Why I’m NOT an ELECTION DENIER
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Mike Huckabee
Daily Bible Verse
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Matthew 10:16 KJV
1. Pelosi replaced
By Mike Huckabee
As expected, House Democrats elected Rep. Hakeem Jeffries to be Nancy Pelosi’s successor as their new Minority Leader. I’d like to thank them for choosing someone whom Republicans can point to from now on, every time they accuse a Republican of not being fit to hold office because he/she is an “election denier.”
Meanwhile, the race for Speaker is still up in the air, as presumed winner Kevin McCarthy is having trouble getting the more conservative “Freedom Caucus” Republicans to support him. That’s caused a group of more centrist Republicans to suggest that if he doesn’t win, they might work with Democrats to vote in a speaker who would be less conservative than McCarthy.
As much as I sympathize with my fellow conservatives, I would remind them that politics is “the art of the possible.” Standing on principle until you find yourself locked out of power does nothing at all to advance your agenda, and even sets it back. If you don’t have a more conservative alternative to McCarthy who can win, then cut a deal with him to get what you can before you lose all your future leverage.
This isn’t a new concept. Aesop wrote a fable about it 2,500 years ago.
https://fablesofaesop.com/the-dog-and-the-shadow.html
2. Biden giveaway hits legal barrier
By Mike Huckabee
President Biden’s attempted giveaway of over half a trillion dollars of the taxpayers’ money to pay off his voters' student loans just hit another legal barrier. A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously refused to lift a stay on it by a lower court judge who found it unlawful and unconstitutional.
https://www.westernjournal.com/federal-appeals-court-shuts-bidens-big-plan-crushing-ruling/
The Fifth Circuit Court has yet to rule on whether the loan payoff scheme can go forward (the Eighth Circuit has already rejected it), but this isn’t a good sign for Biden. It blocks him from rushing out all the money before the Court can strike it down. It’s widely believed he wanted to follow the popular legal theory known as “It’s better to ask forgiveness than permission,” the same tactic used by unscrupulous developers who knock down historic buildings or animal habitats in the dead of night, then the next day channel George Costanza and say, “Oh, was I not supposed to do that? Well, too late to take it back now!”
I always found it amusing how Democrats can carp all day about the “lawless, authoritarian” Donald Trump, but whenever some liberal activist judge in Podunk put a stay on a Trump order that he clearly had the power to enact, Trump’s people would obey the order, follow the procedure and appeal it. President Joe “Return to Normalcy” Biden instead slanders the judges and tries to find some way to sneak around their rulings.
Sounds as if the Fifth Circuit judges are well aware that they’re dealing with the George Costanza Presidency.
Related: Another thing about George Costanza is that if one crazy scheme to break the rules didn’t work, he could immediately come up with a new one. Like, if he can’t get taxpayers to pay off his loans, just find a way to keep delaying the payment date to infinity, which will still end up costing the taxpayers nearly $300 billion.
3. Bipartisan railroad bill passes House and goes to the Senate
By Mike Huckabee
Wednesday, the House passed a bipartisan bill to force a labor agreement and derail a potential devastating railroad strike. It now goes to the Senate, where big labor Democrats like Bernie Sanders are threatening to block it unless the workers get more concessions.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-poised-pass-bill-avert-looming-rail-strike-rcna59227
This was a rare occasion where President Biden crossed the labor unions and asked Congress to intervene. As you might recall, I told you before the election that the White House was taking bows for “averting” a rail strike when all they’d actually done was kick the problem down the road until sometime after the election. Well, that time is here and they still have no solution, so whether the unions like it or not, Biden turned to the Congress to make them accept an agreement and stay on the job, and they are not happy about it. It’s going to be interesting to see how this turns out over the long haul.