I have the book in my hand right now....The Great American Awakening....Two Years That Changed America, Washington, And Me.....published in 2011....and signed by the author Jim DeMint.....sent to me because of a donation to the Senate Conservatives Fund. I kept this copy.....pristine because of the signature....as I have a small collection of books signed by the authors....I had another copy for my personal reading....but gave that away long ago.
The above photo was my hardhat back in 2012. If I remember correctly....there was a Senate vote....DeMint was a Senator from South Carolina....and the vote tallied 99 yeas....and one nay. DeMint was the lone nay vote.....on a matter of principle. I was a big backer of him running for President....but it never came to be. As for the book....it documents two years when he was in the Senate....2008 to 2010....a number of the congressional fights during that time period....and the rise of the Tea Party....all this with a forward by Marco Rubio.
The 2010 midterms were a famously big victory for Republicans over Democrats....and conservatives over the establishment. On the day after the election....the Wall Street Journal published an open letter by Senator DeMint. Here is an excerpt from that letter to the new conservatives just elected to Congress....
"Many of the people who will be welcoming the new class of Senate conservatives to Washington never wanted you here in the first place. The establishment is much more likely to try to buy off your votes than to buy into your limited-government philosophy. Consider what the former GOP senator-turned-lobbyist Trent Lott told the Washington Post earlier this year: 'As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them'....Don't let them...Tea Party Republicans were elected to go to Washington and save the country-not to be co-opted by the club. So put on your boxing gloves. The fight begins today."
It was a heady time....and those were great words.....too bad that when the tables were turned....and our side became unprincipled....that we didn't stand up as we did before.
The Great American Awakening....was probably not the best title to choose. I'll tell you here about a real....Great Awakening....that led to a real....Tea Party. It came through preaching....and nothing else! The freedom was in Christ....that only led to the demands for other freedoms. There was a few months ago a movie out on that Great Awakening....in fact the title of the film is....A Great Awakening....produced by the people at those wonderful live/play/musicals at Lancaster....Pennsylvania....and Branson....Missouri! Please....spend a few bucks and stream the movie! I have watched it four times already....and have two copies of the DVD to pass around. The gospel message is in this film....through the words of George Whitefield....in its proper place of prominence....which is ahead of any other freedoms or liberties that we might desire in this life!
It was a heady time....and those were great words.....too bad that when the tables were turned....and our side became unprincipled....that we didn't stand up as we did before.
The Great American Awakening....was probably not the best title to choose. I'll tell you here about a real....Great Awakening....that led to a real....Tea Party. It came through preaching....and nothing else! The freedom was in Christ....that only led to the demands for other freedoms. There was a few months ago a movie out on that Great Awakening....in fact the title of the film is....A Great Awakening....produced by the people at those wonderful live/play/musicals at Lancaster....Pennsylvania....and Branson....Missouri! Please....spend a few bucks and stream the movie! I have watched it four times already....and have two copies of the DVD to pass around. The gospel message is in this film....through the words of George Whitefield....in its proper place of prominence....which is ahead of any other freedoms or liberties that we might desire in this life!
