The Truth about Mike Huckabee

I have had it with fellow Christians jumping on the Mike Huckabee bandwagon solely because he was a Baptist minister. Below are some YouTube clips which show the side of Mike Huckabee that the James Dobson sheep don't want you to see:

On ID cards for Illegals:


And on raising taxes as governor of Arkansas:


And here he is caught lying about the tax hikes:


CNN exposing his record on taxes, immigration, and releasing a muderer/rapist:


I don't know how much more my parents and other Huck-a-bucks need to see this guy is another slick willy like the last governor from Hope, AR, to become President of the US, Bill Clinton.

It's not yours to give

In light of the "housing crisis" and everyone's desire for a government bailout of irresponsible borrowers and lenders, I remembered a speech by Col. David Crockett during his time as a US Congressmen from Tennessee. To give historical context to this, the Speaker of the House was about to put a bill to vote for appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several moving speeches had been made in the bill's favor when Crockett stood up and spoke:

“Mr. Speaker–I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him.

Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as a charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week’s pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks.”

He took his seat. Nobody replied. The bill was put upon its passage, and, instead of passing unanimously, as was generally supposed, and as, no doubt, it would, but for that speech, it received but few votes, and, of course, was lost.

Something to consider every time someone calls for a government bailout.