Letters to the Editor
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To Huck:
When they get sick, the rich and the poor already are treated the same. They each get the healthcare they can pay for. Each pays their own money until they are bankrupt, then the government might step into help, if the patient is still alive. How Christian is that?
And it is the same for education. They each get what they can pay for. End of story.
Thanks. That is so fair and Christian of you.
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Jesus is
SO pre- 9/11.
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Translation
"As it relates in healthcare, that means that we recognize that a person who is sick shouldn't be treated differently, because they're in poverty, than a person who has extraordinary wealth, that we have some sense of balance in how we approach that. That's the essence of what America is about."
If you have money, you can get medical care. This applies equally to everyone, which is exactly how it should be according to Mr. Huckabee. Therefore no policy change is needed.
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Wow
"Treat others as you wish to be treated." and "You've done it to the least of these, my brethren, you've done it unto me. "
Sounds like Huckabee is for single payer healthcare and free post-secondary education, huh?
Maybe he finally realized that Jesus was a communist.
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I'm hard at work
designing a cuckoo clock that has Mike Huckabee pop out every half hour.
The profoundly frightening thing is that this man is in contention to become the President of the United States. Its equally frightening to think he actually was elected and served as a state governor.
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Huh?
That little speech wasn't really even structured in a way an English speaker would understand what was said.
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Huckawhat??
Did he just propose that we go toward socialized medicine???
It's apparent he doesn't care for public education though.
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@vondo
Ha ha! Exactly my thought - OMG, he's a communist! Then I got to the part about charter schools.
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he's doing exactly what Bush did in 2000;
making enough of a pretense of moderation, or at least lack of right wing fanaticism, that enough people in the mushy middle will be persuaded to help him over the magic 50 percent. Obviously this is aimed at the general election, as far as the Rep primary in concerned it's all about turning out the fundie votes, although the better job he does of convincing them that he can pull off the con and win in November the better they will feel about supporting him. (He can also probably count on the help of some lefties who will say "Dems and Reubs. are two sides of the same coin" just like they did in 2000 when they said Bush and Gore were the same and voted for Nader).
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Pandering...
Hey may truly believe his "compassionate Christian conservativism", but I'll tell you, this man is a wolf. A wolf in sheep's clothing. We've heard the mantra of compassion once before, if you recall. One can only hope that he has a meltdown before Iowa, so the voters can see what a truly heinous choice he is to lead this country.
Apparently, as long as you quote a bible verse before some arcane, convoluted, and ultimately non-answer answer to every question in a debate, you'll get the republican nomination.
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So re-assuring
...that Huck is willing to take the hand-off from GW and continue to carry the torch of the compassionate conservative forward.
Which translated means the poor and and middle class will get fukked asap squared - as soon as possible and as much as possible.
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Nothing will change
He'll speak Jesus to get in the door and then leave poor people out in the cold like every republican. "Compassionate Conservatism" was never a real movement, it doesn't even have a definition, it was in 2000 and still is just a catch phrase. He'll get the nomination, rail about the evils of gays wanting equal rights (while insisting he doesn't hate them), talk about how abortions must be stopped and how something should be done for the child after it is born and then do nothing except try and get it outlawed while in office while ignoring the other part, and generally get in the way of science in the classroom just because it doesn't push Jesus on kids. All while cutting taxes for the rich and making the rest of us pick up the tab. In other words, he'll be just another republican.
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Right
As it relates in healthcare, that means that we recognize that a person who is sick shouldn't be treated differently, because they're in poverty, than a person who has extraordinary wealth
Of course we treat the rich and poor the same. To both we say you'll get services if you can pay for them.
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Veddy Clevah
On first read, I thought he was dancing dangerously close to putting Socialized Medicine on the table. Then I re-read it.
This equal treatment thing is simple enough: Every single American, regardless of income or financial stability should be able to walk in to a Doctor's office or hospital, receive the finest treatment available and be handed the exact same bill regardless of their ability to pay.
Surely one's inability to pay such a bill wouldn't act as a deterrent to people seeking medical attention and leading to a national health crisis, right? I mean the current system is flawed because Doctors beat up poor people instead of treating them, right?
Huckabee is a making the noble gesture of changing all that. Taking the armed guards away from the doors of the hospital and ending our long national nightmare.
Same with education. Everyone should have the same opportunity. Whether a WASPy brat out of Greenwich, CT or a struggling minority in East L.A. you should be able to use your family's money to select the private (preferably parochial) school of your choosing and move through the soon-to-be-privatized education system.
Everyone will have the same opportunity. Be charged the same tuition. Have access to the finest facilties, resources, connections and reputations that money can buy.
It's the same old bootstrap pulling rhetoric we've been hearing for ages. The scary thing is this: in some place it was starting to work. There were groundbreaking and innovative programs being initiated here and there. Kids were being taught critical thinking skills. Disadvantaged kids were given outlets for their stronger drive to succeed and better themselves.
Enter NCLB. By attaching funding to the results of these tunnel-vision tests, the Federal Government managed to scare thousands of school districts into a Draconian focus on really quite puny math and reading skills. Innovation has been squelched, and as the downward spiral of poor test results leading to less funding continues, we are only another administration or two away from the dismantling of the public education system, and the fulfillment of the Huckster's dream.
Scary times lay ahead, my friends.