Senator takes his ball and goes home.

So South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint has decided that the Senate isn't the best place for his talents, and has resigned to head Heritage House, a conservative think tank. He believes that his new position will allow him to guide a new, young group of like-minded hard right-wing politicians. In this, he may actually be right. As a Senator, Jim DeMint doesn't have a signature bill that he was able to pass, and his best skill was fund-raising for right-wing politicians running for Senate, like Rand Paul and Todd Akin. So in fact, Senator DeMint has basically admitted that he hasn't been able to change the way the Senate works, or acts, or to get the kind of bills that he believes the country needs passed. And he believes that he can have a bigger voice at the Heritage House, which of course he will. But doesn't this remind remind everyone of a time when they young and some kid decides that he/she doesn't like the way thing are going and leaves, taking their ball so no one can play the game any more. And normally, it was the fact that the kid just didn't get the result they wanted. A GOP politician acting like a petulant child? Now there's something that only right-wing radio personalities can do better.