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Why He Matters After Republicans took a drubbing
in the 2008 election, many turned to Hoekstra, a...
fiercely fiscal and social conservative to help change the tarnished image of his party s leadership. In one direction, Hoekstra was pulled toward ...
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Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) - Who Runs Gov - Government ...
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The Keep Terrorists Out of America Act
Weekly Standard Blog —
It's a great name for a bill, and it will make great fodder for 2010 campaign ads -- who wants to be the guy who voted against keeping terrorists out of America? The bill was announced at a press conference this morning with the ranking members of each House committee present. It would require the President to get the consent of both the governor and state legislature before moving terrorists now being held at Gitmo to any U.S. state.
Here's a clip of Rep. Pete Hoekstra at the presser this morning explaining to a particularly thick reporter why the threat posed by al Qaeda detainees is different, and far more serious, that that posed by German prisoners of war. As ...
Terrorism Is Not More Dangerous Than Nazi Germany, Period
Library Grape —
Pants-wetting nonsense like this from Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Crazytown) is enough to make your head explode: Greg Sargent's sums up the bigger theme behind Hoekstra's comments thusly: The argument that terrorists represent a graver threat than the Nazis did appears to be gaining ...
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Rep. Pete Hoekstra Bashes Global Currency
washingtonindependent.com 4/2/2009 — I was just talking to Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), who’s leaving Congress to run for governor of Michigan, about his proposed Parental Rights Amendment —a constitutional change that would, among other things, prevent “any source of international law” ...
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