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...hard to sell on Election Day. Democrats kicked up a similar ruckus during the 2005 passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug Program, when majority leader Tom DeLay threatened to derail the congressional candidacy of one member's son and threatened to withhold funds for then Representative Jim DeMint's Senate race if he didn't vote for the bill. On final passage of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) later that year, to gain Representative Robin Hayes' vote, GOP leaders promised that they would help steer business to a textile company in his district. But these threats, sweetheart deals...
They wouldn't be the only ones enjoying a moment of levity amid the cataclysmic weather. "It's going to keep snowing in D.C. until Al Gore cries uncle," Republican Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina wrote on Twitter. But with the snow still falling, locals took advantage of the time off to tromp through the picturesque drifts piling up on mostly vacant streets. In the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, where a Facebook-fueled flash mob engaged in a massive snowball fight on Saturday, residents skied through deserted intersections, shoveled off stoops and walked their dogs - trying, perhaps...
...DEMINT, Republican Senator from South Carolina, comparing President Barack Obama's bid to overhaul the nation's health care system to the battle that dethroned Napoléon Bonaparte --JULY...
...left flank against his moderate supporters. Meanwhile, Republicans have found some traction on the economy, for which Americans traditionally blame, for good or ill, the guy who calls 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue home. As soon as Obama finished speaking, his foes pulled out their knives too. South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint called Obama "delusional" and "out of control...
...Republicans, for their part, did not hesitate to dig in their rhetorical knives. South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint called Obama "delusional" and "out of control" in an interview on Fox News. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky called the President's proposal "another spending spree." Virginia's Eric Cantor, the House Republican whip, told one conservative website, "Clearly the White House has taken the position that deficits don't matter." (See pictures of Republican memorabilia...