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Sanford and DeMint emerging as knights of the right |
One is a junior U.S. senator from a small, conservative state.The other is a governor and former congressman known for sleeping on his couch in Washington and bringing pigs to the state Capitol to protest what he saw as pork-barrel spending.Jim DeMint and Mark Sanford are major political players in South Carolina, but they have been blips on the national political screen.Until now.Both men were among the most vocal and prominent opponents of the federal stimulus package that President Barack Obama could sign into law as soon as Monday. And both men are positioned to continue to oppose what they see as the big-government tendencies of the new president.
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