TPM’s Election Central brings us another fine example of Mike Huckabee’s priorities:
As governor of Arkansas in 1997, Huckabee held up passage of a bill to protect storm victims from insurance companies — thus creating a window of time for the companies to cancel people’s coverage — on the grounds that the bill used the traditional legal term “acts of God”[.]
Huh? You’re kidding, right? I mean, this must be some terribly unfair characterization by an opponent. Umm, no. His own words:
Mr. Huckabee said that signing the legislation ”would be violating my own conscience” inasmuch as it described ”a destructive and deadly force as being ‘an act of God.’ ”
That’s right. You better not talk bad about God in front of him. Or in a bill passed by the legislature.
Governor Huckabee’s explained his objections in a letter to the bill’s authors, saying: ”I feel that I have indeed witnessed many ‘acts of God,’ but I see His actions in the miraculous sparing of life, the sacrifice and selfless spirit in which so many responded to the pain of others.”
He brings his crazy to work, folks. Don’t let the easy manner on television or his (seeming?) decency to the poor fool you.
Update: However, here is a fantastic pro-Huckabee video. Do check it out.
Carla
Oh, Jeebus, how long Lord, how long must we deal with the ignorance and narrowmindedness of the self-appointed God-warriors and their ilk? It’s a term of freakin’ art and it’s been around for at least 125 years. It’s just a quaint way of referring to natural disasters. Arrrgghh!
MB
You know, I hate to do the opinion-by-example thing, but I just told this story to someone who, as a rule, thinks the best of everyone. She would find the good in Jim Jones. Her response, roughly translated, was “you’ve got to be fucking kidding me.”
Man, this is gonna be fun.
April
Perhaps he would have been o.k. if insurance policies said coverage was excluded for “an act of God or an act of Satan”. He’s got to blame random events on somebody.