Reality-BasedTM Political Numbers from Nicholas Beaudrot
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Reality-BasedTM Political Numbers from Nicholas Beaudrot
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[I'm off to Drinking Liberally tonight. Cheers!]
Via the excellent Carpetbagger Report, it appears that Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR) is continuing to make noise about running for president. Now, I'm not some closet Republican, so I'd surely vote against him, but I'm a big fan of Huckabee's willingness to thumb his nose at the Norquistas and their monomaniacal obsession with tax cuts:
It has a little bit of that "he can get his gun and saddle up; we'll meet in front of the saloon at eight. I do my killing before breakfast", doesn't it? Huckabee doesn't limit his trash talking to unelected heads of lobbying groups; he'll even take some shots at legislation produced by the GOP-run congress. Here's Huckabee on the Real ID Act:"Grover's never been in government, doesn't have to balance a state budget, never had a state constitution forcing him to deal with a balanced budget," Mr. Huckabee said at a meeting with editors and reporters from The Washington Times.
"Grover's never been in a situation where he couldn't borrow money so he didn't have to raise taxes or tell old people he's just going to take them out of the nursing home and drop them on the curb," he continued.
"If Grover wants to run for governor, there's an election next year in Arkansas. He can get his residency requirements lined up. And there are 36 other states he can run in next year," the governor offered.
Now, he's more pro-life than you could possibly imagine. And he's not a big fan of "teh gay" [sic]. And he might start abandon all of this balanced budget tough talk when he suddenly discovers that the President has a credit card with a very high limit. But so far, he beats the pants out of the rest of the non-McCain, non-Giuliani field, who, lets face it, can't win a Southern Primary without a miracle."Governors are looking at all their options. If more than half of the governors agree we're not going down without a fight on this, Congress will have to consider changing this unfunded federal mandate," said Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, vice chairman of the National Governors Association. A Huckabee aide said the options include court action.
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updated by Nicholas Beaudrot on 06:43 24 May 2005
