{"id":2566,"date":"2007-06-26T09:56:52","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T15:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:48:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:48:38","slug":"huckabee-suggests-pelosi-for-alternative-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/huckabee-suggests-pelosi-for-alternative-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Huckabee suggests Pelosi for alternative energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorehuckabee.com\" title=\"ExploreHuckabee.com - I like Mike!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.explorehuckabee.com\/images\/banner_forpresidentblue.png\" width=\"190\" height=\"85\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ExploreHuckabee.com - I Like Mike!\" title=\"ExploreHuckabee.com - I Like Mike!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought this was a great &#8220;quote&#8221; from a conference call with bloggers today from <strong>presidential candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorehuckabee.com\">Mike Huckabee<\/a><\/strong>.<br \/>\nWhile talking with the bloggers, <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/christianconservative.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/26\/june-24-conversation-with-gov-huckabee\/\">Christianconservative<\/span> reports that the former Arkansas governor said that current alternative energy plans probably won&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the past, those plans have been in the 25 to 30 years range \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What that means is they never happen,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Huckabee said \u00e2\u20ac\u201c if he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s elected president, the Governor will pursue alternative energy sources aggressively.<br \/>\nWe could put a wind mill outside of the capitol, Huckabee said, so that every time Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi make speeches, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we should have enough power to run most of the east coast.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not bad, not bad at all.<br \/>\nHuckabee also touched on immigration and said he wasn&#8217;t a fan of the current proposed legislation saying if other Americans could get out of back taxes by simply paying $2,000 they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d come out \u00e2\u20ac\u0153so far ahead.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nHe also stood behind his support of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairtax.org\">Fair Tax<\/a>. The Fair Tax would eliminate the IRS and the current tax system and move our tax system to a system of sales tax, or consumption tax.<br \/>\nI am a huge proponent for this idea as well.<br \/>\nIt will be interesting to see what happens next in the race. Some have suggested <strong>Sen. John McCain<\/strong> may pull out before too long, but we&#8217;ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was a great &#8220;quote&#8221; from a conference call with bloggers today from presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. While talking with the bloggers, Christianconservative reports that the former Arkansas governor said that current alternative energy plans probably won&#8217;t happen. In the past, those plans have been in the 25 to 30 years range \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/huckabee-suggests-pelosi-for-alternative-energy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Huckabee suggests Pelosi for alternative energy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-newsandpop","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Fo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}