{"id":15678,"date":"2012-12-06T10:24:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T16:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=15678"},"modified":"2017-05-02T23:55:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T04:55:52","slug":"demint-leaves-senate-to-head-heritage-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=15678","title":{"rendered":"DeMint Leaves Senate to Head Heritage Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Jim DeMint has announced that he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323501404578161613763222762.html\">stepping down from the Senate to head the Heritage Foundation<\/a>. DeMint&#8217;s official statement is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demint.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&#038;ContentRecord_id=8fcf7012-ddad-4700-9238-ae6c74e63bcc\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s big news when a Senator steps down to head a think tank, especially the granddaddy of all conservative think tanks, where founder Ed Feulner is stepping down at age 71. <\/p>\n<p>It will be tough to lose DeMint from the Senate, where he&#8217;s done so much to further the cause of limited government and recruited stalwart conservatives like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul to join him. But hopefully he can awaken a sleeping giant at Heritage, an enormously important institution before and during the Reagan Revolution, but almost invisible in the Internet era. <\/p>\n<p>Erick Erickson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/2012\/12\/06\/two-roads-diverged-jim-demint-leaves-u-s-senate-for-heritage-foundation-presidency\/\">likes the move<\/a>. &#8220;Jim DeMint\u2019s power in the conservative movement just grew exponentially. A man who was going to retire in four years anyway, will now be leading the conservative movement from its base of operations for years to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Edited to Add<\/b>: Ted Cruz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedcruz.org\/press-releases\/2012\/12\/06\/sen-elect-ted-cruz-congratulates-sen-jim-demint-on-being-named-heritage-foundation-president\/\">joins the chorus of congratulations<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Jim DeMint has announced that he&#8217;s stepping down from the Senate to head the Heritage Foundation. DeMint&#8217;s official statement is here. It&#8217;s big news when a Senator steps down to head a think tank, especially the granddaddy of all conservative think tanks, where founder Ed Feulner is stepping down at age 71. It will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":30,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[3983,1809,1807,944],"class_list":["post-15678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans","tag-ed-feulner","tag-erick-erickson","tag-heritage-foundation","tag-jim-demint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15678"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31693,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15678\/revisions\/31693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}