220;I don&amp;#39;t have to read it or know what&amp;#39;s in it. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Tom McClintock, a conservative California hero, along with South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint. But Ms. Fiorina is supported by stalwart Republican conservative ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Jim demint and Joe Wilson are like Big and Little Enos Burdette, the evil Texans who orchestrate the whole thing in the 1977 Burt Reynolds vehicle. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Jim DeMint and Lindsey Graham &#8212; should stand firm against a government-funded public option when debate begins next week on a Senate health-care reform ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...coalition of Republican and moderate Democratic senators including Republican Sens. Jim DeMint and Lindsey Graham should stand firm against a government-funded public option when debate begins next week on a Senate health-care reform proposal. Including</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> South Carolina&amp;#39;s junior senator, Jim DeMint wants term limits for members of the House and the Senate. DeMint replaced a long time Democratic senator, ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...County judge. But this month, the coalition backed Democrats in Washington who rejected an appropriations amendment by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., that would have provided funds for more pedestrian fencing. Aranda said the real challenge on the border now </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> But this month, the coalition backed Democrats in Washington who rejected an appropriations amendment by Sen. Jim demint, RS.C., that would have provided ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> I am thankful for Mike Pence and Jim demint being leading voices of conservatism in the House and Senate. I am thankful for Jim demint&amp;#39;s Senate ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> But once again, the plan&amp;#39;s gotten an underwhelming reception - just three senators have signed on to South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint&amp;#39;s new bill, ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>In 2004, despite the fact that in the U.S. Conference of Bishops&amp;#39; voter guide Senator Kerry beat President Bush in every issue category, including protecting human life and promoting family life, Kerry was ambushed by a number of U.S.  cardinals and bi</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Someone else who understood the implications was the ultra-right Republican senator for south Carolina Jim DeMint. DeMint had become an unofficial spokesman for the coup regime and was intent on doing everything possible to ensure its ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Marco Rubio has Senator Jim DeMint in his corner; Marco Rubio has pundits Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity singing his praises; Marco Rubio has RedState, one of the more influential Republican Blogs, backing him; and , of course, ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>In July, Republican Senator Jim DeMint observed: &amp;quot;If we&amp;#39;re able to stop Obama on this [health care], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.&amp;quot; Republicans became the Party of No, waging a perpetual political campaign to discredit ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>But if Castle becomes a poor-man&amp;#39;s Jim DeMint, he can still be eligible for support from the political party he has been a member to all his adult life. That might explain why Illinois Senate aspirant Mark Kirk is trying hard to rebuild ...</excerpt>
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