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DeMint: ‘Joe Wilson Was Telling the Truth’

By | 09.12.09 | 5:56 pm

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), the congressman who shouted “you lie” during President Obama’s health care address to Congress, was probably the biggest hero at today’s Tea Party rally in Washington. Signs reading “Joe Wilson for President” and “Thanks, Joe” were omnipresent, as were chants of “you lie.”

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DeMint Blames Lack of Tea Party Crowd Diversity on Timing, Media

By | 09.12.09 | 3:58 pm

The turnout to today’s Tea Party was indisputably high — likely in the hundreds tens of thousands (though organizers claimed it reached 1.5 million). But racially diverse it was not. And according to Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), that’s the fault of the event’s timing and the media More…

DeMint: Apply the Constitution to Health Care When It’s Convenient

By | 09.12.09 | 3:49 pm

In a phone interview with TWI following his speech to the Tea Party crowd this afternoon in Washington, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) laid out his philosophy for applying the Constitution to health care. In a nutshell: invoke the Constitution when it’s expedient to do so, ignore it when it’s More…