SPAM??? Are you trying to tell me that he did not vote for NCLB, the Prescription Drug Bill, 2005 Highway, Sarbanes-Oxley? Did he not vote against the Republican Study Committee’s fiscally conservative annual budgets (2006, 2005, 2003...)?
“If that’s the best you got, it’s sad. The old “Flake Amendments” are this year’s Dingell Norwood. NOthing but Fluff.”
No, your excusing this spending record is sad. The Flake amendments were aimed at reigning in Congressional Pork, hardly “FLUFF”. 0 for 19 on anti pork amendments is not the voting pattern of someone I want for POTUS.
“And the fact of the matter is on all of those other items, Fred would have been right in line along with Hunter and the vast majority of GOPers.”
,br> I doubt it, Fred has been on the losing end of 99 - 1 votes in the Senate because he did not feel that the issue being discussed was within the jurisdiction of the Federal Government. This was on issues far less obvious than NCLB, to say nothing of the Prescription Drug fiasco. Fred has a proven tract record of bucking the majority and going it alone if it meant upholding the principles of Federalism, something that he does more than pay lip service to. Most likely, he would have stood with Mike Pence and the Republican Study Committee in opposing the recent trend in the GOP towards big government conservatism.
If you want someone who has been a one man fighting machine against silly spending, loss of US sovereignty, sealing the borders, strengthening our military and smash mouthing the libs since 1981, it ain’t Thompson. It’s Hunter. Not only a fighter, but a man with far more vision than his colleagues.
Search Duncan Hunter by keyword here and see the archive articles I and a few others have posted. He was sounding the alarm bells in the 1990s over our weakening of human intel. He has warning about China for the last 20 years. He has been the man since Reagan left office to fight and fund Missile Defense. He has been a porkbuster since his first term. He has voted for every tax cut bill. He was a staunch anti-abortionist before anti-abortion became the norm in GOP politics. He fought tooth and nail against Clinton’s pathetic, pork laden crime bill (that Rudy supported). It goes on and on. Has he had a few wrong votes, sure. But very few.