‘Grow a Spine!’: Mike Huckabee Lashes at GOP for Giving Up Opposition to Gay Marriage

Fox News host Mike Huckabee lashed out at the Republican Party over the weekend for essentially conceding that the issue of same-sex marriage had been decided.

On the Saturday edition of his show following the Supreme Court’s decision not to reverse decisions that struck down same-sex marriage bans in five states, Huckabee accused Republicans of allowing judicial activism.

“I wonder sometimes, do we still teach civics in school?” he asked. “Several governors and other elected officials reacted by saying, ‘Well, that’s it. That’s the final word.’”

“Horse apples!” Huckabee shouted. “The Supreme Court is not the supreme being!”

The former Arkansas governor noted that he held “the same view that President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden held just until two years ago, that it was inconsistent with nature and nature’s law.”

“But the biggest issue is the betrayal of our Constitution and the surrender to a small group of unelected black-robed jurists who can’t make law, nor enforce it,” Huckabee added “Now, if you believe that men should marry men and women should marry women, then get the people’s representatives to vote for it, the chief executive to sign it, and then have the courts agree with it.”

“I’m utterly disgusted with fellow Republicans who want to walk away from the issue of judicial supremacy just because it’s politically volatile,” he concluded. “Here is my advice: Grow a spine, show a modicum of knowledge about the way we govern ourselves, and lead, follow, or get the heck out of the way.”

Watch the video below from Fox News’ Huckabee, broadcast Oct. 11, 2014.

http://mediamatters.org/embed/static/clips/2014/10/12/37148/fnc-huckabee-20141011-marriage

[H/T Raw Story]

Outrageous TV Ad For Desperate Democrats Labels Republicans As Killers

Just about a week ago, former Obama official Van Jones told a national TV audience that Democrats should go after Republicans as the bad guys in the emerging Ebola scare.

On ABC’s “This Week w/ George Stephanopoulos,” Jones said Democrats should point out that the “Ebola thing is the best argument you can make for the kind of government that we believe in.” In other words, huge, far-reaching, money-burning, big-brotherish, centralized government.

And now it appears that a far-left group, The Agenda Project, has taken Van Jones’ advice and produced a TV attack ad that essentially accuses Republican lawmakers of being killers.

Founded by progressive activist Erica Payne, The Agenda Project makes the highly controversial claim that GOP budget cuts undermine the ability of government agencies like the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to keep American safe from Ebola.

The new TV ad is slated to run in Kentucky where Mitch McConnell is locked in a tight battle for the Senate seat he now holds.

One of the claims in the ad is that the CDC’s budget has been cut, which has reduced its disease-fighting resources. However, according to an article earlier this year in the Atlanta Business Chronicle, the agency has actually seen a substantial budget increase.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will see an 8.2 percent budget increase for fiscal 2014, thanks to a $1.1 trillion spending bill announced by Congress Jan. 13.

This influx of cash will raise the CDC budget to $6.9 billion, which is $567 million more than it received in 2013. This is more than the agency anticipated, because the president’s fiscal year 2014 budget request for it was just $6.6 billion — a decrease of $270 million from fiscal 2012.

You can see the new Democrat attack ad for yourself by clicking on the video above.

[H/T Western Journalism]