The demand of Jim DeMint’s Heritage Foundation — or, more accurately, its political arm Heritage Action — that Congress focus exclusively on the IRS scandal to the exclusion of all else hides two personal vendettas.Full story
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor whose extramarital affair sank his political career in 2009, is returning to Congress to reclaim his old House seat as he forges a comeback. Full story
Chris Hayes tackles this question with Deepak Bhargava, the executive director of the Center for Community Change, a non-profit policy organization, and Shikha Dalmia, senior analyst at Reason magazine.
Frank Rich, writer-at-large for New York Magazine, talks with Rachel Maddow about the ill-conceived Republican outreach to non-white voters and the racist arguments that underlie the reports that inform Republican thinking on immigration.
Politico Playbook: "Tea party heavyweights Marco Rubio and Jim DeMint are on opposite sides of the immigration debate – and they're duking it out for the support of the movement," write Politico's Anna Palmer and Tarini Parti. John Harris joins Morning Joe to discuss.
On Tuesday's Very Last Word, MSNBC's Rev. Al Sharpton discussed Chris Christie's weightloss surgery with Steve Schmidt, and whether he should have told his constituents about it. Also, Joy Reid talked Jim DeMint throwing a wrench in GOP rebranding efforts around immigration.
Rush Limbaugh and Jim DeMint claim immigration reform will create more takers. MSNBC's Alex Wagner discusses the return of 47% politics with MSNBC's Joy Reid.
Insight on the latest immigration bill in Washington, with Sen. Jim DeMint, (R-SC), and Howard Dean, former DNC chairman.
Jim DeMint, Ben Jealous, Bob Woodward, Andrea Mitchell, and Ted Koppel
Jim DeMint, Ben Jealous, Bob Woodward, and Andrea Mitchell
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) speaks to reporters as he arrives for a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington December 17, 2012. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley on Monday picked first-term Republican Representative Tim Scott to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by fellow Republican Jim DeMint, who
File photos of U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, December 2, 2010 and comedian Stephen Colbert attending the Time 100 Gala in New York, April 24, 2012. Colbert made it clear he will most definitely serve if called to fill the seat of DeMint, who resigned this week to
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