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Vote breakdown. For the first session of the 107th Congress we rated 25 votes in the House and 24 votes in the Senate. Only the Senate vote on John Ashcroft’s confirmation as Attorney General was double-weighted. As a result, each vote – assuming a member cast a vote on all votes – is worth four points except for the Senate vote on John Ashcroft which is worth eight points (We do not count missed votes as either “for” or “against,” thus, the value of each individual vote rises for each vote missed by a member.)...The ACU ratings are based on facts in evidence...votes cast by each individual member of the body there is no room for personal feeling or grievances to enter in to the system. THey are clean and accurate.

Selective "ideological" votes? "Double-weighted" votes? That makes for a very, very subjective rating process and provides for hardly any scientific accuracy in adjuding a member of Congress's dedication to conservative principles. Look, the truth is we represent too very different ideological perspectives. I represent the paleoconservative ideology ratwhile you represent the neoconservative idelogical perspective. For example, I rate a vote for permanent NTR for Communist China as a liberal vote, whereas you would probably rate that vote to appease the butchers of Beijing with permanent US taxpayer subsidized trade as a conservative vote. Accordingly, we are not going to be able to agree on a definition for conservatism let alone agree on whose conservative rating system is the most authoritative. That being the case, I apologize for calling you an "ACU lackey chick." I believe that you are doing a good service from your perspective. However, your latest statements explaining the ACU's "methodology" for computing the Conservative Rating scores of individual members of Congress have merely gone to confirm my aforestated views on the sunbjectiveness and unreliability on the ACU Conservative Rating system for purposes of determining who are the most reliable allies and most determined enemies of conservative legislation.