DeMint calls votes before Christmas 'sacrilegious'

DeMint: Crammed agenda 'sacrilegious'
Published: Dec. 16, 2010 at 11:30 AM Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) speaks to the press following the Democratic Caucus Luncheons on Capitol Hill in Washington on December 14, 2010. Reid said he would keep the Senate in session for as long as needed in order to finish their work on the tax bill, appropriations, DREAM Act, 9/11 Legislation and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." UPI/Kevin Dietsch WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A push by Senate Democrats to ratify an Arms Control ...

Senators Jim DeMint And Jon Kyl Call Democrats Sacrilegious For Pushing Legislation During The Holidays
The more visibility South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint (pictured) gets, the crazier it gets. After failing at a stunt to delay votes, he now questions the faith of Democrats who want to work through the holidays. “We shouldn’t be jamming a major Arms Control treaty up against Christmas; it’s sacrilegious and disrespectful,” he told Politico. “What’s going on here is just wrong. This is the most sacred holiday for Christians. They did the same thing last year - they

DeMint: 'Sacreligious' to vote on START before Christmas
Net Effect: Should we oppose sit-ins just because crazy people can abuse them? The Middle East Channel: Is He trying to tell us something? REALLY, TIME? Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) called Democrats' push to force through an Arms Control treaty and an omnibus spending bill right before Christmas "sacrilegious," and warned he'd draw the process out to wage his objections.  "You can't jam a major Arms Control treaty right before Christmas," he told Politico. "What's go...

Jim DeMint Says Lame-Duck Session Before Christmas Is "Sacrilegious"
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) called Democrats' push to force through an Arms Control treaty and an omnibus spending bill right before Christmas "sacrilegious," and warned he'd draw the process out to wage his objections. "You can't jam a major Arms Control treaty right before Christmas," he told Politico. "What's going on here is just wrong. This is the most sacred holiday for Christians. They did the same thing last year - they kept everybody here until (Christmas Eve) to force something down every...

Backward Christian Soldiers
It’s curious that Senator Jim DeMint should call himself a Christian when his religious beliefs are revealed by his political ones to be in every important respect the opposite of those commanded by the Prince of Peace. This, for instance, is what he considers to be sacrilege: “We shouldn’t be jamming a major Arms Control treaty up against Christmas; it’s sacrilegious and disrespectful,” he told Politico. “What’s going on here is just wrong. This is the most sa...

DeMint is DeCrazy
By Michael J.W. Stickings He's one of the wingnuttiest Republican senators, which is saying something -- yes, he's Jim DeMint of South Carolina! And he wants to paralyze the Senate, and prevent it from doing anything until next year, by forcing readings of the START arms-control bill and an omnibus spending bill. As The Hill explains, such a move "could eat up hours of the remaining lame-duck Congress, 12 for the former and 40 to 60 for the latter. DeMint has backed off on START, meaning that ...

Arms Pact Passes One Test as Senate Acts to Debate It
WASHINGTON — The Senate opened debate on Wednesday on a new arms-control treaty with Russia with an early test vote showing that President Obama is right on the edge of securing its approval. Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, had threatened to request that the entire arms treaty be read aloud. The latest on President Obama, the new Congress and other news from Washington and around the nation. Join the discussion. The Senate voted 66 to 32 to bring the treaty to the floor...

GOP will paralyze Senate floor with reading of 1,924-page spending bill
Republicans will paralyze the Senate floor for 50 hours by forcing clerks to read every single paragraph of the 1,924-page, $1.1 Trillion omnibus spending bill. Senate clerks are expected to read the massive bill in rotating shifts around the clock — taking breaks to drink water and pop throat lozenges  — to keep legislative business on track, according to a Democratic leadership aide. The bill is so long that it took the Government Printing Office two days to print it. The Senate is curr

DeMint: Ramming Bills Through at Christmas Sacrilegious, Read Start and Omnibus Bills on Floor
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) has had about enough of the Democrats and the way they ram bills through right before Christmas. I can’t say I blame him, who isn’t sick of it? Politico reported: Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) called Democrats’ push to force through an Arms Control treaty and an omnibus spending bill right before Christmas “sacrilegious,” and warned he’d draw the process out to wage his objections. “You can’t jam a major Arms Control treaty r...

Sen. DeMint: 'We're trying to run out the clock' on omnibus
Sen. Jim DeMint said Wednesday night that he still plans to force a floor reading of the 1,900-page omnibus spending bill.  DeMint (R-S.C.) said that he would still seek a full reading of the $1.1 Trillion bill after backing away from a similar threat to force a reading of the New START Treaty with Russia on the Senate floor.  "If they bring this up, they're going to read it. It'll take them a day or two to read it," the South Carolina conservative said on Fox News. "Again, we're trying to r...

NBC News Anchor Calls DeMint 'Un-Christlike'
Mere moments after citing Matthew 7's instruction to "judge not, that ye be not judged," Joe Scarborough judged Jon Kyl and Jim DeMint to be "un-Christlike." Scarborough's strange self-contradiction came in the course of his diatribe against the two Republican senators for having criticized Harry Reid for threatening to keep the Senate in session through Christmas....

Kyl and DeMint Think Baby Jesus Doesn't Want Them To Vote On START During Christmas
Oh noes! The War On Christmas takes a slightly bizarre variation as first Sen. Jon Kyl and then Sen. Jim DeMint complain that it's just not right to make them vote on the START Treaty during the Christmas season. I mean, what will Baby Jesus think? To Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's suggestion that the Senate come back the week after Christmas isn't just a way to complete a busy Lame Duck agenda -- but an attack on people of the Christian faith. "It is impossible to do ...

DeMint Calls On Republicans To Force Fall Spending Showdown With Democrats
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) is sending out a warning to his fellow Republicans: Stand tall against Government Spending this fall, and be prepared for a showdown. "[B]efore they're replaced in January, all of the Democrats who are put out of a job in November will be able to come back and rob the nation blind," DeMint writes in the conservative National Review. At a glance it appears DeMint is lashing out at Democrats. But his real concern is that members of his own party -- who he described last w...

DeMint, Kyl and McConnell fight the War on Christmas
Can someone go to hell for blatantly using religion to advance a political agenda? If so, it looks like Senate Republicans are earning themselves express rides to the Inferno. Going on the assumption that they only had to obstruct Senate action until December 17, the presumed end of the lame-duck Congress, they were caught flat-footed when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced they would stay in session through the holidays to finish the job they were hired to do. So they've apparently se...

Biden scolds GOP on treaty: 'Get out of the way'
Vice President Biden issued a stern warning to Senate Republicans to "get out of the way" of Democrats trying to ratify a nuclear arms treaty. The vice president sharply criticized Senate Republicans who have opposed ratification of the New START Treaty during the lame-duck session of Congress. "Get out of the way. There's too much at stake for America's National Security," Biden said in an interview with NBC News that will air tomorrow in its entirety on MSNBC. Biden's warning to Republica...

Sen. Jim Delay and New START
As the Senate prepares to take up President Obama’s new Arms Control treaty with Russia on Wednesday for the first time, a Republican opponent of the pact plans to force the entire text to be read in hopes of keeping it from being approved in the lame-duck session. The reading of bills and other measures is usually dispensed on the Senate floor but because that requires unanimous consent, a single senator can block it. Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, declared that he would ...

GOP to Paralyze Senate Floor With Reading of 1,924-Page Omnibus Bill, Will Take Clerks 50 Hours to Read, DeMint Says Hes Not Bac
Stand strong, no caving in… (The Hill) — Republicans will paralyze the Senate floor for 50 hours by forcing clerks to read every single paragraph of the 1,924-page, $1.1 Trillion omnibus spending bill. Senate clerks are expected to read the massive bill in rotating shifts around the clock — taking breaks to drink water and pop throat lozenges — to keep legislative business on track, according to a Democratic leadership aide. The bill is so long that it took the Government Printing

Senate argues merits of nuclear treaty with Russia
(12-16) 00:20 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- President Barack Obama took a step toward a major Foreign Policy accomplishment as the Senate began debate on a U.S.-Russia nuclear pact. The move by Senate Democrats to bring the New START Treaty up for debate reflected confidence that they could deliver approval after it had appeared stalled for weeks. Ratification of the treaty, along with a tax deal with Republicans that's nearing approval, would represent victories for Obama on his top foreign and dom...

Reid blasts GOP Sens. DeMint and Kyl as 'sanctimonious'
Reid blasts GOP Sens. DeMint and Kyl as 'sanctimonious' Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) slammed Senate Republican leaders as “sanctimonious” for claiming that Democrats are being disrespectful of Christmas. Senators’ tempers are running high as Christmas approaches and they face a backlog of Legislation, threats of Filibusters and other delaying tactics, and the likelihood of working late at night and over the weekend. Reid’s comments came in response to criticism fro

Reid blasts GOP Sens. DeMint and Kyl as 'sanctimonious'
Reid blasts GOP Sens. DeMint and Kyl as 'sanctimonious' Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) slammed Senate Republican leaders as “sanctimonious” for claiming that Democrats are being disrespectful of Christmas. Senators’ tempers are running high as Christmas approaches and they face a backlog of Legislation, threats of Filibusters and other delaying tactics, and the likelihood of working late at night and over the weekend. Reid’s comments came in response to criticism fro

Scarborough Says 'Judge Not' . . . Then Calls Kyl And DeMint 'Un-Christlike'
Terry Jeffrey's Interview with Va. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli on ObamaCare Lawsuit Mere moments after citing Matthew 7's instruction to "judge not, that ye be not judged," Joe Scarborough judged Jon Kyl and Jim DeMint to be "un-Christlike." Scarborough's strange self-contradiction came in the course of his diatribe against the two Republican senators for having criticized Harry Reid for threatening to keep the Senate in session through Christmas. View video...

Senate ready to talk about renewing arms treaty with Russia
After months of wrangling over the future of the U.S. atomic-weapons complex, the Senate voted Wednesday to take up a new nuclear arms-reduction treaty with Russia, opening debate on a pact that President Obama regards as critical to his foreign-policy agenda. The Senate decided 66 to 32 to proceed, far more than the simple majority required. But the roll call was seen as somewhat of a proxy for the final vote, when the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) will need a Supermajority of ...

GOP votes in place for repeal of Don't Ask
Gay Rights Lobbyists say they now have 61 Senate votes in hand to Repeal the Don't Ask, Don't Tell ban on gays and Lesbians in the Military. Three Republicans are needed and at least that many have now made firm commitments to vote yes if a stand-alone Repeal comes to the floor. Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Scott Brown of Massachusetts have both said they are on board, joining Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine. That's four Republicans, one more than needed, and two more are conside...

Senator Harry Reid Doesnt Need To Hear Sanctimonious Lectures On The Meaning Of Christmas
It seems like not many in Washington are embracing the holiday spirits. First Republican Senator Jim DeMint expressed his anger to Politico about potentially having to work through Christmas, saying “you can’t jam a major Arms Control treaty right before Christmas, [this] is just wrong. This is the most sacred holiday for Christians.” And Senator Jon Kyl told the New York Times political blog that it’s impossible to get everything Democrats want done by the end of the yea...

Kyl: Extended session an attack on Christians
WASHINGTON — The Senate is in a spat over working through Christmas. Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, the No. 2 Republican, complained Wednesday that Democrats are stacking up a nuclear-arms treaty with Russia, the Budget, Tax Cuts and other weighty matters against the holiday. Keeping lawmakers in session that long is disrespectful to Christians, he said. Majority Leader Harry Reid, of Nevada, retorted that he doesn't need "sanctimonious lectures" about the meaning of Christmas. Reid said senators...