Jim DeMint Quotes
What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promised when they ran for election, and fight to stop Obamacare.
DeMint, Jim. Falling in Love with America Again. Center Street, 2014, p. 88.
Cruz, a freshman senator with little political experience was elected with extensive Tea Party support in the Texas Republican primary where the Texas real contest is. He was so fanatical that when he could not get his fellow Republican Senators to shut down the government unless President Obama would not implement Obamacare which was enacted by the Congress and declared Constitutional by the Supreme Court. He then turned to the House of Representatives where there were a number of Tea Party Republicans. He helped lead a shutdown of the government, naively expecting the President to give up on his signature legislation. When he did not, the American public was angry at the Republicans for shutting down the government and costing the taxpayers over $80 billion dollars and inconveniencing many Americans. Finally, the House Speaker allowed an open vote and the Reasonable Republicans and the Democrats easily passed a continuing resolution to get the Government open again. However, another debt ceiling extension was coming up for a vote, and even after alienating most of his senior Republican Senate Colleagues and a large part of the American public, he gave this response to a journalist who asked if after the last fiasco, he would try to shut down the government again.
James Warren DeMint is an American political advocate, businessman, author, and retired politician who served as a United States Senator from South Carolina and as president of the Heritage Foundation. DeMint is a member of the Republican Party and a leading figure in the Tea Party movement; he is also the founder of the Senate Conservatives Fund.
