A Retrenchment At Heritage?

The Heritage Foundation president and former Sen. Jim DeMint, speaks to a town hall meeting held at the Crowne Plaza Tampa-Westshore on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013 in Tampa, Fla. DeMint spoke about Obamacare during the ... The Heritage Foundation president and former Sen. Jim DeMint, speaks to a town hall meeting held at the Crowne Plaza Tampa-Westshore on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013 in Tampa, Fla. DeMint spoke about Obamacare during the event. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Eve Edelheit) TAMPA OUT; CITRUS COUNTY OUT; PORT CHARLOTTE OUT; BROOKSVILLE HERNANDO TODAY OUT MORE LESS
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If Jim DeMint concluded that he overreached in his first year as president of the Heritage Foundation and decided he needed to reel things back in to restore relations with Republicans in Congress, with the business wing of the GOP, and with funders, what would it look like?

It would probably look a lot like this week’s hire of Stephen Moore as the new “chief economist” for the foundation. That’s how some conservatives who have been at odds recently with Heritage are seeing it. Dylan Scott reports on the initial reactions and talks with Moore himself.

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