https://redstate.com/erick/2010/09/29/senate-republicans-yet-again-give-middle-finger-to-the-tea-party-movement/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usFri, 12 Jun 2026 03:11:17 -0400<![CDATA[It is a story that superficially is about Jim DeMint.He beat up his Senate Republican colleagues in an email the other day for what they did. Lisa Murkowski left the party to run as a write-in candidate against Joe Miller in Alaska after he beat her in the GOP primary.Murkowski&#8217;s chief selling point is that she is the ranking Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee. The Senate GOP could have stripped her of that position, but chose to keep her there.This has given Murkowski a new attack against Miller, i.e. even the Senate GOP expects her to come back.DeMint took exception to that. National Review has done yeoman&#8217;s work getting Senators on record about how they voted. What they are finding is that pretty much every Republican Senator supports Murkowski.Republican Senators are now attacking Jim DeMint for siding with the tea party movement.]]>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:03:30 -0400<![CDATA[Erick Erickson]]>https://redstate.com/erick/2010/09/29/senate-republicans-yet-again-give-middle-finger-to-the-tea-party-movement-n36417