“We saw within a few days that this president was going to be heavy-handed, he was going to implement his agenda and pay back his political allies. And then we quickly saw with the stimulus that he moved into spending literally $1 trillion on what was effectively a government spending plan, and it just went on from there to ObamaCare and then to Dodd-Frank. It has been the most anti-business and I consider anti-American administration of my lifetime. Things that are just so anathema to the principles of freedom, and everything he has come up with centralizes more power in Washington, creates more socialist-style, collectivist policies…I’ve said this several times, and it sounds like partisan criticism, but it’s not. Anyone who reads my book, they know I don’t hesitate to criticize Republicans when we don’t do what we say, but this president is doing something that’s so far out of the realm of anything Republicans ever did wrong, it’s hard to even imagine.”
—Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) on the “Janet Mefferd Show.”