Posted on 07/23/2007 6:04:09 AM PDT by pissant
I’ve posted these to you before; here they are again.
He may have voted for the balanced budget amendment, but then he voted to kill a bill that would have provided for meaningful enforcement:
Budget Enforcement Act of 1997
H.R.2003
Title: To reform the budget process and enforce the bipartisan balanced budget agreement of 1997.
Bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d105:h.r.02003:
Vote: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1997/roll300.xml
Then when the bill wasn’t killed, Hunter voted against it:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1997/roll301.xml
Then in 2000, he bucked the GOP and voted against another bill that aimed to meaningfully enforce the balanced budget amendment:
Comprehensive Budget Process Reform Act
H.R.853
Title: To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide for joint resolutions on the budget, reserve funds for emergency spending, strengthened enforcement of budgetary decisions, increased accountability for Federal spending, accrual budgeting for Federal insurance programs, mitigation of the bias in the budget process toward higher spending, modifications in paygo requirements when there is an on-budget surplus, and for other purposes.
Bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.r.00853:
Vote: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2000/roll189.xml
He also bucked the GOP in 2004 and joined with a party-line democrat vote against the Spending Control Act:
Spending Control Act
H R 4663
Title: To amend part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to establish discretionary spending limits and a pay-as-you-go requirement for mandatory spending. (Note: this was the republican version of “pay-as-you-go” - it only applied to cutting spending to pay for other spending, and did not provide for raising taxes to pay for spending)
Bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:HR04663:@@@L&summ2=m&;>;
Vote: http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.asp?year=2004&rollnumber=318
Tapdancing Example:
LA TIMES - Fred lobbied pro abort group
Fred Spokesman - Me talk to Fred. “Never happened. Period”, no billing records yada yada
Story flies all over blogosphere: Fred lobby for pro abort group
Fred on Powerline: Backpedals from denial. Don’t mix up lawyerin with personal opinion. Does not correct his spokesman’s earlier blanket denial.
NY TImes: Finds billing records
Fred: No speak, spokesman: tapdance.
If he had been this pro lifer he would have remembered talking 22 times with teh gal running an abortionist outfit.
Fred recognized early that Hillary was not worthy of being noticed [from his book At This Point In Time]. Hillary’s name is not mentioned although most of the staffers are mentioned. That makes him intelligent and astute.
Fred treats his wives with great respect [from At This Point In Time] and from interviews that mention Jeri.
Fred is prolife and has been as long as I have been. Fred votes by his principles [Federalism, prolife, limited government].
Fred has done extensive work on limiting the size of government.[committee reports on OCLC] His article on civil service [relating to limited government].
Fred’s work on fighting corruption [Watergate as found in At This Point In Time, Marie Ragghianti and governor Blanton as found in Marie by Peter Maas, case of Cpl. Lance Fielder as found on OCLC].
Fred’s resume listing the bills he has worked on. [Thomas.gov, Sturm Rugers website]
Fred’s work on foreign relations and nuclear proliferation.
Fred’s writings show intelligence, organization, thoughtfulness and his character. He watches what he says about others and thinks about what he says. Most evident in At This Point In Time.
People who know him well recommend Fred highly.
Fred knows a lot about Hillary that he hasn’t talked about yet.
Fred’s ethics and character as spoken about by people who know him well [Lance Fielder’s family, Marie Ragghianti, Sarah Lindsey, friends from his hometown, etc]. You can tell by this book.
I trust Fred’s judgment [from reading his commentaries, his book, from Marie by Peter Maas].
Fred has a longer history to track and to go by than some of the other candidates. Gives you more to rate.
Fred’s work at getting John Roberts through the Senate.
I could go on, but I have other things to do.
Do you never tire of looking ridiculous? This has been dealt with completely. Try to read back and remember...remember...remember. If you can’t, go back over this weekend’s threads. What a desperate man you are.
Of course he changed his heart on the abortion issue. Before it might not have been a big deal, just business as usaul.
I get nothing for either of your first two thomas links. Just like last time. LOL. Not sure what you are doing wrong. But if you can’t link I will look up later.
I have run into the same link problem. Some of them seem to be temporary.
If Fred says he has always been pro life, he’s gonna tank. You better hope fredheads have been misattributing that. It will all come out in the wash.
Thomas searches expire automatically (and quickly) -- it's generally not wise to post them as web links, as they usually won't be available when someone tries to click them.
You have better luck talking to a fence post.
He is not going to tank, he changed his heart. He was Libertarian on it before, but now is more Conservative. I don’t see the problem.
That’s what lawyers do.
Thanks for that tip. I had not noticed that before.
I don’t either, but you might want to tell Clara lou and Hoosierpearl that bit of info before they drive themselves batty. LOL
Oh, gee. You’ve been talking about that for the longest. And NOW, weeks later, you’re hot on the trail. Golly, I’m so worried. Watch out folks, pissant is getting ready to take Thompson out. Then EVERYONE will turn to Duncan Hunter as their political lord and savior. Right???
I just said I don’t know for sure that Fred made that statement. His minions like you have been though.
There’s probably more on Duncan Hunter than Pissant knows. People don’t spend a lot of time trying to discredit a candidate with a 1.5% poll.
Only problem is, I’ve already done the research. LOL.
And, his votes in favor of the most massive entitlement expansion of our generation, the Medicare Prescription Drug entitlement:
Medicare RX of 2000 Act
Bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.r.04680:
Vote: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2000/roll357.xml
Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act
Bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.00001:
Vote: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2003/roll332.xml
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