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Liberty index
"Hammer of Truth" Stephen Gordon has posted a scorecard of the entire House of Representatives, scoring how congressmen fall on a Libertarian index.
Given that Libertarians have traditionally voted Republican, you'd expect Republicans to dominate the top slots, right? But Republicans take only 1 of the top 20 slots in the Liberty index. In fact, Democrats occupy 160 of the top 168 spots. The Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, comes in dead last.
I've told my Libertarian friends in recent years that they're voting against their beliefs; now here's documentation to back it up.
Gordon's conclusion? "Congress is not representative of America." Gosh, no kidding.
February 18, 2006 at 05:29 PM in Politics | Permalink
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