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WASHINGTON The Heritage Foundation sits like a watchtower on Capitol Hill, a large building just steps from the U.S. Capitol on the northeast side of Massachusetts Avenue, where analysts work to shape conservative thought and influence legislation.
Suddenly, its academic, behind-the-scenes approach is getting a shakeup. Firebrand orator Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., will take over as president early next year after the retirement of its low-profile chief, Ed Feulner, on his 35th anniversary of running the think tank.
It means a raise for DeMint. Feulner earned $1.025 million in 2010, according to latest Internal Revenue Service nonprofit 990 forms, as well as $66,161 in additional compensation. U.S. senators are paid $174,000 a year.
For Republican lawmakers, candidates and political operatives, the Heritage Foundation has been a temple of conservative thought for its authoritative briefing papers and analysis, which they count on to be reliably researched.
Its a major source of opposition to the Obama agenda, said John J. Pitney, a former Republican Party research official and now a professor of politics at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif. Im sure DeMint will have a much higher profile at Heritage than the current president.
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Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Stupid in Stupid out. It's all about his attempted 2016 Racist run for President.
libodem
(19,288 posts).
spanone
(135,900 posts)oxymoron of the century
I posted first and then looked up thread. Saw all the other rotflmao crew ahead of me. You know great minds....
libodem
(19,288 posts)Ignorance is bliss.
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)Will wonders never cease.
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)What this means is that the Tea Party will be artificially kept alive and will be the principle driver behind the coordinating institution of the Republican Party. You may have noticed that the Tea Party, which will be ardently supported by the top of the Republican Party, represents fewer and fewer people every day?
DeMint going to Heritage signals a commitment by the GOP to a road that can only lead to their ruin. They have backed the wrong horse and I predict it will lead to the utter destruction of their Party Basically it will leave them with no sane voice at the same time that the audience for the insane voice diminishes.
spanone
(135,900 posts)the heritage foundation is showing their true colors by embracing the crazy.
i hope it does lead to their ruin....i hope.