Word: demint
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...DeMint can be counted on to sing from the Republican song sheet when he takes his seat in the Senate--except, of course, for those times when he doesn't. The new Senator from South Carolina may never please anyone completely, which may be the best way to please everyone at least a little...
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...DeMint learned a thing or two about making a public impression as a child after his mother started the DeMint Academy of Dance and Decorum in the family home. If too few girls showed up for dance lessons, he was pressed into service, standing in for one. He later married his junior high school sweetheart and went to work in her father's advertising firm--as good a training ground for modern American politics...
...moral values,” a.k.a. religious values, a.k.a. conservative Christian religious values. These voters are likely to side with such newly minted senators as Tom Coburn, R-Okla., who believes that “abortionists” should be punished with the death penalty, and Jim DeMint, R-S.C., who insists that single mothers should not be permitted to teach public school. Fanaticism reigns as in a twenty-first century Salem—but I’m pretty sure that even Roger Chillingsworth would have endorsed stem-cell research...
...with extremist declamations on the culture wars. Bush the son is careful to avoid coarse language about gays and lesbians. As Air Force One flew to South Carolina last week, the President made clear his opposition to gay marriage but added, "I'm not against anybody," according to Jim DeMint, a Republican Congressman who was aboard. "If some people want to have a contract, that's O.K., but marriage is the foundation of society...