- For info on the faulty science behind the
legislation, please see the following piece by
Jonah Goldberg and Kim Strassel: "The
Shrinking Consensus."
- For info on the even faultier economics
behind the legislation, please see the
following piece by Guy Benson from National
Review Online: "Cap and Trade Doesn't Work."
- For a sad statement on possible motive
guiding these "GOP Turncoats" (the term
used by Michelle Malkin, as well as quite a
few other conservatives), please see the
following piece by Kevin Mooney of The
Washington Examiner": "Republicans who
helped pass 'cap and trade' benefitted from
environmental donations."
- Voted AGAINST the surge:
Had Castle gotten his way,
we would have surrendered
to Al Qaeda, granting them
victory in our most clearly
defined battlefield.
- For an inside look at Iraq's
importance to Al Qaeda, please
read the following field report,
courtesy of Michael Totten and
Colonel Mike Silverman: "Al Qaeda
Lost"
- For a poignant reminder of the
hands into which Castle voted to
leave the Iraqi people, please
read the following post by Victor
Davis Hanson: "Thyestean Feast." .
- Voted AGAINST the right of
workers to a secret ballot
when voting on whether to
unionize (ACU-6).
- Voted AGAINST Earmark
Reform aimed to cut runaway
spending (ACU-6).
- Voted AGAINST reinstating
funds for missile defense (ACU-
6).
- Voted AGAINST speeding
up construction on the
border fence (ACU-6).
- Voted AGAINST off-shore
drilling in 06 (ACU-4)
- Voted AGAINST off-shore
drilling in 07 (ACU-6).
- Voted AGAINST easing
McCain / Feingold
restrictions on political
speech in the weeks before
an election.
- Voted AGAINST withholding
tax-payer dollars from
Planned Parenthood (ACU-6)
Read what Kathryn Jean Lopez has to
say about Planned Parenthood:
"Planned".
- Voted FOR Pelosi's "light-
bulb ban" that, as the ACU
explains, regulates "lights and
appliances (including a ban on the
incandescent light bulb), creating new
programs for alternative energy
sources, imposing more regulations on
energy companies and mandating
vastly increased use of ‘renewable’
energy” (ACU-6).
- Voted FOR Barney Frank’s
Housing Trust Fund of 2007
(ACU-5), which Speaker Pelosi boasted
as “the largest expansion in federal
housing programs in decades” (Pelosi 1)
and which the Bush administration
opposed as “a duplicate program” that
“would create an undue and
counterproductive reliance on Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac” (Woolley & Gerhard 1).
- Voted TO OVERRIDE Bush’s
veto of the State Children’s
Health Insurance Program
(SCHIP) expansion (ACU-6). This
program was created in 1997 only to
provide insurance to children from
uninsured families who were narrowly
above poverty. But 10 years later, the
Dems moved to expand the program--
and, as always, the devil was in the
details. By joining forces with the
Dems, Castle chose to do the following:
- Re-define "children" to mean "21-year-
old adults."
- Re-define "just above poverty" to
mean "$80,000 income."
- Let some taxpayers pay for other
taxpayers' insurance (even if the
former make less than the latter and
purchase their own insurance).
- Give incentives for states to “recruit”
new enrollees and thus make this big
program even bigger. (Carney-1).
- Voted FOR the Democrat's
2007 Energy Policy that
mandated reliance on biofuels while not
allowing oil supplies to increase. The
policy also stiffened regulations and
raised taxes $2 billion (ACU-6).
- Voted AGAINST a 2006 con-
servative budget alternative
that would have extended Bush’s tax
cuts while trimming more than 300
billion dollars of discretionary spending,
done away with close to 150 programs,
and increased funds for the military
and for veterans. It also would have
opened ANWR for drilling (ACU-4) .
- Voted FOR applying McCain
/ Feingold to grassroots
organizations (ACU-4) NOTE:
Undoubtedly, in this instance, the dems
were the good guys. This was GOP-
sponsored and nearly ALL republicans
voted for it. However, we at Remove
the Rinos believe there is no excuse for
voting against the 1st Amendment no
matter how many republicans do so
and no matter how reprehensible
George Soros’ 527s are. And if John
McCain were to jump off a bridge…..??
- Voted AGAINST drilling in
ANWR in 2005 (ACU-2).
- Voted AGAINST drilling in
ANWR in 2006 (ACU-4) .
- Voted AGAINST a 2008
motion to allow drilling in
ANWR, the Outer-
Continental Shelf, and other
territories in the West (ACU-8).
- Voted AGAINST an amend-
ment "to prevent a federal
court in Indiana from
banning prayer in the
Indiana House of
Representatives" (ACU-4).
- Voted AGAINST banning
taxpayer dollars from going
to the U.N. to renovate, or build
anew, their headquarters in the United
States (ACU-4).
- Voted FOR raising min-
imum wage after the Dems
rejected tax cuts that would
have protected entry-level
workers and small
businesses (ACU-6) . For insights
into the harmful effects the measure, in
its House form, would have meant to
workers and small businesses, National
Review Online consulted with four
leading economists. All four economists
agreed that only politicians stood to
gain from the measure : "At
Minimum…Should Republicans fight back against a
minimum-wage increase?"
- Voted AGAINST an amend-
ment that would keep
government funds from
being used to enforce
trigger-lock regulations (ACU-4).
Critics argue these regulations have
little value in promoting gun safety and
are primarily punitive in design, adding
cost and red tape to gun ownership.
Still worse, these trigger locks would
hamper, if not outright nullify, a gun-
owner's ability to use the weapon in
self-defense. This suggests another
Machiavellian gun-control strategy: if
you can't make a gun illegal, do the
next best thing--make it useless.
- Voted AGAINST allowing an
Indiana courthouse to
display the Ten
Commandments (ACU-2).
- Voted AGAINST an amend-
ment to cut discretionary
spending by 2% while
protecting the Bush tax cuts
(ACU-2).
- Voted AGAINST the 2005
Republican Budget
Resolution that, according to the
ACU, established "broad spending and
revenue targets for five years, limiting
discretionary spending to $843 billion
in fiscal 2006, and requiring $70 billion
in tax cuts and $34.7 billion in savings"
(ACU-2).
- Voted FOR banning 50-
caliber rifle exports (ACU-2).
According to the NRA-Institute for
Legislative Action (NRA-ILA 1), this bill,
which was sponsored "by notoriously
anti-gun Representative James Moran,"
outlawed exports of .50-caliber rifles,
and it marked the first congressional
vote on any kind of .50-caliber ban.
- Voted FOR funding the U.N.
Population Fund (ACU-2).
- Voted AGAINST U.N. Reform
that required the U.N. to provide
greater budget transparency and
oversight or give up half its U.S.
funding. It also required that no more
than 22% of the U.N.'s budget be
provided by the U.S. (ACU-2).
- Voted FOR spending an
additional $100 million on
Public Broadcasting (ACU-2).
- Voted AGAINST a ban on
federal eminent-domain
seizures that force property out of
the hands of private citizens and into
the hands of private developers (ACU-2).
- Voted AGAINST reforming
the Endangered Species Act
(ACU-2). to reimburse property owners for
losses suffered from not being able to
develop their land. It also clarified
species designations, better protecting
the species in need of protection and
better targeting the properties in need
of oversight (Marano and Lieberman).
- Voted AGAINST a bill to
protect gun-makers from
lawsuits that hold manufacturers
responsible for violence committed by
criminals (ACU-2). One of only four GOP
representatives to vote against the bill
(Washington Post-2).
- Voted AGAINST the Online
Freedom of Speech bill, which
would have prevented e-mail and blogs
from being regulated by the Federal
Election Commission (ACU-2). In
essence, this bill's defeat leaves open
the possibility that McCain/Feingold
could reach its way dramatically into
the Internet (Hayward).
- Voted FOR a 700% increase
in funding for the HOPE VI
Public Housing Program,
even as $2 billion remained in the
coffers, unspent. This was a program
that Bush had marked for elimination
(ACU-8).
- Voted AGAINST the 2008
Republican budget
resolution that, according to the
ACU, "would have made the Bush tax
cuts permanent, capped discretionary
spending at $973 billion, reduced
mandatory spending by $12 billion over
five years, and imposed a moratorium
on pork barrel 'earmarks'” (ACU-8).
- Voted AGAINST a 2008
motion to allow drilling in
ANWR, the Outer-
Continental Shelf, and other
territories in the West (ACU-8).
- Voted FOR permanently
raising taxes on businesses
while temporarily extending tax credits
on “green” initiatives. This was
presented to the American people as
"tax relief" (a deed that the ACU
appropriately describes as "legislative
sleight-of-hand") (ACU-8).
- Voted FOR the Democrat's
Mortgage Bailout (Round
One). Introduced in May 08, this bill
set the tone for the bailout fever that
would soon infect Washington. Under
threat of Bush veto, Castle voted in
favor of the bailout, which sought to
further distort the marketplace by
increasing the Federal Housing
Authority's influence, guaranteeing
hundreds of billions of dollars in Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac loans.
Simultaneously, it provided a multi-
billion dollar trust fund available to
parties of questionable relevance and
repute, such as ACORN (ACU-8).
- For background into the
bill's tie-in to our current
bailout woes, see the
following prescient NRO
editorial: "Do Nothing,
Congress."
- Voted AGAINST
strengthening missile
defense in 2008 (ACU-8).
- Voted FOR penalizing
energy producers. As part of
an ongoing assault on the energy
sector at a time when we most needed
to encourage exploration and drilling,
Castle voted with the democrats on a
bill that, as the ACU explains, would
have placed "new requirements and
penalties on holders of federal oil and
gas leases" (ACU-8).
- Voted FOR the Paycheck
Equality Bill, which--at its best--
duplicated anti-discrimination laws
already in effect, and--at its worst--
moved the burden of proof in
discrimination cases from the employee
to the employer (a clear violation of the
innocent-until-proven-guilty principle)
and opened the door to oppressive
intrusion into the labor market (ACU-8).
- Voted AGAINST allowing D.
C. residents to own fire-
arms (ACU-8).
- Voted FOR the economic
stimulus bill of September
2008 (ACU-8).
- Voted FOR bailing out the
auto industry (ACU-8).Four months
later, our president was firing CEOs.
Either Castle favors nationalizing
industry, or he's too short-sighted to
deserve our trust. Either way, he's bad
for the G.O.P.
- Voted AGAINST protecting
the Reagan/Bush policy of
withholding aid from for-
eign agencies that perform
abortions (ACU-6) Read what Kathryn
Jean Lopez has to say about the vote:
"This Mexico Policy is a Keeper."
- Voted FOR the $700 billion
bailout of the financial
industries (TARP) (ACU-8).
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