By Mike Huckabee
December 18, 2021
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THE MORNING EDITION By Mike Huckabee
Good morning! Here are some stories from me that I think you will want to read. Topics include:
- Elias admits Dems depend on "aggressive litigation" to win
- New Podcast Episode
- Biden is "Perfect"
- Prayer Tree
- And Much More
Note: The prayer tree section is extra long today. We are working through a flood of requests from this past week and should be caught up by Monday or Tuesday.
DAILY BIBLE VERSE
This verse was recommended by Duane D.
103 Bless the Lord, O my soul;
And all that is within me, bless His holy name!
2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
And forget not all His benefits:
3 Who forgives all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases,
4 Who redeems your life from destruction,
Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,
5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things,
So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
Psalm 103:1-5 NKJV
THE LATEST NEWS
1. Elias admits Dems depend on "aggressive litigation" to win:
On Friday, former Perkins Coie partner and Hillary/DNC attorney Marc Elias tweeted this revealing message:
“Republicans are worse than ever and their attack on democracy continues. For 2022-24, our best hope remains new federal legislation and aggressive litigation.”
Recall that Perkins Coie is the firm that brought us the fake Steele “dossier” in 2016. And now, with these words, Elias shows his hand, revealing once again that the real “attack on democracy” is coming from Democrats, notably HIM. (At least he seems to have shelved for the moment the tired but no doubt focus-group-tested leftist phrase “our democracy.” And we live in a republic, folks.) If you can’t prevent Republicans from winning by the will of the people, he rationalizes, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to change the law to make manipulating the outcome a cinch. And you’ve got to do this at the federal level, in a bill like the Democrats’ proposed H.R. 1, even though the Constitution clearly gives the authority to run elections to state legislatures.
In the months leading up to November 3, 2020, Elias did an end-run around state legislatures, jetting around from one battleground state to another with a huge team of attorneys --- generally not even licensed to practice in that state --- and legal staff to file suit at both state and county levels. The goal: to force universal "no-excuse" mail-in voting and the lifting of safeguards against dirty tricks, such as traditional restrictions on ballot harvesting. They overwhelmed the Republicans. These changes were designed to lead to chaos --- I’d call it “targeted chaos.” This has become known as the “sue till blue” strategy.
The real attack on democracy was what Elias and his cohorts did to make it easier to cheat and almost impossible to detect the cheating. The chaos they created made that possible.
After the election, Elias made a strategic exit from Perkins Coie and started an “independent” law firm, The Elias Firm, dedicated to getting more Democrats elected and "progressive" legislation passed. So his tweet above really could be taken as his mission statement for the next few years.
Elias’ tweet caught the attention of Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist, who literally wrote the book on the 2020 election, a comprehensive analysis entitled “RIGGED: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections.” As you might imagine, Perkins Coie and partners Marc Elias and Michael Sussmann (who has been indicted by Special Counsel John Durham for not telling the FBI that he was working for Hillary when he was peddling the “dossier”) figure prominently.
She tweeted back: “Marc Elias, who ran the destructive Russia collusion lie operation in 2016, says the quiet part out loud --- decreasing the security and safeguards for elections is Democrats’ ‘best hope’ for winning future elections.”
“This is nonsense,” he responded, “but I did like the part of your book where you wrote about how effective I was in beating the GOP in court in 2020. How’d it sell?”
Only a hack attorney like Elias would take what she said about him in the book as a compliment. It wasn’t meant that way.
She continued: “Oh, I don’t believe I ever wrote about your efforts against election security. But I believe I mentioned that you were sanctioned by the 5th Circuit for your dishonesty.”
Sure enough, starting on page 14 of RIGGED –- a must-read for anyone curious about the 2020 election –- she outlines Elias’ history of working to elect Democrats by changing voting laws, saying that’s his “real passion.” It’s quite a resume. Politico has called him “a dominant force in U.S. election law,” and he certainly proved that in 2020. The proof is in the pudding, which is to say the current pudding-for-brains occupying the White House as a result of his efforts. Hemingway notes that Elias was in charge of the legal challenges in 2008 that put Al Franken in the U.S. Senate in Minnesota and made it possible for the Democrats to pass Obamacare. (“The Republicans never knew what hit them,” she wrote.) She describes in detail how this was engineered. And, yes, she does mention that “the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals sanctioned him [Elias] in March 2021 after he filed a supplemental motion challenging Texas voting laws that was nearly identical to one he’d filed months earlier. The first motion had been denied, and he didn’t disclose the previous denial to the judges.”
Perhaps Mollie could cut Elias a little slack, considering he filed SO MANY challenges to voting laws in different states that he might have honestly forgotten filing that one. Kidding --- one has to wonder if he’s ever “honestly” done anything. Perhaps if he thought he could win an election honestly, he might actually do that, but he’s essentially admitted he has to do it by hook or by crook. Besides, Democrat attorneys are already cut way too much slack --- by each other, as I illustrated yesterday with the failure of the DC Bar to disbar convicted felon Kevin Clinesmith, who falsified a document used to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page.
Anyway, Hemingway also took the opportunity to engage in a bit of well-deserved self-promotion, which we will gladly pass along: “Marc Elias was just reminding me to remind you to purchase my best-selling book. His role in running not just the Russia collusion hoax that so damaged the country in 2016, but also the chaos and confusion of 2020’s election administration is covered well.”
Speaking of Dems trying to overhaul election law to make it easier to cheat, the Democrat Party of Virginia has been trying to block the state Constitution’s requirement for social security numbers but is facing pushback from the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), headed by J. Christian Adams.. PILF maintains that this attempt is a “partisan swipe” at a requirement that has been in place for 50 years. “This lawsuit is an attack on basic election integrity measures,” Adams said in a statement. “These rules exist to protect the right to vote and must always be followed to ensure free and fair elections.”
Well, of course, they do --- why does anyone think Marc Elias and the DNC want to get rid of them?
2. New Podcast Episode:
This week, New York Post columnist and Laptop from Hell author Miranda Devine joins Governor Huckabee to explain why Hunter Biden is on Santa’s naughty list this year… plus, the Gov breaks down all the latest hoopla from the January 6 committee.
3. Too good not to share:
Maybe I should save this story for “In Case You Missed It,” but a manager for New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority has been accused of trying to cheat his way into the High Occupancy Vehicle lane by driving with an inflatable doll in his passenger seat. As you can see at the link, it’s an inflatable male that looks a bit like the Autopilot in the movie “Airplane.”
But wait! He has a good excuse! He wasn’t trying to game the HOV system. He was just lonely. He told reporters, “I use it for the company,” adding, “Have I ever lied to you?”
I suspect he must think that everyone has nothing but air between his ears.
4. Biden is "Perfect":
Tuesday, at a DNC “holiday celebration” (don’t dare call it a Christmas party!), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said of President Biden, “He’s just perfect!”
Ironically, this fell on the same day that New York Times (!) ran a column by Bret Stevens begging Biden to announce that he won’t run for reelection so that some other Democrats can start campaigning. Stevens noted Biden’s advanced age and that in his public appearances, he seems “uneven” and “sometimes alarmingly incoherent.”
I guess that’s why he seems perfect to Nancy Pelosi.
5. Naughty List:
With Christmas only nine days away, Kevin Downey Jr. at PJ Media has made up a Santa’s list of companies that are naughty to conservatives, and their competitors who are nice to conservatives (some may surprise you!) Just in case you don’t want to give your money to someone who’s telling you to get Scrooged.
6. Good news for Democrats:
Kamala Harris finally managed to take credit for a government program that Americans approve of. Unfortunately, it was the Paycheck Protection Program that was part of the CARES Act that Trump signed into law in March of 2020, long before she and Biden took office. But she did take credit for it, and that’s the important thing.
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
Images of America's cities, landscapes and people.
7. Bidenisms:
Today’s Bidenism #1: In signing a measure to speed up the process of Congress raising the debt ceiling by another 2-1/2 trillion dollars, President Biden declared, “The United States pays its debts when they are due. That’s why today, I signed a bill to fast-track the process to raise our debt limit.”
I don’t think “pays our debts” means what he thinks it means.
Today’s Bidenism #2: Here’s a new word for your vocabulary: “Expodentially.” Try to use it in a sentence with “strategery.”
8. Eighteen words you can't say in Canada:
When George Carlin was arrested for doing his “Seven Words You Can’t Say On Television” bit, at least the words were actual curse words. Canada has just issued a list of 18 (!) words people are no longer allowed to say because they might offend someone, and some of them have people baffled as to who would be offended by them or why. Terms like “blackmail,” “grandfathered in,” “tone-deaf” and “first world problem.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eighteen-offensive-words-you-cant-say-canada
If you get horribly offended by these words, then you are a perfect example of someone with a “first world problem.” But as Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge notes, this is only scratching the surface. If we’re going to purge the language of every word anyone might possibly find offensive, we’ve got a long way to go, and he offers some examples.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eighteen-offensive-words-you-cant-say-canada
Warning: he points out that there are 279 words alone in the English language that include the letters “black,” so by the time we’re finished censoring all the words, everyone will just be grunting and pointing. All conversations will sound like Tim Allen monologs.
9. "Huckabee" Preview:
Christmas is just one week away, and I have an early gift for you: a great new holiday episode of “Huckabee” tonight on TBN! Former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows will fill us in on his legal showdown with Nancy Pelosi’s January 6th Committee. Two legends of music and sports, Chris Christian and former Dallas Cowboy Danny White, will reminisce about the classic Cowboys Christmas albums of the 1980s. We’ll have plenty of laughs from columnist Ron Hart and comedian Jeff “Big Daddy” Wayne. And we’ll top this tree with a beautiful Christmas song by Christian music superstars, Point of Grace.
It all starts tonight at 8 and 11 EST, 7 and 10 CST, and Sunday at 9 EST/8 CST, on TBN. To find out how to watch TBN, from local cable and broadcast channels to streaming, visit https://www.huckabee.tv and click on “Channel Finder” on the top menu. You can stream previous episodes, highlights and online-only “Digital Exclusives,” including extended interviews, “In Case You Missed It” and “Facts of the Matter” segments, and extra performances by our great musical and comedy guests, all at https://www.huckabee.tv. You can also find past shows, highlights and digital exclusives on YouTube and my Facebook page.
10. I Just Wanted To Say:
Thank you for reading today's newsletter.
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
Today's Christmas carol is recommended by Patricia, and my wife Valerie.
LISTEN: https://youtu.be/z1RpUV2AQ24
Refrain:
Go tell it on the mountain,
over the hills, and ev'rywhere;
go, tell it on the mountain
that Jesus Christ is born.
1 While shepherds kept their watching
o’er silent flocks by night,
behold, throughout the heavens
there shone a holy light. [Refrain]
2 The shepherds feared and trembled
when lo, above the earth
rang out the angel chorus
that hailed our Savior’s birth. [Refrain]
3 Down in a lowly manger
the humble Christ was born,
and God sent us salvation
that blessed Christmas morn. [Refrain]
Adapter: John Wesley Work
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