Mike Huckabee Kicks-Off Book Tour in Iowa
February 18, 2011 2 Comments
He just doesn’t slow down. Mike Huckabee has just returned from an extended trip to Israel which was his 15th visit there (read this Politico article about some of it) and starting on February 27 he will embark on a twelve state, forty city tour to promote his new policy book A Simple Government and that mega-tour starts here in Iowa with six stops.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27
2:00-3:00 PM
Sam’s Club
3887 Elmore Ave.
Davenport, IA 52807
4:30-5:30 PM
Borders
555 John F. Kennedy Road
Dubuque, IA 52002
7:30-8:30 PM
Barnes & Noble
1518 Flammang Dr.
Waterloo, IA 50702
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28
12:00-1:00 PM
Barnes & Noble
333 Collins Road NE, Bldg 1
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
4:00-5:00 PM
University of Iowa Bookstore
Old Capitol Town Center
201 South Clinton St.
Iowa City, IA 52240
7:30-8:30 PM
Borders
4100 University Ave.
Suite 115
West Des Moines, IA 50265
You can RSVP for any of these stops and you will be sent up-to-date information on that event. If you can’t attend one of these events you can order an autographed copy of A Simple Government or puchase the book at many other retailers.
Huckabee had this to say about his new book in an email to supporters:
Just when I think the Obama Administration can’t possibly pile on more debt, more job-killing regulations, and more intrusions into our private lives, they surprise me. So I decided to sum up why I disagree with them about spending, taxes, health care, immigration, terrorism… and just about every other issue.
And while I was pondering our current problems, I kept thinking about the Founding Fathers. They understood that the best government is a simple government. They wrote the entire Constitution in about 20 pages of plain English. Compare that to the Obamacare bill alone — more than 2,000 pages of gobbledygook!
Don’t get me wrong — I know that problems like unemployment and national security are complex. But the principles that can solve them are simple: personal liberty, accountability, standing up to bullies, putting local government ahead of Washington, and putting the family ahead of everything.
In short, A SIMPLE GOVERNMENT is about the twelve things we really need from Washington — and a trillion that we don’t.
Governor Huckabee has stated that he will decide if he is going to run for President again by the end of this summer but it looks like Iowa is already getting a taste of some ninety degree weather.
UNCLE SAM HAD A RANCH
Chuck Brocka
Cowboys gather near the cow pond to weigh a problem. They might be losing their ranch. Their Chicago foreman stands before them to explain the situation. He recently spent hundreds-of-thousands of the United Ranch dollars, but where did he get the money? There was merely mock accountability besides those in on his plan. And where did that money go? So now will the ranch survive that growing debt to outside sources? Already having lost several herds and much of the land, still the foreman spends in excess to hire more cowboys to ride the diminishing ranch. Meanwhile outlaws who are unbelievably dangerous have been moving onto the range. Yet his strategy is to collect his cowboy’s guns.
People hardly notice the bubbles rising to the top of the pond as someone inquires what is down there? Some of the cowboys are sharp enough to know what is going on. One in alarm says, “That’s Uncle Sam, the owner of our ranch down there struggling to survive! Once a champion swimmer he’s gotten too sick to swim.” Will old Uncle Sam make it to the top or is he going to drown?
The foreman, careful to avoid drawing attention to the bubbles, delivers the speech. He never owns any of his problems, rather complains that their rate of spending is unsustainable as he profoundly insists that we have to fix it. He says, “We live within our means. You cowboys on both sides of the aisle work with me towards recovery.”
A cowboy grumbles, “At the present rate our future owners will be speaking Aramaic or Mandarin. Other cowboys are optimistic, because as long as they see acres of range before them and some cows on the range, they have the feeling that everything is okay. As long as they have horses to ride, who cares who owns them? Will they figure out that one Chicago foreman and those like the right-arm women running with him can ruin and dismantle a ranch in just a short time?
The foreman continues, “I believe that at least half of you agree that we need healthcare for our cowboys (and everyone else who sneeks onto the range).” However, it looks like the cowboy kids of the future will have to say, “No, we do not have healthcare, not of any kind because we don’t even have a ranch. Old dear Uncle Sam has gone broke and died.”
Trillions! China gaining control of our country! Recently, Germans wanting to buy the New York Stock Exchange! Irresponsible unaccountability and the gall to complain, “We” need to fix it? Fast-forward! There is a word to explain drowning empires. History!
Huck’s been to Israel 15 times? Unbelievable! Has he been anywhere else that often?