Posted on 04/17/2015 9:46:22 AM PDT by don-o
As he gears up for another presidential campaign, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is making a big break with the Republican party on the issue of entitlement reform. Meeting with reporters at a hotel in Washington, D.C. this morning, Huckabee strongly criticized New Jersey governor Chris Christie's proposal to reform Social Security and said he would not sign Paul Ryan's Medicare reform into law if he were president.
"I don't know why Republicans want to insult Americans by pretending they don't understand what their Social Security program and Medicare program is," Huckabee said in response to a question about Christie's proposal to gradually raise the retirement age and implement a means test.
Huckabee said his response to such proposals is "not just no, it's you-know-what no."
"I'm not being just specifically critical of Christie but that's not a reform," he said. "That's not some kind of proposal that Republicans need to embrace because what we are really embracing at that point is we are embracing a government that lied to its people--that took money from its people under one pretense and then took it away at the time when they started wanting to actually get what they have paid for all these years."
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Huckabee's comments marked a significant departure from his own previous position on Medicare reform.
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Yep!
Fortunately for all of us I'm pretty sure Huckabee will be spared that dilemma.
At least, Huck is right in putting up this warning. There are Repub “candidates” that would SAY AND DO ANYTHING to better their position in the race. I would not trust this kind of “candidate” and favor the ones who have made their postion CLEAR and STICK TO IT. We keep hoping.
Me too but he’s right about Christies idiotic proposal.
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And there is much of the problem with Huckabee. I don't want a guy who waffles. Pick a position and go with it.
But I don't see Huckabee being consistent on anything.
You mean like Scott Walker’s recent epiphany that we should uphold the rule of law?
At least Jim & Tammy Baker finally admitted what game they were playing . . .
They gave me the same creeps that Hucka does.
So, Mr. Huckabee is a Franklin D. Roosevelt New Deal Democrat and a supporter of Lyndon B. Johnson Great Society.
Of course, so is every other prospective Republican candidate.
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
- James Madison, the father of the U.S. Constitution
HuckaLiar is Tammy Faye Baker without the hair.
I agree,
Tell the TRUTH about what you believe and let the voters decide if they want you!
If they lie about what they really believe, they only hurt themselves and the movement in the end. Because they are unable to aggressively defend a stance that they dont truly believe in themselves.
Huckabee is a coward on the issues, not just this one, in my opinion. Christie's proposal might not be good, but at least he's willing to put it out there. Same with Paul Ryan.
By the way, the government has changed things. They just increased insurance fees for "high income" seniors.
All of these programs are being slowly converted from quasi-insurance programs to means tested welfare. All of them are taking more and more tax dollars, too. Which means less of everything else.
“...If they lie about what they really believe, they only hurt themselves and the movement in the end...”
Deja Vu Obama, et al. From before day one...and the beat goes on. Thank You Congress.
The weight loss sure didn’t stick.
He does me too.
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