By Mike Huckabee
March 3, 2021
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Good evening! Today's Evening Edition includes:
- Daily Bible Verse
- RIP Vernon Jordan
- Border Security
- Tanden Withdraws Her Nomination
- Deployed In Washington
- 100% In Texas
- America The Beautiful
Sincerely,
Mike Huckabee
BIBLE VERSE OF THE DAY
RIP Vernon Jordan
By Mike Huckabee
Civil rights leader and powerful Washington attorney and political adviser Vernon Jordan died in his sleep Monday at 85.
Jordan began his civil rights activism by suing the University of Georgia to end segregation in 1961. He worked on a number of other civil rights issues, becoming the head of the National Urban League, an executive board member of the United Negro College Fund, and a top adviser to Presidents, including Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
Among the many tributes pouring in was one from Republican former Secretary of State and the Treasury James Baker, who called Jordan a good friend. He said the two were political opponents, but they were not enemies. Let’s hope that concept is something that doesn’t die along with Americans of Jordan’s generation.
Border Security
By Mike Huckabee
According to the Biden Administration, there’s no “crisis” at the border just because their rollback of Trump’s successful border security policies has sparked a massive influx of illegal immigration, including thousands of unaccompanied minors.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas insisted this is not a “crisis,” it’s just a “challenge.” He said, "We are challenged at the border. The men and women of the Department of Homeland Security are meeting that challenge."
I think some people are intellectually challenged and definitely truth challenged. They live in their own little world where the climate is a “crisis,” and the fact that some people make more money than others is a “crisis,” but mass illegal immigration that brings in crime, drugs and disease and undermines the jobs and wages of Americans? That’s not a “crisis!” It’s just a fly in the ointment!
Tanden Withdraws Her Nomination
By Mike Huckabee
Here’s some hopeful evidence that not even having the House, the White House and a 50-50 Senate can get the Democrats everything they want: last night, Neera Tanden withdrew her nomination as President Biden’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget. She becomes his first pick to fail to make it past Senate confirmation.
It would be great to be able to say this shows that the Senate won’t accept someone who has no qualifications for a particular job on purely partisan grounds, but that wasn’t the reason for her being unable to muster enough support. Tanden was a vicious partisan with a long record of sending nasty, juvenile Tweets about both Republicans and Democrats who displeased her. Since she was part of Hillary Clinton’s camp, that included Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose vote she needed for confirmation, and she definitely wasn't getting it.
It’s ironic that her downfall came because of two things that her own side has weaponized: canceling people because of their old social media posts, and claiming that sending “mean tweets” is reason enough to keep someone out of office.
Deployed In Washington
By Mike Huckabee
As thousands of National Guard troops remain deployed in Washington, DC, on Democrat orders for no apparent reason (oh wait: they have to hold back the invisible army of imaginary Trump-voting “insurrectionists”), they are starting to complain about their treatment. Members of the Michigan National Guard say that 50 members have been treated for gastrointestinal complaints after being served undercooked, contaminated meals.
They’re so distrustful of the food being given them that some troops are buying food out of their own pockets to avoid eating it. Some Guard members say the food is so bad that half the meals they’re given are going straight into the trash.
Nothing says you respect the troops like making them camp out in freezing weather for no reason while feeding them garbage, just as nothing says you’re doing the will of the people like surrounding yourself with troops and razor wire while trying to take away the people’s guns and freedom of speech.
Nearly 6,000 troops are expected to stay in DC until at least mid-March, allegedly because of some Internet chatter about a QAnon conspiracy theory that Trump will be reinstated as President on March 4th.
That’s tomorrow. Once that date passes (and I’m betting it will pass without any incident), how about ending this political theater and letting them go home?
100% In Texas
By Mike Huckabee
Tuesday, appropriately enough on Texas Independence Day, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a proclamation that he was ending the state facemask mandate and declaring that all Texas businesses could now operate at 100 percent capacity again.
But Abbott said this does not end personal responsibility, as he urged Texans to continue “personal vigilance” to avoid COVID-19 (my writer/researchers Pat and Laura, who live near Dallas, say that everyone they see is still wearing masks and following safety guidelines.)
This makes Texas the 13th state to not enforce a mask mandate. I’ll let you know when we find the first blue state to voice any mention of, or confidence in, personal responsibility.
A Reader Writes Back...
Just wanted to mention that I open & learn something with every newsletter. Thanks!
America The Beautiful
God's creation is all around us. To learn more about Death Valley National Park, visit its website here.
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