Posted on 11/24/2007 6:20:54 PM PST by Kurt Evans
Since Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) is apparently going to explore the possibility of running for president in 2008, I thought I'd dig up some of his roll call votes. Like most Republicans, he's strong on tax cuts, but he's been part of the big government spending spree of the last 6 years. He also has a protectionist streak in him. Here are some of the more troubling votes:
NO on NAFTA
YES on No Child Left Behind
YES on Sarbanes-Oxley
YES on the 2003 Medicare Drug Benefit
NO on CAFTA
YES on 2005 Highway Bill
YES on the 527 bill (like most Republicans, he flip-flopped, having first voted NO on McCain-Feingold)
Hunter also went 0 for 19 on the Flake anti-pork amendments.
Despite being a member of the Republican Study Committee, Hunter frequently votes NO on their fiscally conservative annual budgets (2006, 2005, 2003...)
We gave him a 49% on the 2005 Club for Growth scorecard. That places him 187th within the House GOP conference, out of roughly 230 members.
National Taxpayers Union shows a more telling trend. He was strong in the early 1990s, getting "B's" and one "A", but as time went by, like most politicians, his score dropped. For the past few years, he's been getting "C's".
We’ve heard about his 3 marriages and his diva/Pelosi like behavior of airplanes, hotel accommodations and taking $100,000 speaking fee for the victims of a Tsunami. But hey, that’s all just ‘personal’ stuff. Character doesn’t matter in the Ferengi economic model the globalist pushers would foist on us.
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SoCalPol is s mental case who hates America. --Post 188
Oh, you covered it already. Okie-doke.
Is there any question that Duane Duncan will win the primary? Just curious.
There are several dozen FReepers who kow me personally include Jim Robinson.
L Ron Paul is a mental case who hates America.
Dozens of FReepers will continue to laugh at your
name calling to me. You have proven my point about
L Ron Paul supporters.
Juvenile.
How clever of you to self-identify. The next step is to grow up.
“L Ron Paul is a mental case who hates America.”
I don’t think he hates America. I think he has a disjointed view (typical extreme libertarian, which is what he is no matter how many R’s he sticks behind his name)of history and the job he was hired by the American people to do. Be a legislator.
He’s failed at that miserably. He’s talked some good talk, but that wasn’t his job. His job was to get something accomplished per the promises he made his constituents.
Do you think they’d have elected him if he said, “Well, I’m gonna be on Cspan and talk alot but I’m never going to effect one piece of legislation or get one bill passed that I wrote. Instead I’m going to praise Islam, Iran and trade with China and vote against troops on the border to control illegal immigration.”
He claims to be for ‘small government’, but co sponsored 1876 bills written by other congressmen. In the same time period Duncan Hunter co sponsored 1000 fewer than Paul. So that talking point is worthless for Paul.
Who thinks this guy would have been elected in Texas on his true record?
They have a big mouth while hiding in the sticks. They couldn’t live in the real world.
For starters, don't waste your breath on Paul supporters. You know he's a nutcase, I know he's a nutcase, and so does everyoen else with an ounce of common sense. Pearls before swine would be appropriate here. Don't give them the bandwidth.
That said, since you're pinging Jim and invoking your friendship repeatedly, what does he think of your put downs of FReepers who live in "backwater states" and small towns that you refer to as hicksville?
Some of these people arn’t worthy to be FReepers.
Some of these same backwater folks bash California on other threads and that is supposed to be ok. I don’t
think so.
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“Wear it as a badge of honor, Congressman!” Soooooo true!
Great, INFORMATIVE counter to Opening Post in Post 203!
Please read it for the truth, folks.
I don't understand your 'backwater' or 'hiding in the sticks' remarks. I'm proud to be a backwoods hick, and I live in California! LOL
Be careful of that broad brush, it wasn't too long ago here on FR that everyone who wanted something done about illegal immigration was referred to as a 'knuckle dragger', 'hick', 'redneck'. You don't see that much these days because those were mostly Rudy type posters or now support their favorite RINO who is suddenly talking tough on immigration.
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