Fred Apologizes for the exposing the real Mike Huckabee

Fred Thompson apologizes for exposing the real Mike Huckabee.

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Huckabee lied about theology degree

Mike Huckabee claimed to CBN,

"I'm as strong on terror as anybody. In fact I think I'm stronger than most
people because I truly understand the nature of the war that we are in with
Islamofascism. These are people that want to kill us. It's a theocratic war. And
I don't know if anybody fully understands that. I'm the only guy on that stage
with a theology degree. I think I understand it really well."

The problem with that is Huckabee lied. He does not have a theology degree. To make things worse he gave this answer to it being pointed out,

I have a bachelor of arts in religion and a minor in communications in my
undergraduate work. And then I have 46 hours on a master's degree at
Southwestern Theology Seminary. So, my degree as a theological degree is at the
college level and then 46 hours toward a masters -- three years of study of New
Testament Greek, and then the rest of it, all in Seminary was theological
studies, but my degree was actually in religion."

Huckabee has now lied about his Education, Immigration, and Tax Policy what other lies does he not want us to know about.

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Huckabee will not be happy to see some old friends

The AP is running a fun story that talks about how Ron Paul is bringing some Arkansas Republicans up to Iowa to talk about how Mike Huckabee's record is not what he wants people to believe.

"We just want to make sure Iowans get the full picture of what Governor Huckabee
did when he was in office," said Paul's campaign spokesman, Jesse Benton. "There
hasn't been a whole lot of information going out to Iowans and we want to make
sure they get the full picture."

Holt, who ran unsuccessfully for Arkansas lieutenant governor last year,
has tangled publicly with Huckabee over immigration. Huckabee, a Southern
Baptist preacher, spoke out against Holt's proposal in 2005 to ban state
services to illegal immigrants and said "I drink a different kind of Jesus
juice."

Once people get the full picture I do not think they will be able to vote for Gov. Huckabee. He is weak on Immigration, increased taxes in Arkansas, and was weak on crime.

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Al Gore in favor of undermining American Sovernity

Al Gore has been attacking the US at the bali summit all week. Now it has become clear what the summit is all about,

A global tax on carbon dioxide emissions was urged to help save the Earth from
catastrophic man-made global warming at the United Nations climate
conference. A panel of UN participants on Thursday urged the adoption of a
tax that would represent “a global burden sharing system, fair, with solidarity,
and legally binding to all nations.”

So, Al Gore is in favor of underming US sovernity in favor of Global Socialism, thanks for showing back up Al.

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House Democrats not intrested in preventing Terrorist attacks

From the Washington Post,

The White House vowed to veto the measure. Limiting the CIA to interrogation
techniques authorized by the Army Field Manual "would prevent the United States
from conducting lawful interrogations of senior al Qaeda terrorists toobtain intelligence needed to protect Americans from attack," the Office of Management and Budget said in a statement.

The House Democrats are so worried about treating the Al Queda members so well that they do not care how many American lives they cost. You cannot play by the rules when your opponent does not follow them. It is time we asked House Democrats to Protect Americans first and pander later.

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Democrats turn on each other

The Washington Post is running this article,

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) accuses Senate Democratic leaders of
developing "Stockholm syndrome," showing sympathy to their Republican captors
by caving in on legislation to provide middle-class tax cuts paid for with tax
increases on the super-rich, tying war funding to troop withdrawal timelines,
and mandating renewable energy quotas. If Republicans want to filibuster a bill,
Rangel said, Reid should keep the bill on the Senate floor and force the
Republicans to talk it to death.
Reid, in turn, has taken to the Senate floor
to criticize what he called the speaker's "iron hand" style of
governance.
Democrats in each chamber are now blaming their colleagues in the
other for the mess in which they find themselves. The predicament caused the
majority party yesterday surrender to President Bush on domestic spending levels, drop a cherished
renewable-energy mandate and move toward leaving a raft of high-profile
legislation, from addressing the mortgage crisis to providing middle-class tax
relief, undone or incomplete.

Democrats are apparently having problems making the trasition from throwing to stones to having to lead. The problem is the House Democrats have not realized that Americans do not support their far-left agenda. The Senate is acting like it is supposed to. It is cooling the overly ambitious House. Instead of compromising the House is throwing a fit. That would explain why the approval rating of Congress is now far behind that of the President.

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Al Gore says United States to blame for preventing International policy capping greehouse gases, Good for the United States

The AP has this,

The former vice president urged delegates to take urgent action to reduce
emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, and told them that the
next U.S. president will likely be more supportive of international caps on
polluting gases.
"My own country, the United States, is principally
responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali," said Gore, who flew to Bali
from Oslo, Norway, where he received the Nobel Peace Prize for helping alert the
world to the danger of climate change.

Lets hope he is wrong and the next President resists this socialist policies. The United States should blick such policies because the United States is different we believe in Freedom. Lets vote for Freedom!!

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Fred Thompson stands up against watered down debates

Fred Thompson stood up to the silliness of the current debates. He refused to raise his hand to a two part complicated question. He has consistently wanted to talk about real issues from entitlements to immigration. He has shown that he is the clear serious choice. The media does not like him because he does not give thirty second soundbites. We should want a President who can lead not gloss over issues to give a good soundbite.

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Far Left Fringe Alert: Code Pink attacks the Democrats too, now

From the Washington Times,

The mostly female group — famous for disrupting congressional hearings and its
demonstrators clad in pink T-shirts and tiaras — has applied for a new tax
status that permits political work for its campaigns against Democrats as well
as Republicans, Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin said.
"We felt betrayed
by the very people we helped to put into office," Ms. Benjamin told editors and
reporters at The Washington Times. "We have a particular break with the
leadership of the Democratic Party."

No, they have a break with the American People. The fact remains the anti-america left wing fringe groups want us to lose no matter what the cost is. The fact is troops can not be pulled tommarow without destablizing Iraq. They are not different than the anti-war groups in the late 60's that went as far as to carry Vietcong flags. They are a small group, the "silent majority" of Americans want America to remain strong and finish the job. This is why congress will not change the policy. Later in the story this quote sticks out

"We are disgusted with all of them," Ms. Benjamin said of the Democrat-led
Congress. "We were in Congress today saying, 'Close Gitmo,' and I changed my
sign to say, 'Close Congress.' "

It is amazing that Ms. Benjamin does not get the America Poltical system. Congress is doing its job preventing a small fraction from endagering the country. I hope Code Pink does try to take on the democrats and the Democratic Party shows them just how much of a fringe group they really are.

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The Pope condemns Climate Change "Prophets," yes that includes you Al Gore

Pope Benedict XVI has weighed in on Climate Change. With a prudent comment about the current crop of climate change chicken littles. He seems to understand what I have said before this has nothing to do with climate change, but is instead about a social movement that has been unsucessful for almost twenty years. It is much easier to force change when you have fear on your side. From the article,

Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change prophets
of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming must be based on firm
evidence and not on dubious ideology.
"Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of
tomorrow," he said in the message entitled "The Human Family, A Community of
Peace".
"It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried out
prudently, in dialogue with experts and people of wisdom, uninhibited by
ideological pressure to draw hasty conclusions, and above all with the aim of
reaching agreement on a model of sustainable development capable of ensuring the
well-being of all while respecting environmental balances.

This comes after Cardinal George Pell got climate change activists enraged after asking why the tempature on Mars increased,

In October, the Australian Cardinal George Pell, the Archbishop of Sydney,
caused an outcry when he noted that the atmospheric temperature of Mars had
risen by 0.5 degrees celsius.
"The industrial-military complex up on Mars
can't be blamed for that," he said in a criticism of Australian scientists who
had claimed that carbon emissions would force temperatures on earth to rise by
almost five degrees by 2070 unless drastic solutions were enforced.

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Huckabee a soft target says dems

According to Drudgereport.com

Democrat party officials are avoiding any and all criticism of Republican
presidential contender Mike Huckabee, insiders reveal. The Democratic National
Committee has told staffers to hold all fire, until he secures the party's
nomination. The directive has come down from the highest levels within the
party, according to a top source. Within the DNC, Huckabee is known as the
"glass jaw -- and they're just waiting to break it." In the last three weeks
since Huckabee's surge kicked in, the DNC hasn't released a single press release
criticizing his rising candidacy. The last DNC press release critical of
Huckabee appeared back on March 2nd. [DNC Press Release Attack Summary: Governor
Mitt Romney (R-MA) – 37% (99 press releases) Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-NY) – 28%
(74) Senator John McCain (R-AZ) – 24% (64) Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) – 8%
(20) Governor Mike Huckabee – 2% (4)] In fact, as the story broke over the
weekend that Huckabee said he wanted to isolate AIDS patients back in 1992, the
DNC ignored the opportunity to slam the candidate from the left. "He'll easily
be their McGovern, an easy kill," mocked one senior Democrat operative Tuesday
morning from Washington. "His letting out murderers because they shout 'Jesus',
his wanting to put 300,000 AIDS patients and Magic Johnson into isolation, ain't
even scratching the surface of what we've got on him."The discipline the
Democrats have shown in not engaging Huckabee has earned the praise of one
former Republican Party official: "The Democrats are doing a much better job
restraining themselves than the GOP did in 2003 when Howard Dean looked like he
was on the brink of winning the nomination."A close friend to Huckabee explains:
"Look, Mike is Hillary Clinton's worst nightmare. They should be
squirming."

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Here is what is wrong with the Primary System

Ben Smith's Blog has some info today that really shows what is wrong with the current primary system.

Another reason to resent the early states.

Social scientists do
the math and conclude:
The voting weights implied by the estimated model
demonstrate that early voters have up to 20 times the influence of late voters
in the selection of candidates, demonstrating a significant departure from the
ideal of "one person, one vote."

Ya think?

Wonky summary
from Elisabeth Jacobs:
The model focuses on the role of “momentum” and
“social learning,” intuitive concepts suggesting that agents (aka voters) chose
actions sequentially, and are uncertain about the correct action, which depends
on the state of the world. People therefore try to learn the “correct” action
from the behavior of others. Moveover, if people are sufficiently unsure of the
true state of the world, they may actually ignore their own preferences and
simply follow the actions of others.

The current system makes Iowa and New Hampshire more important than the rest of the country. The problem with this is that those states are not reflective of America as a whole. These states should also never have become the first states every election cycle. I have advocated a new system that would combine small state and large states into blocks that would rotate placement in each election cycle. I believe that is the only true way to spread the power of early primaries around. It should not continue to be left to Iowa and New Hampshire to determine who can become the President of the United States.

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Its on: Enviromentalists aganist Enviromentalists

The showdown over alternative energy has taken a new dynamic. Now the Enviromentalist are going to fight each other. The Austin America Statesman reports that a group of Enviromental groups are bringing a federal lawsuit to stop a Wind Farm.

The famed King Ranch and a coalition of environmental groups sued Texas
Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson in federal court Tuesday, seeking to require
extensive environmental review and public comment on two planned wind power
projects along the Gulf Coast in Kenedy County.
The federal suit, filed in U.S. Western District Court in Austin, said the
turbines could kill untold numbers of migratory birds and damage the bay. It
seeks to overturn the decision by the Texas General Land office, which Patterson
heads, to allow the projects to be built without environmental review or input
from the public. The suit contends that the Federal Coastal Zone Management Act
of 1972 and the Texas Coastal Management Program require a permit process for
any energy generation facility on the coast, including wind farms.

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Fred is Right again: Keep government out of food choice

Fred is right again with his small government and personal liberty message. CNN's Political Ticker carries the story

Fred Thompson wants the government to keep its hands off your dinner
plate.That's what he told a questioner Tuesday in South Carolina,
anyway.
Standing about 15 feet away from a mouth-watering steam tray buffet
loaded with fried chicken, creamed corn and macaroni and cheese at Wade's
Southern Cooking in Spartanburg, Thompson dismissed the idea that preventative
care and wellness education should be central features of a government's health
care system.
"I'm telling you, I don’t think that it’s the primary
responsibility of the federal government to tell you what to eat," Thompson said
to applause when asked if his health care plan included any details on
preventative care, a priority for Democratic candidates.
"The fact of the
matter is we got an awful lot of knowledge,” said the former Tennesse senator.
“Sometimes we don’t have a whole lot of will power, and I don’t know of any
government program that's going to instill that."
Thompson, ever a fan of
small government, said healthy living should be the responsibilities of families
first.
"We shouldn’t be looking at the federal government in Washington first
and working our way down, it ought to be just the other way around. With that,
or whether you're talking about education, there's some things the federal
government can't do," said Thompson.

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Romney is a little too late to save Immigration issue

A story is running in the Associated Press that Mitt Romney has now fired his landscaping company after Rudy called him out during the YouTube Debate. It would appear to be a little to late in order to save his perception in the immigration debate.

Republican Mitt Romney, ridiculed by rival Rudy Giuliani for employing illegal
immigrants at his "sanctuary mansion," said Tuesday he had fired the landscaper
for his suburban Boston home after learning for a second time about undocumented
workers laboring on the property.
In a statement issued after he concluded
his campaign appearances for the day, Romney said: "After this same issue arose
last year, I gave the company a second chance with very specific conditions.
They were instructed to make sure people working for the company were of legal
status.
"We personally met with the company in order to inform them about
the importance of this matter," he said. "The owner of the company guaranteed
us, in very certain terms, that the company would be in total compliance with
the law going forward."

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Laws were not meant to force social change, So why the new energy bill?

That sound you are hearing could very well be the founders rolling over in their graves. Congress has decided in all their wisdom to implement new MPG requirements for automakers. Who crazy are the new standards well according Mike Spector of the Wall Street Journal,

Consider the Honda Fit, a Japanese-made subcompact hatchback that's one of
the smallest cars sold in America. Its tiny four-cylinder gasoline engine
averages about 31 mpg in government tests for combined city and highway driving
-- not good enough to beat the proposed 35 mpg.

The effect of this legislation will make cars more expensive as it will cost more to develop cars that will get 35 mpg. There will also be fewer choices of alternatives to cars for consumers, as trucks and SUVs will be harder to produce. The effect will be many more small and subcompact cars.

This is just the latest in oppressive government bills that take freedom and choice out of consumers and gives the authority to the nanny state government. If there was a desire for better mileage cars the companies would make them. Look at how the prius has done. Given a choice consumers will drive the market. This is not a job for an overbearing government and just moves us further aware from the founding principles of America. We fought the Revolution for Freedom not just a new oppresive government telling us what we should want.

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Hillary (pot) attacks Obama (Kettle); Does Hillary actually believe her own accusations.

Hillary today Attacked Obama for his ambition to be President. Does she really believe she did not do the same thing herself. There was never any question that Hillary was positioning herslef for a run from the day she got into the White House. Besides how does 4 additional years give you emense credibility when she had no public service before that and Mr. Obama had in fact served in the state legislature before running for the us senate. Here is the quote.

"So you decide which makes more sense: Entrust our country to someone who
is ready on day one ... or to put America in the hands of someone with little
national or international experience, who started running for president the day
he arrived in the U.S. Senate."

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John Edwards Socialized Medicine Ad

John Edwards is running an ad on his view on Socialized Medicine. I have never seen an ad that pandered so much while at the same time advocating for a government seizure. The ad brings up kids as a reason we should advocate our freedom to the Government. The problem with that is kids whose families need help getting insurance already get that help through the State Children's Health Insurance Program. He then says you cannot work with Insurance companies and health care companies so the government must seize their businesses. How can a candidate openly advocate an illegal seizure and a violation of the Constitution without flinching. Where in the enumerated powers of the Congress is Universal Health Care ( for those playing at home it is not there). It is time Americans stood up and asked for more than just pandering from Candidates.

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Mike Huckabee raised more taxes than Bill Clinton as Governor

Mike Huckabee has been able to rise in the polls while claiming to be a true conservative. He had not been given much attention because he was not considered a top-tier cantidate. Now that he has risen in the polls his record is being filled in and it is not what he claims it to be.


The Arkansas Leader is running this ediorial:

Mike Huckabee raised more taxes in 10 years in office than Bill Clinton did in his 12 years.
Clinton tax increases

- Increased the general sales tax from 3 percent to 4 per- cent (Act 63 of special session of 1983)

- Increased sales tax by half of 1 percent and extended the tax to used vehicles (Act 3 of 1991)

- Increased the corporate income tax from 6 to 6.5 percent for corporations with net incomes greater than $100,000 (Act 1052 of 1991)

- Levied a 16 percent tax on snuff (yes, there are a few people who still dip snuff) (Act 628 of 1987)

- Levied a 25-cent tax on each pack of cigarette papers (yes, there are people who still roll their own) (Act 1045 of 1987)

- Increased the cigarette tax from 17.75 cents a pack to 21 cents a pack (Act 399 of 1983)

- Increased the cigarette tax by a penny a pack (Act 1211 of 1991)

- Levied a 2 percent tax on certain tourism items like admission to theme parks (Act 38 of 1989)

- Increased excise taxes on mixed drinks sold for on-premises consumption (not wine or beer) (Act 844 of 1983 and Act 908 of 1989)

- Increased motor fuel taxes by 1 cent a gallon (1979)

- Increased motor fuel taxes by 4 cents a gallon (Act 456 of 1985) (Clinton vetoed the bill but the legislature overrode his veto.)

- Increased the tax on motor fuels by 5 cents a gallon

- Increased motor vehicle registration fees, 1979 (subsequently repealed)
Huckabee tax increases

- Imposed an income tax surcharge of 3 percent on tax liabilities of individuals and domestic and foreign corporations (Act 38, 1st special session of 2003). (It was temporary until revenues improved. The legislature repealed it in 2005.)

- Increased the sales tax by 1/8 of one percent by initiated act (but it was a personal campaign by Huckabee, who campaigned across the state for it and took a celebrated bass boat trip for 4 days down the Arkansas River holding press conferences in each river city to urge passage of the act)

- Increased the sales tax by one-half of 1 percent (Act 1492 of 1999)

- Increased the sales tax by 7/8ths of 1 percent and expand the sales tax to many services previously exempt from the tax (Act 107, 2nd special session of 2003)

- Collected a 2 percent tax on chewing tobacco, cigars, package tobacco, cigarette papers and snuff (Act 434 of 1997)

- Levied an additional excise tax of 7 percent on tobacco (Act 38 of 1st special session of 2003)

- Increased the tax on cigarette and tobacco permits (Act 1337 of 1997)

- Increased the tax on cigarette and tobacco – cigarettes by $1.25 per thousand cigarettes and 2 percent of the manufacturers’ selling price on tobacco products (Act 434 of 1997)

- Increased the tax on cigarettes by 25 cents a pack (Act 38, 1st special session of 2003)

- Levied a 3 percent excise tax on all retail sales of beer (Act 1841 of 2001 and extended by Act 272 of 2003 and Act 2188 of 2005)

- Revived the 4 percent mixed drink tax of 1989 and added a 4 percent tax on private clubs (Act 1274 of 2005)

- Increased the tax on gasoline by 3 cents a gallon (Act 1028 of 1999)

- Increased the tax on diesel by 4 cents a gallon (Act 1028 of 1999) Note: Contrary to what Huckabee has said repeatedly in debates, speeches and TV shows, the 1999 gasoline and diesel taxes were not submitted to the voters and approved by 80 per cent of them. It was never submitted to a vote. It was the governor’s bill and it became law without a vote of the people. What the voters did approve in 1999 was a bond issue for interstate highway reconstruction but it did not involve a tax increase. Existing taxes and federal receipts were pledged to retire the bonds.

- Increased the driver’s license by $6 a person, from $14 to $20 (Act 1500 of 2001)
So which raised taxes more? It is hard to quantify. If you measured the increases in the revenue stream, the Huckabee tax cuts far exceeded Clinton’s but that would be unfair because the economy had grown and the same penny of tax would produce far more under Huckabee.

But if you look at the major taxes, I see the aggregate Huckabee taxes as greater, especially if you deduct the 4 cent gasoline and diesel taxes that Clinton vetoed in 1985 and that the legislature enacted over his veto.

Anyway, the sales tax is the big revenue producer. Both raised it by 1.5 cents on the dollar and both expanded it to cover a myriad of services. Clinton raised motor fuel taxes a little more, Huckabee cigarette taxes a lot more.

A further note: Huckabee claims credit for a major tax cut in 1997, saying it was the first tax cut in Arkansas history (there had been many prior to that) and that he forced the Democratic legislature to curtail its impulse to always raise taxes.

The facts: The omnibus income tax cut bill of 1997 was proposed by Gov. Jim Guy Tucker in the spring of 1996. It had multiple (7) features, all aimed at relief for middle-class families or the elderly. He asked interim legislative committees to expand on his plan. Tucker then resigned before the legislature convened after his conviction on Whitewater-related charges, and Huckabee took office.

At the legislative session that followed, the Democratic caucus of the House (88 of the 100 members) made the Tucker tax cuts its chief program. The bill was introduced with 83 sponsors (all Democrats) and all Democrats voted for it. It was unopposed. Huckabee’s tax cut was to give each taxpayer a check for $25 each fall, saying it would help offset the burden of sales taxes on groceries (the repeal of which he repeatedly opposed). The legislature rejected Huckabee’s plan and passed the Tucker bill. Huckabee signed it into law.

The 94 tax cuts that he said he fathered are similarly misleading. The vast majority of those were the usual exemptions and modifications of various taxes and fees that the legislature enacts every time it meets. They were not a part of Huckabee’s program with a few exceptions. Rather, Democratic legislators sponsored them, usually at the behest of whatever special interest benefited, and Huckabee signed them when they hit his desk. If you did a similar summary of Clinton’s years he could claim probably well over 100 tax cuts. Every Arkansas governor since World War II could claim dozens each.

If you counted all the tax benefits extended to corporations under the incentives enacted by the legislature under Clinton — and they were part of his programs, especially in 1983, 1985 and 1989 — the tax cuts would dwarf those under Huckabee.

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Mitt, Huckabee, and Rudy in their own words

Here is the full version of the ad Fred Thompson ran at the CNN debate. It is amazing how these three cantidates who claim to be conservative are anything but that.

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