Posted on 03/02/2007 2:37:09 PM PST by NoneOfTheAbove
"Over his year and a half in the House of Representatives and his ten years in the U.S. Senate, Senator Brownback has proven himself to be, on balance, a strong defender of limited government and pro-growth policies," said the Club's President, Pat Toomey. "On taxes, Social Security reform, school choice, and tort reform, Senator Brownback has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to fighting for American taxpayers. His record on trade, political speech, and government regulation of business is generally pro-freedom, with a few exceptions."
"This largely pro-growth record, however, is tarnished by occasional support for increased government spending and for the 2003 Medicare prescription drug plan. Despite these aberrations, Senator Brownback's pro-growth record provides a very encouraging forecast of how he may govern if elected president. We encourage Senator Brownback to apply the same commitment to curbing government spending as he has to promoting and implementing other pro-growth, free-market policies."
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| Tancredo | Paul | Brownback | Gingrich | Hagel | McCain | Allen | Hunter | |
| ACU: | 99% | 83% | 95% | 90% | 86% | 83% | 92% | 92% |
| CAGW: | 92% | 81% | 83% | 77% | 87% | 71% | 70% | |
| NTU: | 78% | 89% | 77% | 79% | 76% | 77% | 72% | 63% |
| Club For Growth: | 88% | 82% | 88% | 99% | 76% | 84% | 49% | |
| Average: | 89% | 84% | 86% | 85% | 85% | 81% | 80% | 69% |
| Pork Reduction | 89% | 100% | 0% | |||||
The boy certainly seemed to drop the ball when he had a lot going for him.
Yes.
Brownbeck, against the surge and for troop pull out
Brownbeck, pro amnesty.
We don't need another democrat.
Representative Hunter gets relatively low ratings because he is a big spender and a protectionist.
Absolutely, those are my primary complaints---and he'll never beat Hillary. I would never support him for my party's candidate.
If he and I had been present in the same room, after his Judicial Committee vote on immigration, he would have had to PHYSICALLY defend himself! I lost respect--completely.
Hunter spends on protecting our troops with body armor, etc., and our defense, which is a good thing.
DUNCAN HUNTER:
"Let me give you some examples of things that I have added to the budget; in fact, I publish mine on the internet. I call them congressional initiatives because I think that earmark is a pejorative term.
I put in an additional 10 million dollars for jammers to defeat road-side bombs, portable jammers. The Pentagon didn't have any jammers that could be carried by infantrymen. That meant they had nothing for the troops. I put in 10 million dollars and we built and deployed jammers for our dismounted troops within 70 days. We did 10,000 of them in 70 days.
Armored vests, additional humvees, a ship, the X-Craft which goes 60 miles an hour, which is manned by a crew of only 26 people, which is truly transformational of the US Navy, and which has been given glowing marks by former Secretaries of the Navy - that was added.
Let me give you other things that have been added by Congress - an aircraft carrier when Jimmy Carter didn't want to put it in the budget, the B-1 bomber and the President didn't want to put it in the budget, so the point is that Congress is supposed to, and is charged, and the Constitution says Congress shall provide for the Navies, the equipping of the Navies, the Army, and by implication, the Air Force.
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http://www.rightnation.us/forums/index.php?showtopic=114155
Let's see would you vote for someone who supports increasing non-defense discretionary spending more than any administration since LBJ?
Someone who voted for NCLB, CFR, Sarbanes-Oxley, Medicare Part D, and hugely bloated agriculture and highway bills?
Someone who voted to increase
No thanks, he's too much of a big spender, big government type for me.
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