Jul 20 2008
DeMint Continues Fiscal Fight
WASHINGTON — A defiant S.C. Sen. Jim DeMint said last week that his failure to reduce the cost of President Bush’s $48 billion global AIDS program won’t deter him from continuing to compel lawmakers to take tough votes on government spending.
DeMint responded after the Senate overwhelmingly approved a significant expansion of the AIDS initiative Bush launched in 2003 to stem the disease’s spread in Africa.
“Folks in South Carolina want accountability in Washington, and I’m not going to be shy to pull back the curtain on Congress’ misplaced priorities and deficit spending,” DeMint said. “Before we forced a debate, few Americans knew our tax dollars are being funneled to a Chinese organization that promotes forced abortions and sterilizations. That’s an outrage that everyone should know about, but the bill’s supporters wanted to keep it quiet.”
Washington is full of political cowards. Few politicians have the courage and the integrity to fight the status quo and make the tough decisions needed to generate real change in this country, like Senator DeMint. He gives those of us in South Carolina proud representation and if the Republicans and Democrats produced office holders like him we’d get this country moving in the right direction. As it is, the vast majority of them are looking out for themselves, not for us.
