Huckabee Spins Out of Control
Apparently Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee took a verbal jab at the Club for Growth yesterday while trying to defend his support for a minimum wage hike that he signed into law earlier this week.
In a Bizarro-world spin effort, he said it was a "conservative" decision to hike the minimum wage because it prevented a worse alternative. Well, there's nothing conservative about this quote that I pulled from an Arkansas newspaper:
Huckabee said he'd prefer that the minimum wage be increased federally and not on a state-by-state basis.
"I wish that it would be addressed on the federal level, that's what should be happening," Huckabee said.
I would have figured that the disastrous price controls of the 1970s would have taught Republicans that such policies produce shortages. In the case of the minimum wage, not only is it a tax hike on small businesses, but it also increases unemployment. Any simple supply and demand graph can show you that.
Also, digging up a quote from 2001, Huckabee seemed willing to take legal action against the mean and evil "price gougers" in the wake of 9/11.
No true conservative would countenance such economically harmful ideas. And that's one of the reasons why Huckabee is no true conservative.
(For those of you who are coming to the Club's blog for the first time, you can read my previous posts about Huckabee here, here, here, here, and here.)
UPDATE (1:58pm): The Blue State Republicans blog gets in on the action. Referring to the minimum wage hike and also a state-wide smoking ban that Huckabee approved, they write, "...these actions are decidedly un-conservative."
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