By Mike Huckabee
January 7, 2023
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BY MIKE HUCKABEE
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Mike
DAILY BIBLE VERSE
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Galatians 6:9 KJV
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By Mike Huckabee
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2. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy
By Mike Huckabee
Last night, after Kevin McCarthy fell short again on the 14th vote for Speaker, it was starting to look as if this would drag on to Monday. But a deal was reached for a 15th vote in which the six holdouts switched their votes to “Present,” which lowered the threshold McCarthy needed to win, and he secured the Speakership with 216 votes.
It got so tense that at one point, there were reports that Rep. Mike Rogers had to be restrained from lunging at diehard holdout Matt Gaetz, but frankly, he doesn’t look to me like he had any violent intent. I’d think that if anyone would’ve wanted to lunge at Matt Gaetz, it would’ve been the poor woman whose job was to keep taking and reading out the votes over and over and over. I was also going to demand free government Pepto-Bismol if I had to sit through another Democrat nomination speech for Hakeem Jeffries, lauding the Democrats for doing so much for America by passing giant spending bills that bloated government, crushed freedom, supercharged inflation and saddled our grandkids with even more unsustainable debt (they didn’t put it that way, of course, but I translated it into reality.)
This link has a list of the concessions McCarthy agreed to, including a single member being able to call a vote to fire the Speaker.
At this link, K.T. McFarlane explains how the concessions made to conservatives won’t weaken McCarthy, they’ll actually give him cover to stand up to Mitch McConnell when he's pressured to compromise with Democrats. He can say he has to answer to the people on the right who can remove him if he becomes a squishy big spender.
Anyway, now that this is finally over, maybe the new GOP Congress can get down to work, and they have a mountain of it that’s piled up over two years of Democrat rule, like manure at an unattended pig farm. I thought McCarthy’s acceptance speech struck the right tone, and I hope it mollified some of his critics. He made it clear that he intends to keep the Republicans’ “Commitment to America.”
I also enjoyed the warning he offered to Hakeem Jeffries, who had basked in a weeks’ worth of effusive praise and unanimous votes. McCarthy reminded him that “I also won 100 percent of my conference vote on this floor two years ago. So, good luck!"
3. A Tale of Two Narratives: Can you guess which one is true?
By Mike Huckabee
1. Liberal media outlets: Kevin McCarthy’s multiple losses before becoming House Speaker were an embarrassment and crushing humiliation for Donald Trump, proving that his endorsement no longer carries any weight with Republicans.
2. Breitbart.com: Trump played a crucial behind-the-scenes role in McCarthy’s victory, working the phones and calling Republican House members to keep McCarthy supporters united while persuading the holdouts to relent.
Here’s a hint: There’s actual verification from the people involved in narrative #2.
4. Virtually Nobody cares
By Mike Huckabee
You might wonder how yesterday could have passed without me remarking on it being January 6th, the anniversary of something that we all now know was a worse blow to America than Pearl Harbor, the Civil War and 9/11 combined. Well, I somehow missed that because, outside of Democrat political and media circles, virtually NOBODY cares.
I still have many questions about the January 6th riot, which months of political theater by Pelosi’s Kangaroo Kommittee failed to bring up. Let’s hope the new GOP Congress actually looks into them. Questions like:
“Who was responsible for ensuring there was adequate security that day? Why did both Pelosi and the Mayor of DC reject President Trump’s offer of troops to keep the peace? If the FBI had prior knowledge that some people planned to attack the Capitol, why did they not prevent it? What, if any, role did the FBI play in instigating it? Who decided to open the Capitol doors? Why is the DOJ relentlessly hounding people who just stepped through an open door of a public building and took a selfie while doing nothing about actual acts of terrorism committed by leftist and pro-abortion groups? Why are American citizens being held in deplorable conditions for months on end without charges? If this was an ‘insurrection,’ why has nobody been charged with insurrection? And why has there not been an investigation and prosecution of the Capitol cop who shot and killed unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt with zero justification?” And there are many more.
So yes, I do have some interest in January 6th. But my interest is in getting to the truth at long last, not in continuing to let people demagogue and lie about it for political gain. So pardon me if I skipped all the “commemorations” that were just more attempts to convince us that January 6th, 2021, was the darkest day in the history of America. Even President Biden must be having a hard time remembering that, since he referred to it as “July 6th.” I am not joking.
That article mentions that Biden was also among many Democrats who repeated the lie that Officer Brian Sicknick died fighting the “insurrectionists.” He actually died the next day of a stroke that the coroner ruled was due to natural causes. The Democrats have stretched this false narrative so far that some now claim FIVE officers died “protecting our democracy” from an “armed mob.” First of all, nobody was armed. And to get to that number, they have to include officers who died up to six months after January 6th, due to everything from stroke to suicide. I’m surprised they aren’t counting all the COVID deaths in DC, too. Give them time.
https://instapundit.com/
Finally, add to my list of questions this one from Newsmax producer Alex Lorusso: “If January 6th was really the worst thing since 9/11, why do you feel the need to lie about it?”
5. Speaking of Ashli Babbitt
By Mike Huckabee
US Capitol Police arrested her mother Micki Witthoeft with other protesters on the January 6th anniversary, as they protested for long-delayed justice for the killing of her daughter. They are charged with a traffic violation for blocking the street and not having a permit to protest, as if they would have gotten one considering what they were calling attention to.
https://www.foxnews.com/
I’d like to point out that California is doing away with jaywalking laws because it’s racist to cite black people for being in the street and blocking traffic. Also, our DOJ refuses to prosecute leftist protesters who illegally gather outside Supreme Court Justices’ private homes in an attempt to intimidate them into changing their rulings, or those who gather on streets outside pro-life pregnancy centers to paint threats on the walls and commit arson.
On the plus side, at least they didn’t shoot her mother dead and declare that that was “lawful and within Department policies.”
Ashli’s widowed husband notes that her mother has been protesting there for a long time, and the fact that she just coincidentally was arrested on January 6th “doesn’t smell right.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/
6. Fair and Balanced
By Mike Huckabee
If you do want to read something about January 6th, I suggest this article by Presidential historian and author Constantinos E. Scaros. He’s critical of President Trump’s actions relating to the 2020 election and January 6th. But his analysis of Pelosi's Kangaroo Kommittee is virtually identical to mine. He explains clearly and dispassionately why the Kommittee was unfairly and illegitimately formed, why its four suggested criminal counts against Trump are legally groundless, and why its final report is “845 pages of nothing.”
https://www.westernjournal.
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