Heritage Foundation's wingnut president, former Sen. Jim DeMint is out of the trail, trying to dupe a bunch of old white people that are showing up at their events that "Obamacare" is going to destroy their lives. Never mind as Sarah Jones pointed out today, that the Affordable Care Act is based on a proposal that came out of his foundation in the '80's.

Jim DeMint tells Delaware crowd that Obamacare is un-American:

Conservative former Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina was in Brandywine Hundred Thursday for the last stop on a nationwide tour to drum up support for cutting off funding for the coming implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

DeMint, a favorite of the tea party, told a standing-room-only ballroom at the DoubleTree Hotel, that the health care reform known as Obamacare is a threat to personal freedom and an effort by Democrats and progressives to exercise control over citizens.

“I cannot think of anything that’s more un-American than national government-run healthcare,” DeMint said to the crowd of conservatives from around the state. “(Liberals) see as their holy grail taking control of the health care system…If they can control that they can control most of our lives.”

The Republican left the Senate at the end of last year to become president of the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, whose lobbying arm, Heritage Action for American, organized Thursday’s event. The gathering was the last stop on a nine-city defund-Obamacare tour that began earlier this month.

“We don’t have the time to wait, on Oct. 1 sign ups for these exchanges start, on Jan. 1 the subsidies start going out,” he said. “The time is now to fight.” [...]

DeMint said Republicans in Congress should not back away from a budget showdown over Obamacare.

“If there’s ever been anything worth fighting for in the political arena, it’s this,” he said.

DeMint preached a set of health care reforms to the enthusiastic crowd that he said would accomplish the same goals as Obamacare, namely cheaper insurance coverage for more Americans, without direct government intervention in the insurance process.

“We know there are common sense ideas that can make health care and health insurance more available,” he said. “If you give businesses a tax break for buying health insurance, you should do that for individuals as well…Let people buy health insurance anywhere in the country. Those choices become available as companies have to compete for your business.”

DeMint also said the “Medicaid-style” plans open to new patients under the Affordable Care Act won’t pay doctors enough to provide quality care.

“It’s like having a bus ticket with no buses,” he said.