FINANCIAL TIMES: The senior Tea Party-backed politician in Congress has resigned from the US Senate to run a leading Washington-based think-tank amid continuing upheaval in conservative ranks following Barack Obama’s re-election as president.
Jim DeMint, from South Carolina, said he was leaving to run the Heritage Foundation, a powerful conservative think-tank that has close relations with like-minded members of Congress…
“At present, any reading of the headlines over the past week indicates that Republicans are fighting to protect the rich and cut benefits for seniors,” said Bobby Jindal, Louisiana’s Republican governor, in an article for Politico. “It may be possible to have worse political positioning than that, but I’m not sure how.”… (more)
