Posted on 06/18/2010 4:14:04 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Hayworth wasn’t a fiscal conservative champ
From the political notebook:
* In his effort to upend John McCain in a Republican primary, J.D. Hayworth is obviously trying to tap into the energy in the tea party movement and depict himself as its champion.
It’s an incongruous fit and claim.
To the extent the tea party represents new energy it is the increased activism of fiscal conservatives, concerned about an overreaching federal government and the sorry state of its finances.
Overreaching and fiscal indiscipline actually began in the Bush administration. There were two votes that were acid tests for true fiscal conservatism during that period.
The first was President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act, which was the largest expansion of the role of the federal government in local education since Jimmy Carter. True fiscal conservatives believe that the role of the federal government in education should be eliminated, not substantially increased.
The second was Bush’s Medicare prescription drug benefit, the largest expansion of the entitlement state since LBJ.
As a congressman, Hayworth flunked both tests. He voted for both No Child Left Behind and the Medicare prescription drug benefit.
He was hardly alone. The overwhelming majority of Republicans in Congress voted for both programs. It was the beginning of Republicans losing their claim to be the party of fiscal discipline.
But not all Republicans went along, and not all Republicans in the Arizona delegation. Jeff Flake and John Shadegg voted against both measures. McCain voted against the prescription drug benefit.
And then there is the matter of earmarks. Flake has correctly called them the gateway drug for runaway spending. They drive true fiscal conservatives nuts, since they mostly fund local projects that are none of the rightful business of the federal government.
As a congressman, Hayworth was an avid earmarker.
Hayworth is defending himself against the porker charge by citing ranking by Citizens Against Government Waste in which he scored a single percentage point better than McCain.
A more revealing measure is the ranking of the National Taxpayers Union, which evaluates all votes that affect fiscal policy.
Hayworth had a decent record, with an average score of 70 percent during his years in Congress. He regularly got A and B grades from NTU.
But not a stellar record and less than McCain’s 77 percent, Shadegg’s 78 percent, Jon Kyl’s 85 percent – and light years behind Flake’s 91 percent.
Hayworth stood up to the Bush administration on immigration and trade with China. But on spending, he was a party guy – getting ahead by going along and playing the game.
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Where did I post ANYTHING about the title this thread?
Answer, NOWHERE. I could care less about it. The Dems who might.
You lose AGAIN!
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It's not surprising to see you attacking J.D. for McCain, seeing as you also attacked DeVore for Fiorina.
Facts are facts.
Not surprised to see you ripping Sarah Palin, the only Conservative Republican who can beat Obama in 2012.
Just listened to Fiorina on Cavuto blsting Obama re his stand on Arizona and the immig law.
And supporting Gov. Brewer and her fight against the illegals.
Also Fiorina blasting Obama using the spill to push capt & tax which she is against.
Exactly. Pathetic thread.
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He's starting to suck up to the establishment. He complained long and loudly about the RINOs in the Senate, but has not endorsed anybody running against a sitting Republican Senator. If he continues to disappoint this way, he will become part of the problem, not the solution.
Nothing rabbits do can scuttle her candidacy, let this be said 385 times...
That's because she's the one doing all the work, starting with her embrace of the RINO McCain!
let this be said 385 times...
Only because you were too stupid to understand what I said the first time, and the second, and so forth.
You’ll come round when she actually announces. I promise I won’t remind you of this slight aberration on your part...
Sure, just like I "c[a]me round" for McRINO!
You sound just like McCain, like Graham, and like the rest of the RINOs who think that I as a conservative "have nowhere else to go"!
Well, you're wrong, troll. Now go to hell!
Har, har.
I don't have a backyard, but since you're in the mood for flying saucers...
No.
Never have supported the flip-flopping Socialist bum; never will.
McCain is a leftist, globalist whore.
Are you suggesting that she was forced to act as the VP candidate?
” You’ll come round when she actually announces. I promise I won’t remind you of this slight aberration on your part...”
This is what the spineless, gutless RINOS at Free Republic think we will do. Especially the handful of Palin worshippers. It won’t happen.
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