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It is a far from unified Republican Party that won the U.S. House and gained seats in the Senate.
John Boehner, poised to become House speaker, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will be contending with a new breed of Republicans, many inexperienced in politics and swept into office on a tide of anger against business as usual in Washington, including business as formerly conducted by their party.
Tensions broke into the open almost immediately, when Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, who helped fund insurgent Republicans against candidates of his party’s establishment, warned them against the temptation to go along with the ways of Capitol Hill.
“Many of the people who will be welcoming the new class of Senate conservatives to Washington never wanted you here in the first place,” DeMint wrote in an op-ed article published last evening on the Web site of The Wall Street Journal. “The establishment is much more likely to buy off your votes than to buy into your limited-government philosophy.”
Newcomers should resist falling into line and trading votes for budget earmarks, plum committee assignments and leadership posts, DeMint wrote. “Tea Party Republicans were elected to go to Washington and save the country -- not be co- opted by the club. So put on your boxing gloves. The fight begins today.”
Ah, yes. Republicans of the "no room for moderates" species (aka knuckle-dragging Neanderthals).
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