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(Flashback) The Club for Growth opposes Congressman Hunter
Free Republic ^ | October 30, 2006 | Andrew Roth

Posted on 11/22/2010 8:55:22 PM PST by Josh Painter

Since Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) is apparently going to explore the possibility of running for president in 2008, I thought I'd dig up some of his roll call votes. Like most Republicans, he's strong on tax cuts, but he's been part of the big government spending spree of the last 6 years. He also has a protectionist streak in him. Here are some of the more troubling votes:

NO on NAFTA

YES on No Child Left Behind

YES on Sarbanes-Oxley

YES on the 2003 Medicare Drug Benefit

NO on CAFTA

YES on 2005 Highway Bill

YES on the 527 bill (like most Republicans, he flip-flopped, having first voted NO on McCain-Feingold)

Hunter also went 0 for 19 on the Flake anti-pork amendments.

Despite being a member of the Republican Study Committee, Hunter frequently votes NO on their fiscally conservative annual budgets (2006, 2005, 2003...)

We gave him a 49% on the 2005 Club for Growth scorecard. That places him 187th within the House GOP conference, out of roughly 230 members.

National Taxpayers Union shows a more telling trend. He was strong in the early 1990s, getting "B's" and one "A", but as time went by, like most politicians, his score dropped. For the past few years, he's been getting "C's".


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bogusflakeamendments; california; clubforgrowth; conservativebashing; duncanhunter; fearofhunter; federalspending; hib; larrysinclair; pork; regurgitatedgarbage
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To: pissant

Free Trade is preferable to Protectionism every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Hunter has just a good a chance of becoming President as his father did NONE. You want to talk about a farce that was the Hunter campaign.


21 posted on 11/22/2010 9:32:41 PM PST by arrogantsob
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Yeah, let the politicians make even more decisions about the economy that is the ticket. Give them even more power over the markets isn’t that the conservative dream?


22 posted on 11/22/2010 9:34:37 PM PST by arrogantsob
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To: Josh Painter

Is Duncan Hunter, Sr., seriously, considering running for POTUS in ‘12? Is this the main reason for posting this, or not? I, still, like him, despite all of the reasons why many other people don’t like him.


23 posted on 11/22/2010 9:35:55 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (If leftist legislation that's already in place really can't be ended by non-leftists, then what?)
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To: Rockitz

Free trade is no myth and what you are objecting too isn’t even free trade but managed trade. Tariffs are the means for politicians to seize even MORE power over our economic life something we should resist like the plague.


24 posted on 11/22/2010 9:36:48 PM PST by arrogantsob
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To: arrogantsob

Almost as bad as McCain’s stalking horse, Fred.


25 posted on 11/22/2010 9:39:42 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: arrogantsob

So why do you support free trade over protectionism?


26 posted on 11/22/2010 9:41:57 PM PST by wastedyears (Being "mad as hell" just won't cut it.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

“When I see posts like this, I think of this sad song from the TV show “Dollhouse”:
Remains - (Burn down my home)”

Was there a song for Hannibal Lechter’s cannabalism?


27 posted on 11/22/2010 9:42:23 PM PST by Kent C
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To: pissant

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.


28 posted on 11/22/2010 9:51:14 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: johnthebaptistmoore

No, the reason for posting this is to expose pissy’s blatant hypocrisy. He insists on dredging up posts from years ago and referencing leftist news sources to bash Palin.

As long as he keeps doing that, I’ll respond in kind. If he would stop, I would stop, and we could go on to more productive discussions. But I have no reason to believe he would stop. There’s no cure for PDS.


29 posted on 11/22/2010 10:05:15 PM PST by Josh Painter ("May we always be happy, and may our enemies know it." - Sarah Palin)
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To: Josh Painter

Not to change the subject, but we’ve beaten “free trade” to death.

So what’s wrong with “No Child Left Behind”? I’m usually against top-down micro-management, but when we have a politicized educational establishment and a teachers gone wild workforce, I’d call “No Child Left Behind” a valiant effort at stopping a runaway train.

Unfortunately, our Dept of Education was already an insane asylum when “No Child Left Behind” was conceived, and no cure is possible. So let’s use the remainder of the “education” budget to put the education administrators on a one way cruise ship to any continent that will accept them. Global Warming makes Antarctica the perfect destination.


30 posted on 11/22/2010 10:11:53 PM PST by haroldeveryman
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To: Josh Painter; pissant

pissant is a troll. Pity, but he’s crossed the line and the Sarah Palin hatred isn’t welcome. Can’t attack her current policies -— policies of her own, so this “flashback stuff from McCain’s run” is the stuff of hateful losers.

Good job, Josh!


31 posted on 11/22/2010 10:18:02 PM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: onyx

Yep. It’s always a good job when you find an open borders outfit like CFG to lambaste Hunter. ROFL


32 posted on 11/22/2010 10:26:10 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: onyx

BTW, her current amnesty policy sounds exactly like her old one.


33 posted on 11/22/2010 10:30:11 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Josh Painter

Protectionist Porkers don’t get my vote.....


34 posted on 11/22/2010 10:44:20 PM PST by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: Josh Painter; pissant

PDS? Pissant Derangement Syndrome...


35 posted on 11/22/2010 11:07:42 PM PST by FTJM
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To: Josh Painter

Club for Growth didn’t like the most conservative in the race? Next thing you’ll tell me is that CPAC is pushing for gay rights.


36 posted on 11/22/2010 11:08:11 PM PST by Kevmo (Has Obama resigned yet?)
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To: wastedyears

Free Trade allows the market to more efficiently allocate scarce resources. When politicians decide relative prices and how and where goods are supplied it results in less for everyone.

Communist decision-making processes ruin the markets and increase the power of the political class. Protectionism uses the same principles where the Central Committee (Congressional Committees) decide on tariff rates and which industries are to be favored and also disfavored.

There has never been a totally Free Trade system in effect anywhere or at any time but that is the goal which should be aimed at by governments.

I would except certain defense industries from the application of Free Trade principles but that is for a political purpose i.e. national security.


37 posted on 11/22/2010 11:24:49 PM PST by arrogantsob
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To: pissant

Was that remark intended to have some meaning?


38 posted on 11/22/2010 11:26:13 PM PST by arrogantsob
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To: Josh Painter

Rapunzel?


39 posted on 11/23/2010 12:04:55 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Josh Painter

40 posted on 11/23/2010 4:50:15 AM PST by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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