What's Wrong With The Governor?
by Eli Harvey. (Click "Comments" below for article)
posted by Mark Moore (Moderator) at Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
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What’s With The Governor?
by Eli Harvey
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported on March 17 that Gov. Mike Huckabee will neither sign nor veto Senate Bill 999 –a bill that would “expand gambling at the state’s racetracks.”
Yet, the governor, a former Baptist pastor, says he’s opposed to gambling.
“My own vote is a no vote, but it doesn’t do anything to help in the legislative process to go through a futile attempt to veto a bill that’s going to be overridden.”
But, how does he know it will be overridden? Cannot legislators change their minds? Besides, when a thing is wrong, it is wrong. To compromise with wrong is to be complicit with it.
I am reminded of a quotation attributed to Dr. Bob Jones, Sr., founder of Bob Jones University, “It’s never right to do wrong to do right.” Sometimes doing nothing is equal to the wrong thing.
Huckabee is said to oppose any expansion of gambling, but allows that “It would have been better to open it up to competitive bids to see if another company wanted to offer a bigger cut of the gambling proceeds to the state.”
To those familiar with incidents in the Old Testament, this sounds like Balaam. When God wouldn’t allow the erring prophet to put a curse on Israel, the prophet side-stepped the issue and gave Balak, the king, another plan --one that would demoralize Israel. It worked.
To this writer, Gov. Huckabee sounds like a politician who wants it both ways. Looking to bid for the GOP Presidential nomination in 2008, he sees that by not vetoing the gambling bill, he can garner support from the gaming crowd by saying that he allowed it to become law. At the same time, he can continue to claim that he “opposes gambling.” The big question is: Will conservative Christians forget by the time 2008 rolls around? My bet is that they won’t. Isn’t the governor supposed to be a Republican? Doesn’t he know that elephants never forget?
Too many conservative leaders seem to "oppose" something by speaking out against it in rooms full of conservative voters- and that is the limit of their opposition.
I'd like to see some of them, besides say Holt, really take some heat for sticking to their guns.
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