He has a better voting record per the ACU than a LOT of GOP do !
Representative Ralph Hall (D)
4th Congressional District, Texas
Democrat, Years of Service: 22
ACU Ratings for Representative Hall: Year 2002 88 Year 2001 96 Lifetime 83
Posted on 01/03/2004 2:58:02 AM PST by slimer
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:38:15 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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Can we really trust a man for whom switching is mainly a matter of political expediency?
Hey, look at the guy's record before you impugn him.
He's more conservative, and more "republican" than most Republicans in Congress.
Doesn't say much for our GOP congress, does it :)
Hall is a true conservative. He has a better voting record than half the Republicans. What has me so upset is that time and time again Hall has bailed out the Republican leadership on close votes. I know. Countless times I've been asked to talk to Congressman Hall about this vote or that. Moreover, I know of countless other times when the GOP leadership has had to go to Hall to try to line up the last few votes for razor-thin victories.
Do you have any idea how many close victories the House leadership has delivered this Congress? Hall has been on the right side of every single question. He also was one of a handful of Democrats to vote for the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
So the party which depends on Hall to win on its legislative agenda is the party which will raise big money to defeat Hall in order to stay in power. That Hall is a real American who never lets the president down, who was active with Democrats for Bush in 2000, who twists arms to help the leadership get a vote here and there means nothing to the Republicans.
There are many Republican Members who vote against the leadership again and again. They even embarrass the GOP leadership with things like discharge petitions on campaign finance reform.
Many of these liberal Republicans appear opposite the speaker and majority leader and majority whip on television talk shows, so it appears that the Republican Party is deeply divided. Actually, it is only a small minority taking the liberal position.
Let's face it, the reason Hall's vote is needed in the first place is precisely because of these liberal GOP defections. So now these liberals are to be completely forgiven because after all they vote right for speaker.
But Hall, who votes with the GOP leadership 95 percent of the time when his vote is really needed, he can be tossed in the political ash heap because he casts the wrong vote for speaker.
Just remember, Hall was the one Democrat who refused to vote for Tip O'Neill when Tip was elected speaker for the last time.
So we have to buy our congressmen now?
Pretty much what was said on Special Report with Brit Hume today. So it really doesn't make much of a differance for the time being.
He has a better voting record per the ACU than a LOT of GOP do !
Representative Ralph Hall (D)
4th Congressional District, Texas
Democrat, Years of Service: 22
ACU Ratings for Representative Hall: Year 2002 88 Year 2001 96 Lifetime 83
Yep! An early gain. We'll take it ! A plus is a plus.
LOL. now. Good one.
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