Rand Paul out-DeMints DeMint

Politico reports:

Move over Jim DeMint — you’ve got new competition.

For the past four years, the South Carolina conservative has repeatedly put his Senate GOP colleagues in awkward positions, forcing them to take stands that pit them between their conservative base and Republican moderates. But in the opening weeks of the new Congress, freshman Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has commanded a high-profile role as a conservative aggressor, proposing measures that go further than DeMint’s and would implement his libertarian political philosophy.

DeMint has proposed cutting $250 billion per year for the next decade. Paul has proposed $500 billion worth of cuts for just one year. Paul has vowed to oppose on constitutional grounds an extension of the PATRIOT Act, an anti-terrorism law DeMint has repeatedly backed in the past.

The revolt against the state.