When the only form of government you trust is yourself, it's either dictatorship- or anarchy

Senator Jim DeMint hates government. He hates the executive branch. He hates what he calls the activist courts. He hates it when Congress doesn't do his bidding.

Now he's attacking the US Senate's parliamentarian- before he's ruled on what DeMint  says he'll rule on:

Senate Republicans are waging a pre-emptive strike against the Senate’s parliamentarian — a hitherto little-known official who could determine the fate of the Democrats’ health care reform efforts.

In interviews with POLITICO, several Republican senators and aides cast Parliamentarian Alan Frumin — a 33-year veteran of the Senate — as someone who is predisposed to side with the Democrats if they attempt to use the reconciliation process to pass parts of their bill.

“I think clearly the majority leader has his ear, and I’ve got concerns,” said Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). “I think if he does not look at that very careful — reconciliation is supposed to be very narrowly defined, large legislative things don’t seem to fit in those parameters — I would think that reconciliation would make or break the perception of his objectivity.”

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