Mike Huckabee took control of the S.S. Arkansas in the summer of 1996. David Sanders has the details on his decade in power (Arkansas News Bureau via Virginia Bloggers Against Mike Huckabee). Of particular note:
In 2001, when conservative Republican lawmakers opposed a higher sales taxes and fees the governor supported, he began calling them “Shiites.” Huckabee’s positions on fiscal policy became indistinguishable from Democrats’ positions. A year later, he openly campaigned against a ballot initiative to remove the sales tax on food and medicine.
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In 2003, Huckabee not only begged lawmakers for new taxes to make up a budget shortfall, but he rebuffed conservatives’ (Republicans and a couple of Democrats) plan to cover the shortfall by tapping one-time money and cutting pork. In 2004, President Bush won re-election, but Huckabee campaigned for some Democrats – even some who had Republican opponents – and Republicans lost state legislative seats for the first time since 1990.
So he fires insults at people who oppose his tax hikes while campaigning for Democrats and against tax-relief.
Wait, didn’t we have eight years of that guy in the White House already?
