The Joe Who Stole Christmas
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DAILY BIBLE VERSE
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:6 KJV
Programming note
While my staff and I are on a Christmas break and sending material we’ve prepared in advance, we will also be watching the news for anything that calls for a bulletin, like if the judge in Kari Lake’s lawsuit issues a ruling before next week. In the meantime, please have a safe and wonderful Christmas, take care if you’re in the path of the winter storm, and keep checking your mailbox every day for the Huckabee Newsletter!
And to quote my staffer Laura Ainsworth (who is also an award-winning retro jazz singer) – have yourself a merry little Christmas!
THIS, is a big win for the GOP?!?
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and a handful of fellow Republicans are painting their support of the Democrats’ $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill as a big win for the GOP. Why, I don’t know, other than it includes money for the Pentagon, which hasn’t exactly earned any respect lately, as it spends more time targeting our own troops for lack of wokeness and vaccinations than it does winning wars.
This bloated whale of a bill was dropped on Congress in the middle of the night, and members are being told they have to hurry up and vote on it, and there’s no time to read its 4,000+ (!) pages. But just flipping through, critics have unearthed a number of outrageous outlays, including tens of billions for Ukraine (which might be okay except it gives Biden a blank check with zero oversight of where the money goes); a couple of hundred million for the border patrol, but only for “processing” illegal entrants (i.e., letting more of them in more quickly), and specifically forbidding any of the money to be used for securing the border; millions of dollars for LGBT “Pride Centers” (have I mentioned that we already have a $31.4 trillion national debt?); and an extra $212.1 million for US attorneys "to further support prosecutions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and domestic terrorism cases." I assume that means more prosecutions of selfie-takers, elderly pro-life activists and people who admit to voting for Trump on Facebook.
North Carolina Rep. Dan Bishop uncovered another hidden landmine in the bill: $575 million for “family planning” in areas where population growth “threatens biodiversity.” Translation: using environmentalism as an excuse for taxpayer-funded abortion.
On top of that, it takes away the power of the incoming GOP Congress to control budget decisions through September 2023 when all that’s really needed is a temporary stopgap bill to keep the government funded until the new Congress takes office in January.
Kudos to Sen. Rand Paul for standing up in the Senate and calling this bill what it is: an “abomination” and a “no-good, rotten way to run government.” He pointed out that Congress had nine months to write a spending bill, missed the deadline and put it off another three months, missed that deadline and put it off another week, but now they’re claiming it’s an emergency and must be passed right away without taking time to read it. I thought the voters took the House away from the Dems because they were sick of giant, transformative bills being passed first, and then we find out what’s in them?
The constituents of McConnell and all the other predictable GOP votes to cave to the Dems need to let them know what they think of this craven capitulation to profligate liberal spending and runaway government power.