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Huckabee's Folly

This is one of those stories that forced me, to actually go back and make sure that I did not blog on it previously; and so I did and I can safely say, that I was not one of the people that fell for this story. (whew!)

Once again, Mike Huckabee is talking out his rather large anal orifice. According to a report in politico.com:

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee warned supporters Tuesday that the $828 billion stimulus package is “anti-religious.”

In an e-mail that was also posted on his blog ahead of the Senate’s passage, Huckabee wrote: “The dust is settling on the ‘bipartisan’ stimulus bill and one thing is clear: It is anti-religious.”

The former Republican presidential candidate pointed to a provision in both the House and Senate versions banning higher education funds in the bill from being used on a “school or department of divinity.”

“You would think the ACLU drafted this bill,” Huckabee said. “For all of the talk about bipartisanship, this Congress is blatantly liberal.”

“Emily’s List, radical environmental groups, etc. all have a seat at the decision making table in Washington these days,” he continued. “Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are in charge and they are working with an equally ‘progressive’ President Obama (remember his voting record is more liberal than Ted Kennedy!).”

There is only one little problem with this whole story. Mike Huckabee is, as always; with those on the far religious right; Wrong.

Charles Johnson over at Little Green Footballs sets the record straight:

Let’s look at the language in the stimulus bill that’s causing this freak-out, shall we?

PROHIBITED USES OF FUNDS. – No funds awarded under this section may be used for – (C) modernization, renovation, or repair of facilities – (i) used for sectarian instruction, religious worship, or a school or department of divinity; or (ii) in which a substantial portion of the functions of the facilities are subsumed in a religious mission.

Apparently we’re supposed to just forget about that pesky old Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which states:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…

The government does not fund religious schools or churches for this very reason, and the language in the stimulus bill is absolutely consistent with the Constitution of the United States.

Mike Huckabee is feeding raw meat to Christian fundamentalists, but apparently he’s forgotten that if you revoke the Establishment Clause for Christian schools and churches, you also have to revoke it for Jewish and Muslim schools and houses of worship. For some reason, I don’t think that would meet with Huck’s approval.

There are plenty of things in the stimulus bill to be unhappy about, but this issue is being cynically distorted by people like Huckabee and DeMint to stir up the far right religious wing of the GOP.

And by the way, Huckabee, DeMint, and World Net Daily have another thing in common; they’re all in favor of teaching creationism in public schools—another violation of the Establishment Clause.

Which is exactly what Huckabee, WorldNetDaily and the rest of the far right wing, Zionist types want to do:

“I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution,” Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. “But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that’s what we need to do — to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view.”

….and there you have it. The entire far right wing agenda of the Religious or Christian right in America. Subvert the Constitution of the United States of America and make America into a Christian theocracy, instead of a secular Republic that it was founded as. A secular republic which paid a feeble homage to a “God”, and not to Jesus Christ, as claimed by some on the extreme far right. You want to know why these people did this? Because they were quite wise, those who had fled Great Britain and the religious persecution that existed there at the time, knew that if they founded the United States with a language that paid homage to a particular deity or type of Religion; that they would be opening the door to same sort of persecution that the founders experienced in Great Britain.

What I blogged about above, is why I have always been gun shy, so to speak, about aligning myself with the Republican Party.  Because of the faction of those within that party who want to do that very thing. Most of them have left and joined the Constitution Party.  But there are those still within the party, who’s mind still go back to 1980, when Reagan was elected and the majority of the Republican Party was living in the delusion that the United States was going to become some Christian Republic of some sort. Needless to say, and thankfully, that did not happen. Not because I do not love the Lord, but because I happen to believe the full separation of Church and State and I reject the doctrines of the Christian Right and the Zionist movement as un-scriptural and un-Constitutional and at times bordering on a Fascist State. Freedom of Religion and FROM Religion is a right that I cherish and will fight for on this Blog, as long as I am able.

Red State Update on Obama's Stimulus News Conference

Jackie and Dunlap on Obama’s first prime-time news conference. Stimulus pimpin’ and Elkhart bashin’ ensue.

MSNBC's Chris Matthews Gushes over "The One"

This is just unbelievable, they are not even trying to hide it anymore. Mr. “Leg Tingle”, Olberdouche and Bull Dyke Maddow are all just a twitter over “The One”

Video: (Via Breit Bart)

…and they wonder why the Media is taking a big hit…. 🙄 It’s not because of the economy, it is because of crap like this.

As Geithner rolls out Bailout Plans and Stimulus passes senate, stocks plummet

So much for reviving the economy. No sooner does Obama’s Treasury secretary roll out his plan for bailing out the banks and Obama’s “stimulus plan” passes muster in the Senate; the stock market drops and drops quite hard.

Here are the charts (as of 1:34 PM EST):

Dow Jones:

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New York Stock Exchange:

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The rest of the numbers:

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So much for Stimulus eh?

I think Barry needs to try again… Badly.

(Charts by Think or Swim)

New Hampshire Draws the line in the sand….

Pat Dollard Reports:

The New Hampshire state legislature took an unbelievably bold step Monday by introducing a resolution to declare certain actions by the federal government to completely totally void and warning that certain future acts will be viewed as a “breach of peace” with the states themselves that risks “nullifying the Constitution.”

This act by New Hampshire is a clear warning to the federal government that they could face being stripped of their power by the States (presumably through civil war!

The remarkable document outlines with perfect clarity, some basics long forgotten. For instance, it reminds Congress “That the Constitution of the United States, having delegated to Congress a power to punish treason, counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States, piracies, and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations, slavery, and no other crimes whatsoever;. . . . . therefore all acts of Congress which assume to create, define, or punish crimes, other than those so enumerated in the Constitution are altogether void, and of no force;”

Federal gun crime laws? Void. Federal drug crime laws? Void. The gazzillion other federal criminal laws that deal with anything other than the specific enumerated crimes? ALL VOID.

Wow…. This should be an interesting development.

(H/T to Freedom’s Phoenix)

Members of the Black Press not Happy with President Obama

I have some very different feelings than you think about this story, I will explain below…:

After the first black president completed his first prime-time press conference, the black press was red hot.

“We were window dressing,” said Hazel Edney, a reporter with the National Newspaper Publishers Association, also known as the Black Press of America. “We were nothing more than window dressing.”

As the media filed into the stately White House East Room on Monday night, the reporter was shocked to find herself in the front row. Alongside her were the top news agencies, Associated Press, Reuters; also up front, 86-year-old Helen Thomas, who started covering presidents 50 years ago.

Alongside the most prominent journalists in America was Tiffany Cross from Black Entertainment Television. Like Miss Edney, she didn’t know why she was in first-class while all the television networks – every single one – was exiled to the steerage compartment.

“I really don’t know why I’m up here,” Miss Cross said with a shy smile.

While most on the front row got to pose a question to President Obama, the two reporters from the black press did not. Nor did any other black-press reporter, for that matter.

“This was like Reagan, when he’d put all the blacks up front,” said another prominent but visibly peeved black-press reporter who asked to remain anonymous. “He oughta’ be ashamed.”

via Washington Times – CURL: Obama snubs black press.

As I said above, I have mixed feelings about this report; I tend to believe that this report is one those “Let’s stir the pot and see what happens,” kind of reports. President Obama, to his credit, did not run a “Black Power” Presidential campaign, if he had done so, the American people would have been turn off and President Obama would not have made it out of the Primary.

As much as I respect the reporting of the Washington Times and their Conservative stance, I believe that this story is nothing more of the rattling of the race baiting sabers that the Far Right Wing bunch are known for. Yes, that is correct, I am a moderate Conservative and I am admitting that there is a certain bit of reverse race baiting that goes on in those circles. It is a sad fact, but it is the truth.

Former Lieutenant Governor of New York says Stimulus contains rationed medicine

This is President Barack Obama’s idea of economic revival?

The former lieutenant governor of New York is warning that the $50 billion that President Obama expects to spend in the next few years on a nationwide digital health records system for every individual easily could, and probably will, result in rationed medical care.

WND recently reported on a little-discussed provision in Obama’s plan that would demand every American submit to a government program for electronic medical records without a choice to opt out, raising alarms for privacy advocates.

Privacy advocates said patients might be startled to discover personal information could be shared electronically with, perhaps, millions of people, including documentation on abortions, mental health problems, patient non-compliance, lawsuits against doctors and sexual problems.

Sue A. Blevins, president of the Institute for Health Freedom, said unless people have the right to decide “if and when” their health information is shared, there is no real privacy.

Now Betsy McCaughey, former lieutenant governor of New York and an adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, has released a commentary warning about the likelihood of rationed care – or a health care system that simply provides treatment when it determines the cost-benefit ratio for the treatment and the patient meets its guidelines.

Obama plans to spend $50 billion “over five years” to create a system of electronic health records for every person who sees a doctor.

“Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion,” wrote McCaughey. “These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department.”

“If the Obama administration’s economic stimulus bill passes … in its current form, seniors in the U.S. will face … rationing. Defenders of the system say that individuals benefit in younger years and sacrifice later.”

Other nations that utilize such programs typically deny costly treatments to patients who are senior citizens, and McCaughey warns that would be the case in the United States, too.

via Stimulus contains rationed medicine —- WorldNetDaily.

If this report is even remotely true; this would be the same thing as what happened in Germany during World War II and to certain extent here in the United States as well. The very idea of rationing medicine to children who need it most, is about the most despicable thing I ever heard.  I think that this would be good time to stand up and call your senators and demand that this provision be removed from the bill.

I will also say this, that if this stimulus bill fails to deliver all the “Pie in the Sky” promises that Obama is say that it will. He will be a one term President. The people will not be lied to, as I blogged about last night, the far left is already angry over the Obama continued use of Bush tactics, when it comes to trials of the terrorists. So, watch what happens with this Stimulus, if it flops, so will Obama’s approval ratings.

Quotes of the Day

Those who prattle about the perils of protectionism need to be
asked: What has free trade produced, but a bankrupt America that
must go hat-in-hand to Beijing to borrow the money to rebuild our
crumbling infrastructure? Are we also to use Chinese iron, steel
and cement because they, with their Third World wages, will work
for less than our fellow Americans?

As for Europe’s threat of a trade war, bring it on!

We would eat their lunch. As analyst Charles McMillion writes, in
eight years of Bush, Canada ran up $500 billion in trade surpluses
at our expense, Japan ran up $600 billion, the European Union $800
billion.

These three trading partners, often by imposing value-added taxes
on U.S. imports, and rebating those taxes on goods sold here,
racked up $1.9 trillion in trade surpluses, sucking jobs, factories
and technology out of the United States. These trade deficits, and
the even larger ones with China, says Paul Volcker, are behind our
present crisis.

America is bust. It is shameful to have to go to China and Japan to
borrow the money to rebuild America. But to go to China and Japan
and borrow billions, and not spend the money here, makes zero sense.

We have indulged in free trade for a quarter century. And look
where it has gotten us.


Until the American people demand that their elected members of Congress live up to their duties and responsibilities under the Constitution, they will continue to have their pockets picked clean by these corrupt banksters in New York City (and London) and their contemptible facilitators in Washington, D.C.