Scurry, Scurry From a Sinking Ship

The SS Tea Party can now be rechristened Titanic Two with one of the largest Republican rodents of all jumping overboard after the vessel’s collision last month with the Obama iceberg.

South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint leaves the sinking ship for a warm berth with the Heritage Foundation while bragging about his accomplishment of "stocking the Senate with solid conservatives," with no mention of Democrats like Elizabeth Warren who arrived on Obama’s coattails.

DeMint bequeaths the victims (er, “leaders”) to Mitch McConnell who is still standing on the bridge while an Ashley Judd wave rises to engulf him in 2014.

Man the lifeboats, at least those the former leaders have left behind.