- Voted AGAINST the surge:
Had Jones gotten his way,
we would have
surrendered to Al Qaeda,
granting them victory in
their most clearly defined
battlefield against us.
- For an inside look at the
importance of Iraq 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 Jones voted to
leave the Iraqi people, please
read the following post by Victor
Davis Hanson: "Thyestean Feast." .
- Voted FOR using
congress's purse-strings to
force withdrawal from Iraq;
one of only two G.O.P. representatives
to vote with the Dems on this bill
(McArthur).
- Voted AGAINST reinstating
funds for missile defense
(ACU-6).
- Voted FOR the 2007 Energy
Policy that, according to the ACU,
mandated reliance on biofuels while
not allowing oil supplies to increase.
The policy also stiffened regulations
and raised taxes $2 billion.
- Voted AGAINST Earmark
Reform aimed to cut runaway
spending (ACU-6).
- Voted AGAINST off-shore
drilling in 07 (ACU-6).
- Voted AGAINST a 2006
conservative 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 AGAINST military
tribunals for enemy
combatants.
- Voted AGAINST an
amendment 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 censuring Joe
Wilson for shouting "You
Lie," during an Obama address
(Kraushaar). Click the below link to watch
Democratic law-makers heckle Bush
en masse during an '05 address:
- 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 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, Jones 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 the AMT
"Relief" Bill, which raised
taxes on U.S. energy
producers. At a time of record-
high energy prices when some
legislators were calling for a tax
holiday at the gas pump, Jones was
voting to raise taxes on the energy
sector (ACU-8).
- Voted FOR the economic
stimulus bill of September
2008 (ACU-8).
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