DeMint places hold on Bernanke’s renomination until Fed audit bill clears Senate
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) has joined Sen. Bernie Sanders in placing a hold on Ben Bernanke’s confirmation to a second term as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. DeMint says that his hold will remain in place until S. 604, the Senate version of the “Audit the Fed” legislation, has passed.
From DeMint’s press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, announced this morning that he will oppose the nomination of Ben Bernanke to serve a second term as the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Senator DeMint made the announcement after Bernanke’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, and pledged to object to floor consideration of the nomination until the Senate votes on S. 604, the Federal Reserve Sunshine Act of 2009.
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“Mr. Bernanke has been one of the chief proponents of the Fed’s easy money policy that created the current financial crisis. He ignored asset bubbles, dismissed concerns about the weakness of the dollar, and helped encourage the credit mania that led to the financial panic. Even worse, Mr. Bernanke has refused to accept any responsibility for his role in these actions prior to financial crisis.
On July 6, 2009, Senator DeMint attempted to get a vote on S. 604, which would remove restrictions on auditing the Fed’s discount window operations, funding facilities, open market operations and agreements with foreign central banks and governments. The vote was blocked but Senator pledged to keep fighting to force the Senate to vote on the measure.
“I will also object to floor consideration of Mr. Bernanke’s nomination until the Senate votes up-or-down on the Federal Reserve Sunshine Act. This bipartisan legislation, sponsored by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, has over thirty cosponsors and would allow the Government Accountability Office to conduct a full audit of the Federal Reserve. Americans deserve to know how their money is being managed so these mistakes never happen again.
Well said, Sen. DeMint.
You can watch DeMint question Bernanke on the role of the Fed during hearings on his renomination here.

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“Americans deserve to know how their money is being managed so these mistakes never happen again.”
Senator Jim DeMint (R- South Carolina)
Americans already know how their money is being “managed.” When the people do not manage their own money, they become the “managed” ones.
“If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.”
- George Washington
We the People are dining at a Fed banquet, where the main course is the frontal lobe of our collective brain.
Senator DeMint deserves credit for a feeble effort to audit the Fed, when he should be calling on his fellow senators to abolish it entirely.
By calling for an alleged “audit,” he merely legitimizes the private banking cartel, calling itself “federal.”
The senator presents the argument by slotting it as an incompetent apparatus of legitimate government, rather than exposing it for what it truly is; a criminal syndicate which is a direct threat to the national security of the United States of America.
Yes, let’s truly get to the bottom of this gigantic swindle perpetrated against the American people for over two centuries by the Money Masters of the Universe!
What part of Ponzi scheme and counterfeiting operation does the dear senator not understand?
The “mistakes” were systematically planned by the shareholders of the fictitious business calling itself “Federal Reserve,” in order to destroy the United States of America, thereby paving the way for the ascendancy of Big Brother’s New World Order of rule by oligarchy.
Let’s “thank” Senator DeMint for defining what the people really want…as if he knew or cared. It is NOT a new Fed chief.
His good cop/bad cop theatrics will not serve to liberate this nation from the stranglehold of the international bankers.
Debt-free money was the cause of the Revolutionary War. It is also the sacred mission of the Second American Revolution, We the People are now actively engaged in prosecuting.
The Rothschild molesting central bank promised to destroy America during the time when President Abraham Lincoln elected to print debt-free “greenbacks” to finance the Civil War. The financial coup of that evil entity over Our Dear Country now appears to have come to full fruition:
“If that mischievous financial policy which had its origin in the North American Republic [i.e., honest Constitutionally authorized debt-free money] should become indurated down to a fixture, then that government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without a debt (to the International Bankers). It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized governments of the world. The brains and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe!”
- The Times of London newspaper, opinion-editorial commentary, 1861
What is a Rockefeller overlordship over the people’s purse other than a restoration of the monarchy?
With the recent extortion/danegeld paid to the robber barons in the form of an alleged “bailout,” by the American people, history is once again witness to the tilled fields of freedom —for which the people have toiled and fertilized with their blood— being trampled by the financial steed of the robber baron.
That country which does not hold its own purse strings— but allows its “public servants” to abdicate the power to coin money and declare war—is a nation in chains.
The American people are NOT interested in lawmakers who strike a pose, as if they were truly doing something. The people are demanding: End the Fed, before it ends the United States of America.
“I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs…I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices in doing something terrible and unforgiveable to our wonderful country. Deep down in our heart, we know that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected.”
- Senator John Danforth
“The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it all back again. However, take this great power away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and control credit.”
- Sir Josiah Stamp, President of the Bank of England in the 1920s, the second richest man in Britain
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