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Foreign Policy: Heilemann Horrified By Huck's Lack of Harvard or Princeton Degree
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| Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 05/05/2015 3:58:49 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
For all the good their Ivy League degrees did Barack Obama and Hillary Clintonwhen you consider the smoking ruin that is their foreign policy recordyou'd think John Heilemann would have the good sense not to make an Ancient Eight sheepskin the sine qua non for a presidential candidate.
But with his MSM elitism on full display, on today's With All Due Respect Heilemann had the chutzpah to suggest that Mike Huckabee doesn't clear the Commander-in-Chief bar because he lacks a degree from Harvard's Kennedy School or Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School. Huck has simply picked up some foreign policy talking points from Fox News, huffed Heilemann.
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What a snob, Heilemann! As if Obama or Hillary’s Ivy League degrees did them any good on foreign policy!
Ping to Today show list.
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posted on
05/05/2015 3:59:49 PM PDT
by
governsleastgovernsbest
(FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
ost of the leading Republicans running for president show some support for Bushs 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 states debt services increased by nearly $1 billion. Huckabee financed his spending binge with higher taxes. Under his leadership, the average Arkansans tax burden increased 47 percent, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, including increases in the states 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 governors 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.
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posted on
05/05/2015 4:04:38 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Most of the leading Republicans running for president show some support for Bushs 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 states debt services increased by nearly $1 billion. Huckabee financed his spending binge with higher taxes. Under his leadership, the average Arkansans tax burden increased 47 percent, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, including increases in the states 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 governors 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.
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posted on
05/05/2015 4:04:52 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SoConPubbie
No Hucksterbee
No socialism
No amnesty
Buh bye, Huck.
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posted on
05/05/2015 4:10:21 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: governsleastgovernsbest
What does a degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School or Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School demonstrate — other than a thorough indoctrination into Statist theory.
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posted on
05/05/2015 4:11:13 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Because the country is in such great shape after 26 years of Ivy League educated Presidents.
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posted on
05/05/2015 4:15:09 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Oh, yeah. A voluntary internal aWe may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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.
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posted on
05/05/2015 4:52:11 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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”.
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posted on
05/05/2015 4:56:56 PM PDT
by
5th MEB
(Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
To: 5th MEB
I thought we were talking about "Huck" on
Scandal
You don't need higher degrees in his line of work.
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posted on
05/05/2015 5:00:32 PM PDT
by
x
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
05/05/2015 5:04:41 PM PDT
by
Chgogal
(Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
To: Chgogal
There should be quotes in front of “had” and after “kind”. Sorry.
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posted on
05/05/2015 5:05:44 PM PDT
by
Chgogal
(Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
These elitists are just bullies. Wait until they unload again against Scott Walker.
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posted on
05/05/2015 5:16:15 PM PDT
by
Gumdrop
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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.).
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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.
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posted on
05/05/2015 9:45:45 PM PDT
by
BobL
(REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my home page))
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