Jim DeMint is proud of being the leader of the Tea Party wing of the U.S. Senate. He endorsed Christine O’Donnell for U.S. Senate over Mike Castle. Jim DeMint and fellow crazy conservative Tom Coburn have placed a hold on selling land near the Smithsonian for a women’s history museum. His reasoning?
And, as the New York Times’s Gail Collins revealed Sunday, the redundancy argument completely dries out under scrutiny. When asked what entities the new museum would duplicate, Coburn suggested that quilters and cowgirls were sufficient to tell the entire story of American women:
The office sent me a list of the entities in question. They include the Quilters Hall of Fame in Indiana, the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Texas and the Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens in Washington.
There also were a number of homes of famous women and some fine small collections of exhibits about a particular locality or subject. But, really, Senator Coburn’s list pretty much proved the point that this country really needs one great museum that can chart the whole, big amazing story.
C’mon ladies – there’s already a cowgirl museum. What else do we need? Christine was so upset upon reading this that she couldn’t attend any classes at Princeton. Jim DeMint, however, is not finished showing us what this “new” form of conservatism is all about.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) attempted to convince pastors that economic issues are moral issues at the Greater Freedom Rally at a church in Spartanburg, South Carolina yesterday, imploring them to help conservatives retake Congress in November.
In addition to reiterating anti-choice talking points on abortion and backing “traditional marriage,” according to the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, the senator went further and “said if someone is openly homosexual, they shouldn’t be teaching in the classroom and he holds the same position on an unmarried woman who’s sleeping with her boyfriend — she shouldn’t be in the classroom.”
I think these science article I’ve been reading are right – Neanderthals are not extinct. Actually, a Neaderthal might be more desirable than Jim DeMint.