Foreign Policy: Heilemann Horrified By Huck's Lack of Harvard or Princeton Degree

What a snob, Heilemann! As if Obama or Hillary’s Ivy League degrees did them any good on foreign policy!

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ost of the leading Republicans running for president show some support for Bush’s ideology, but no other candidate so completely embodies it.

As governor of Arkansas, Huckabee dramatically increased state spending. During his two-term tenure, spending increased by more than 65 percent — at three times the rate of inflation.

The number of government workers increased by 20 percent, and the state’s debt services increased by nearly $1 billion. Huckabee financed his spending binge with higher taxes. Under his leadership, the average Arkansan’s tax burden increased 47 percent, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, including increases in the state’s gas, sales, income, and cigarette taxes. He raised taxes on everything from groceries to nursing home beds.

Huckabee answers these complaints by pointing out that he “cut taxes 94 times” while governor. True. But most of those tax cuts were tiny, like exempting residential lawn care from the sales tax. Some cuts reduced overall state revenues by as little as $15,000. On net, Huckabee increased state taxes by more than $500 million. In fact, Huckabee increased taxes in the state by more than Bill Clinton did.

“ He truly appears to believe that if something is a good idea it should be a federal government program.”

On its annual governor’s report card, Cato gave Huckabee an “F” for fiscal policy during his final term, and an overall two-term grade of “D.” Only four governors had worse scores, and 15 Democratic governors got higher grades, including well-known liberals like Ted Kulongoski of Oregon, Rod Blagojevich of Illinois, and Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania.

Most of the leading Republicans running for president show some support for Bush’s ideology, but no other candidate so completely embodies it.

As governor of Arkansas, Huckabee dramatically increased state spending. During his two-term tenure, spending increased by more than 65 percent — at three times the rate of inflation.

The number of government workers increased by 20 percent, and the state’s debt services increased by nearly $1 billion. Huckabee financed his spending binge with higher taxes. Under his leadership, the average Arkansan’s tax burden increased 47 percent, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, including increases in the state’s gas, sales, income, and cigarette taxes. He raised taxes on everything from groceries to nursing home beds.

Huckabee answers these complaints by pointing out that he “cut taxes 94 times” while governor. True. But most of those tax cuts were tiny, like exempting residential lawn care from the sales tax. Some cuts reduced overall state revenues by as little as $15,000. On net, Huckabee increased state taxes by more than $500 million. In fact, Huckabee increased taxes in the state by more than Bill Clinton did.

“ He truly appears to believe that if something is a good idea it should be a federal government program.”

On its annual governor’s report card, Cato gave Huckabee an “F” for fiscal policy during his final term, and an overall two-term grade of “D.” Only four governors had worse scores, and 15 Democratic governors got higher grades, including well-known liberals like Ted Kulongoski of Oregon, Rod Blagojevich of Illinois, and Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania.

No Hucksterbee

No socialism

No amnesty

Buh bye, Huck.

What does a degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School or Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School demonstrate — other than a thorough indoctrination into Statist theory.

Because the country is in such great shape after 26 years of Ivy League educated Presidents.

Who cares?
Huck (again) has about as much a chance as Deb Wasserman-Schultz winning `73 Homecoming Queen.
He’s the biggest political zombie since Harold Stassen.

Damn; I thought we were talking about Huckleberry Finn.
He would have made a better president than any dem/prog/lib/ communist that the dems could possibly put forward.
Da hairball say “go wit Huck, go wit Huck”.

I thought we were talking about "Huck" on Scandal

You don't need higher degrees in his line of work.

Uh, President Lincoln had only about a year of formal schooling of any kind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_by_education

There should be quotes in front of “had” and after “kind”. Sorry.

These elitists are just bullies. Wait until they unload again against Scott Walker.

It’s all really laughable, truly. Bush goes to Yale, but he’s stupid. Reagan doesn’t go to an Ivy, he’s stupid. Gore goes to Vanderbilt and flunks out of Divinity School classes, but he’s brilliant.

The bottom line is that Ivy schools are just some of a whole ton of universities out there, and going to one doesn’t mean you are the smartest or the best. It does mean in many cases that you were clearly more focused on achievement at an early age, and thus had the high school grades and studied hard enough for the SAT to get in. For that, you deserve credit. There are plenty of late starters throughout society that are as smart or smarter than anyone who has a Harvard ring on their finger (or Yale, or Princeton, etc. etc.).

I’m more HORRIFIED by the way that Huckabee was releasing HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of violent felons early when he was governor...DESPITE pleas from victims and law enforcement.

That tells me all that I need to know in order to pass judgment on him.