DeMint is a big baller
Our boy Senator Jimmy D must be a pretty big baller on the tennis court. Check out this article from The Hill:
The Hill
Senate tennis claims a casualty
September 10, 2007We couldn’t help but wonder on Sept. 7 if the multiple scandals and investigations in the Republican Party had just become too much for Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) as he hobbled his way to the Senate floor, dragging one leg and grimacing as he went.
The budget hawk dodged our questions about his health, joking that another senator was responsible for his weakened condition.
“I picked on the wrong earmark,” DeMint joked. “I guess they are tired of me.”
Indeed, it turns out that DeMint’s limp was the work of a colleague — and a fellow Republican, no less.
National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Ensign (R-Nev.), who should have more incentive than anyone in Washington to keep GOP senators healthy, injured DeMint in a tennis game last week, according to a Senate aide.
The two senators play each other frequently, but our biased source claims that DeMint almost always wins, and not just against Ensign.
Now DeMint’s tennis domination has been thrown into doubt — a point Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) eagerly made with a casual swipe at another tennis-playing Republican senator from Minnesota.
“Now he’s the only guy who Norm Coleman can beat,” Burr cracked.
http://thehill.com/under-the-dome/japanese-group-still-seeking-to-honor-sen.-craig-2007-09-11.html