Posted on 01/30/2007 2:06:16 PM PST by YCTHouston
I agree. And charming to boot.
[ACU] ratings encompass three general categories: (1) economic and budget matters; (2) social and cultural issues, and (3) defense and foreign policy. ACU endeavors to analyze votes from each category in order to obtain a balanced, comprehensive picture of an individual member's ideological predisposition based upon recorded records.You had something else in mind?
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Yes it does. But he looked, saw the barren landscape and had the cajones to jump in the ring. Please don't confuse Hunter with Ron Paul or Tancredo. He is a solid mainstream conservative (yes, yes I know, the personality of cardboard).
OMG Senator Airhead no fit for anything. She has never put forth any ideas and mainly stays out of the light.
Oooh, that imagery will be at work for a while...
Well then you are either a liberal Democrat or you aspire to be one, cuz that's page one in their playbook. If someone criticizes a liberal woman, call them a woman-hater. If someone critcizes a liberal black, call them racist, etc. etc. And in Kay's book, if someone is against killing babies, say they are against 'women's rights'
Kay Bailey Hutchison Fails to Stop Confirmation of Leon Holmes
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm the nomination of Leon Holmes to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas by a vote of 51-46. Mr. Holmes, a highly qualified and respected constitutional attorney who was supported by Arkansas Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor, both liberal Democrats, is a Catholic and a former president of Arkansas Right to Life.
Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison joined with her liberal and feminist colleagues to oppose his confirmation because of his pro-life views and because he and his wife co-authored an article for a Catholic newspaper on the roles of husbands and wives based on the epistles of St. Paul which have been read as a part of Catholic marriage ceremonies throughout Church history. (Eph. v. 22-25, 28-31,33). She and four other Republican Senators, Lincoln Chafee (RI), Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins (ME), and John Warner (VA) voted against the President’s nominee for the Arkansas federal bench. Mrs. Hutchison, who supports legal abortion until viability, not only voted against Leon Holmes’ confirmation, but she went to the Senate floor and spoke against him as well, saying that his statements over the last 25 years "lead me to conclude that he doesn't have the fundamental commitment to the total equality of women in our society."
Tell it to NARAL. Those silly baby-killers keep giving her a 0 rating.
I wrote her office at the time of the Holmes confirmation. I didn't agree, but she explained her position thoroughly and didn't do any dance. I take it as a given that I'm not going to agree with her 100%. But calling her a "liberal" is a joke, unless you really think those of us (including me) who prefer the Tancredos and Buchanans make up the mainstream majority.
Here's the problem with any ratings system, right or left. They pick certain votes, particularly during an election year for that member, that they really think will either boost or hurt whoever the target is. Given what they pick for incumbents they like at ACU, a 91 is barely minimally passing for a conservative. The issues are no-brainers for conservatives. For her not to make a 100 on this weighted test says volumes.
They do the same thing on the left. This is Washington.
It is about a "Good Housekeeping" seal approach to press/communications -- getting people to quote these artificially created ratings systems are quick tools to communicate something positive or negative.
It is a communications tool. It should not replace good old fashioned legwork to study who truly is a conservative.
I love reading your posts to see which Anymouse is going to post. Will it be the rah-rah everything Republican is wonderful RPT cheerleader Anymouse, or the Mad at the World Everyone's a RINO Anymouse?
Is there any rhyme or reason to any of it, or does it just depend on who you're flaming?
Bad day at the cubicle?
I don't think she is a liberal, YCT. I just don't think she is a conservative. Holmes is NOT the only judge, by the way, that she had heartburn over. Let me assure you that if it werent for Santorum (who she served as vice chair of the Republican Conference with), she would have voted against several of the President's judges.
On something like the judicial nominations issue -- where EVERY issue we care about either starts or ends in a courtroom -- there is NO room for error here. One activist judge can do more damage than perhaps you realize -- the awesome coercive power of the federal bench can undo whatever votes come out of the Senate/House/legislature or from the voting public.
Blowing smoke?
Aaaaaaaah, now I know why you are "1rudeboy".
They do not score every vote, pal. They cherry pick votes as every rating system does. There is no complete picture except for every vote cast.
I do know where of I speak. I won the Reagan Award from ACU.
They've been doing it since 1971, so I doubt it's contrived to help a particular member get reelected - and when was the last time you saw an ACU rating in a campaign commercial? I agree the score card is only one measure (i.e. Mel Martinez getting a 100), but it does show how a member compares to his/her colleagues. See, for instance, John McCain's 72.
EVERY rating system is a tool for communications purposes. Every single one.
I've known Kay for 25 years - worked on her very first run for Congress in Dallas (unsuccessful).
Good person as politicos go.
Come back to Texas!
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