If Liz were Queen

Senator DeMint, did you know William Carroll Pitts?  I doubt it. Yet the two of you were only a year apart in age and both of you were from South Carolina.  You are alive because you have government health insurance.  He is dead because he did not.  Ironic that just this month (Oct. 2009) I read that you were stumping for re-election in Sumter.  That’s where William Carroll Pitts lived. I read that you repeated your mantra about health care being Obama’s “waterloo” while you spoke there.  I couldn’t help but wonder what Mr. Pitts family thought about you and your rabid attachment to a failed right-wing ideology that killed their friend and father.  You get to live in part because you are rich and have government funded health care but Mr. Pitts lost everything–even his life because of the legislation that you tear down.  YOU DON’T DESERVE THE HONOR OF THE SENATE.

His stance against real health care reform is not the only reason to not support Jim DeMint.  There are many other sound reasons for not supporting this right-wing ideologue.

1. First of all there is his voting record which is among the most dismal of all the Republicans in the Senate in terms of supporting middle class issues–[select his name above to see his voting record for the middle class.]

2. Second of all there is his RIDICULOUS waste of the taxpayers’ money last week when he and three other Republican idiots flew down to Honduras to show their support for the illegal right-wing Honduran coup. An act which all taxpayers should demand that he repay all costs.  Talk about INSANITY! He used taxpayer money to show support of  an illegal government whose leaders are avowed racists who use ethnic slurs such as “nigger”  and refer to black people as monkeys.   That is bad enough–but consider that a large percentage of DeMint’s constituents in the state of South Carolina are African Americans!  I guess in the haste of his Quixotic flush to support avowed racists he must have forgotten that the black people of South Carolina now have the right to vote.

3. Numbers 1 and 2 should be quite enough to nail his coffin shut, but DeMint didn’t stop there. Jim DeMint and 30 other Senate Republicans voted to support a man’s right to rape a woman. He joined in with a few other hard-liners who also sealed the demise of their careers on October 6, 2009 to vote against democratic Senator Al Franken’s (D-MN) amendment to a defense-spending bill that prohibits “the Defense Department from contracting with companies that require employees to resolve sexual assault allegations and other claims through arbitration” passed the Senate 68-30.

4. If all the above are not enough proof of DeMint’s upcoming “Waterloo”, his membership in a religious cult called THE FAMILY is another huge negative for DeMint.  Instead of trying to effect a Waterloo for Obama, DeMint and other of his brothers from the C-Street “church” of fornication better be thinking about what they are going to do to save their careers.  It seems as if Pickering kept a diary and he and others did bring women back to the “church” for sex.  They better be working overtime on how they will get out of that one.  Once upon a time I thought that Deacon Tom Coburn could counsel them but Coburn is going to be doing all he can to ward off his own waterloo–what with his own membership in THE FAMILY, his prior counseling of John Ensign AND Coburn’s own recent vote in the senate to endorse rape of women.

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William Carroll Pitts - one of Jim DeMint’s constituents

57, Sumter, SC

ONeal Compton writes:

My best friend was a father of three children and a grandfather of one. He was in the farm implement business. A few years ago, more than 75% of the farmers in our area went broke trying to farm cotton and soybeans in the face of heavily subsidized international imports and also the severe drought that plagued this region of the country. Carroll lost his tractor dealership because he had so many repossessions and bad debts. When he lost his business he lost his health insurance and was unable to afford the cost of private insurance, due to the fact that he had high blood pressure and depression, which, of course were listed as pre-existing conditions. So he went without simple medical care which could have (and according to friends of ours who are doctors probably would have prolonged his life. He suffered a stroke from uncontrolled blood pressure and died last year. I miss my friend.