Are the GOP just nuts or what?
Huckabee: Stimulus is ‘anti-religious’
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee warned supporters Tuesday that the $828 billion stimulus package is “anti-religious.”
In an e-mail that was also posted on his blog ahead of the Senate’s passage, Huckabee wrote: “The dust is settling on the ‘bipartisan’ stimulus bill and one thing is clear: It is anti-religious.”
The former Republican presidential candidate pointed to a provision in both the House and Senate versions banning higher education funds in the bill from being used on a “school or department of divinity.”
“You would think the ACLU drafted this bill,” Huckabee said. “For all of the talk about bipartisanship, this Congress is blatantly liberal.” </em>
And ya know why, skippy? Because what passes for liberal in this country WON THE DAMN ELECTION YOU JACKASS. Now what does the Arkansas demagogue got his Wal Mart whiteys in a bunch about? The provision in the bill that prohibits government funding for renovation of structures used for religious intent:
“It’s almost a restatement of what the Constitution requires so there’s nothing novel in what the House did in its restriction,” said Christopher Anders, senior legislative counsel to the ACLU. “For 37 years, the law of the land is that the government can’t pay for buildings that are used for religious purposes.”
And to this point about “bipartisanship”. Obama is frankly spending far too much time, and political capital, attempting to build a bridge to people who despise him, who feel government doesn’t work- except to funnel money to their supporters- and who, in the last eight years, ran everything with an iron fist and without giving a shit what the Democrats- or anybody else thought. And they ran the country straight into the ground.
You lost the election. You lost in governing. You gained Palin, Joe the Plumber, Godfather Rush, Bling Bling Steele, and religious loonies like Huckanut. The sooner everyone stops paying any attention to you whatsoever, the better.