From Salon: The Heritage Foundation has always been full of hacks

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Heritage is now more a lobbying group on policy now than it was pre-Jim Demint. Before it did policy making but I don't think Rank and File Republicans really listened to Heritage. Now with the Tea Party Heritage has kind of attached to the Tea Party Wing in Congress in lobbying them. Remember when DeMint was in the US Senate I don't think he really listened to McConell he just did what he wanted and that was it. He was his own man. Now Ted Cruz is sort of the Demint of the US Senate and DeMint and Cruz have a good relationship. I do think DeMint did have a lot to do with Cruz holding up ACA with the government shutdown because Heritage did hatch this plan with ACA/Shutting down the government.