And thought this was a done deal. Good thing I caught my mistake before I started apologizing for every bad thing I’ve ever said about Mitch McConnell.

Seriously, Mitch, if you want to get back on the TEA Party’s good side and telegraph that you are serious about wanting to solve the nation’s fiscal problems, this would be a HUGE first step.

so McConnell will pay serious attention to the calls.

…also faxed this respectful note:

Senator McConnell:

We find it imperative to the future liberties of our nation to appoint Senator Jim DeMint to the Finance Committee.

Every single decision and step (policy, appointments, etc) must be made to pull this great nation back from the financial and tyrannical abyss it faces. Appointing Senator DeMint is just one of those.

We realize you are aware of Senator DeMint’s standing with Tea Parties across the country.

We need your leadership in doing the right thing.

being appointed to the committee with Orrin Hatch as Minority Leader? If you look at the membership, it is full of RINOs such as Olymphia Snowe and liberals such as Ben Cardin. I think Thune was the only one on there that I would say is conservative. I don’t think Mitch has big enough cojones to disrupt that committee with DeMint. C’mon Mitch, prove me WRONG!

There is NO way that McConnell won’t give DeMint the seat on the SFC. He could not possibly be that stupid…

Heller is already on Ways and Means in the house. And was voting against pork before it was fashionable. Jill Derby was hammering him in th ’08 campaign for voting against “such great bills” because they were full of pork.

Se. DeMint makes our state proud and I just called McConnell’s office to cast my vote. I’m hopeful he gets the nod because that Committee needs an adult on it big time.

I just called as well…. let’s see whether these calls make any difference. Have called a lot of state and federal congress people over the past year and sometimes appears it’s all for naught.

Called and spoke to McConnell’s staff regarding DeMint on the finance committee. It is easy to get discouraged with the politics of it all and to feel like we are swimming up stream.

In the end we need THE RESOLVE to FORCE this change, and others like it, because the American people want it

NOT WHAT WASHINGTON DC WANTS. . WHAT WE THE PEOPLE WANT!

They all WORK FOR US.

At last count, we still outnumber professional politicians and their entourage.

I called Mitch and left a message to support DeMint. Hopefully he’ll listen, we’ll see.

In the meantime, with regard to DeMint, I noted Red State sent me some Presidential poll and it’s a joke. It supposedly uses all these one-to-one matchups to avoid gaming the system. But in reality, I had to cast dozens of votes among dozens of matchups, and I didn’t want to vote for ANY of them. I wanted to vote for DeMint and was never even offered that option. So it’s full of totally bogus preferences, and nothing I’m actually interested in. I’d have thought Red State would have been more careful before sponsoring such a farce.