The Political Chase

Jim DeMint - The Senate Buffoon

If the cretin and junior Senator from South Carolina, Jim DeMint (R), did not sufficiently make a fool of himself during the immigration debates, he indeed did prove himself to be a meshuggeneh this afternoon. DeMint, excuse me, DuhMint stopped Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) from conferencing on a previously agreed upon ethics bill.

DuhMint telephoned (from happy hour or a crack house?) McConnell on the Senate floor, summonsed him to the cloak room and advised McConnell that he objected to the bill. After what must have been a heated and lengthy discussion (quorum call), DuhMint, backed by his nitwit tagalong Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), went to the floor and made his formal objection, which stopped the proceedings.

DuhMint, Roll Call reports, “objected to going to conference on the bill until the Senate internally adopts a set of sweeping rule reforms, which Democrats included in the bill, even though they do not need House or presidential approval.”

DuhMint may have achieved his objective, but he also drew the ire of McConnell, Reid, Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Majority Whip Durbin (D-IL), and Barbara Boxer (D-CA). Harry Reid, with control of the floor, blasted DuhMint for his shenanigans.

“Here we are, seconds from going to conference and a call comes in to the Republican cloak room. I understand the Minority Leader has a responsibility to take that … but the eyes of the nation are on us,” Reid said, adding that “to not let us go to conference on some petty issue that my friend has raised is really bad.”

What prompted DuhMint to pull this stunt that infuriated his Minority Leader and other leading Senators? He said, “I didn’t know they were going to do that today.”

I recognize I came down hard on DeMint and to a lesser degree Coburn; that is not the norm for me. That notwithstanding, I have knowledge of DeMint spanning back to his days in state level politics in SC. He has a long history of getting nothing done except screwing something positive up. Based upon what I have observed of Coburn in the Senate, they’re a perfect match. Empty suits.

This article was revised June 29, 2007 at 8:49 PM

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