Posted on 10/29/2006 5:12:18 PM PST by radar101
Illegal aliens generally don't try to talk to me in the manner that Paul Ross does. There's something about being held at gunpoint for trespassing that encourages good manners.
Bottom line: Hunter's got chums in the district, and he's logrolled earmarks for them. Either he's really confident that no one's going to say "BOO!" about those earmarks, or this is a vanity run.
Please find any member of Congress who has never voted for an appropriation bill which has included any appropriation at all for projects in his district. All you are saying is that Hunter has held pulic office. That is not totally disqualifying, you know!
So the issue of out-of-control Congressional spending is now completely off of the table?
Since you mention it, Lou Dobbs just brought that up. Hunter mentioned one that is his biggest donor. He also mentioned that he shot down legislation that would have benefited them. The transcript will be up soon.
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/
BOO! Happy Holloween!
If your solution includes spending no money on national defense at all, yes that solution is off the table.
He is running to convey the Republican military message in the primary.
Frist will convey the health care positions.
Some of that logrolling is Duncan Hunter voting for the other guy's pork. I'll ask again: is the issue of out-of-control Congressional spending is now completely off of the table?
Interesting claim. When, exactly, did he do that? When did he not do that?
Until you propose some solution that does not involve eliminating national defense, we have nothing to discuss.
Why wouldn't they still exist? You have a problem with the JBS?
I do not know. You claim to be the Duncan Hunter corruption expert, why don't you tell us? So far you've offered nothing and I, for one, would like to know if he's corrupt now, not 4 or 5 years from now.
As I said, the transcript will be up later. You can read what he said.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ldt.html
I've been told by a lot of the folks who are salivating over Hunter's run that your answer is simply not acceptable--namely, that we cannot tolerate any Congress that engages in logrolling of pork for necessary expenditures such as national defense--and that we must forfeit Congress to the Democrats for an indefinite period of time until the GOP gets religion on the topic of out-of-control spending.
thanks for the ping.
I've got to do some more research on Hunter. I just saw him on Lou Dobbs. I haven't read through this thread in its entirety yet, but I want to know more about his position on the illegals that are already here, amnesty, and if he's spoken out at all about SPP/NAU.
For 45 years I have had 3 basic problems with the JBS:
1) Their weaknesses in serious political analysis.
2) Their tendency in electoral politics to ally with the left, in order to defeat other conservatives.
3) They are political poison.
I hope that this is a satisfactory explanation.
Do a search for Duncan Hunter scandal. He may have a problem because Rep. Cunningham ties. Getting harder and harder to find anyone that does not have a slight taint to them.
Gunner
You have just described, in tendentious language, nearly the entire purpose of electing legislators, that is to determine how government many should be raised and allocated. Prior to legislatures, the rulers simply decreed what taxes should be and how they should be sent. Since the rise of legislature we have elected folks to 'logroll' or argue and bargain over these matters.
I am not quite sure whether you are proposing anarchy or absolutism, but I am not a customer for either.
'many' = 'money'. Sorry.
Be still my beating heart...
James Garfield went from the House to the Presidency. And was shortly after assassinated. His VP Chester Arthur had never been elected to anything prior to becoming VP.
Grover Cleveland was the only Democratic President of that era and is the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms.
In a fashion Gerald Ford also went from the House to the Presidency.
Allen appears to have helped the media do their damage.
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