Thread: Gomer Huckabee Gets Caught Lying (Again)

This Gomer quote came from one of his acolytes who posts on ALIPAC:

You sent us a link to an article [Tancredo] posted regarding my record. In that article he said I denounced Senate Bill 206 which "would have required proof of citizenship to register to vote and would have required state agencies to report suspected cases of people living in the country illegally." This is true, but I would have gladly supported a different Bill with the same requirements listed above. The reason I opposed Bill 206, and called it "un-Christian" is because it prohibited emergency rooms from performing life-saving medical procedures if a patient could not prove their legal status. I think it is abhorrent to let anyone, regardless of legal status, die on the steps of an American hospital because the doctors would face prosecution for treating someone if they were here illegally. If Tancredo thinks that sounds just, I don't think any sane American would want him as President.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1922083/posts

Emphasis mine. In reality, Senate Bill 206 was all about making sure that only U.S. citizens were allowed to vote and only U.S. citizens and legal immigrants were allowed to receive public benefits in Arkansas. The bill didn't say anything about denying emergency medical services to illegal aliens. As we all know, the federal government's Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985 (EMTALA) "imposes viciously stiff fines and penalties up to $50,000 for each incident upon any physician and any hospital refusing to treat any patient that a vigorous prosecutor deems an emergency patient". Consequently, the Arkansas state legislators who crafted Senate Bill 206 would have been crazy to include a clause forcing physicians and hospitals to deny emergency care for illegal aliens because it would have caused Arkansas physicians and hospitals to get stiff fines and penalties if/when said physicians and hospitals denied emergency care to illegal aliens.

Nice try, Gomer. Nice try.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeleine.htm

http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/b ... /SB206.pdf

(Edited to add link for Gomer quote and to correct grammar and spelling errors)

I think it is abhorrent to let anyone, regardless of legal status, die on the steps of an American hospital because the doctors would face prosecution for treating someone if they were here illegally.

Even though Mexico does it all the time, that is let LEGAL American tourists visitng in Mexico die on the floor of their hospital ER's because they don't have the cash up front, in full to pay for their treatment? So what's good for the illegal is not good enough for Americans, eh Mr. Hucksterbee?

Glad you caught this. You should post it far and wide.

W

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Glad you caught this. You should post it far and wide.

W

I already sent it to Drudge.

But American taxpayers are denied hospital treatment everyday if they have no insurance and can't prove they can pay. The Dr.'s have no problems turning down treatment either to the uninsured Americans. What is so speical about illegals being treated?

What is so speical about illegals being treated

Illegals get special"treatment"

Despite Huckabee's "no amnesty" pledge, looks like he is peddling a type of guest worker, "touchback" amnesty scheme (and I bet these illegal workers would be able to bring their families in, or their family members would never leave). From Chris Wallace's show. Spread this around:

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WALLACE: Let's turn to immigration, because you put out a new immigration plan this week. You called for building...

HUCKABEE: Yes.

WALLACE: ... a border fence, for cracking down on employers, for telling illegals to go home.

But last year in an interview, you said something somewhat different. You said this, "I think that the rational approach is to find a way to give people a pathway to citizenship."

Governor, in your new plan, the only path is to go home and to get on the back of the line, which, of course, would mean years of waiting. Why the change?

HUCKABEE: Well, I don't think there's an inconsistency. When I said a pathway, I didn't say what the pathway was.

I now believe that the only thing the American people are going to accept — and, frankly, the only thing that really makes sense — is a pathway that sends people back to the starting point.

But this idea of the waiting years — no, I don't agree with that. In fact, look, if we can get a credit card application done within hours, if we can get passports done within days, if we can transact business over the Internet any place in the world within seconds, do a background check instantaneously — it's our government that has failed and is dysfunctional.

It shouldn't take years to get a work permit to come here and pick lettuce. So part of the plan that I have is that we seal the borders. You don't have amnesty and sanctuary cities. You do have a pathway that gets you back home.

But that pathway to get back here legally doesn't take years. It would take days, maybe weeks, and then people could come back in the workforce.

Let me tell you why that's important. Two reasons. Number one, the American people say, "Do something. Do it now. We don't want to have this country ignoring the illegal problem." I get it.

Secondly, I want people who are in this country to hold their heads up high. You know, right now there are a lot of people who really are here because they're trying to feed their families. I don't begrudge them that.

I say every day I thank God I'm in a country people are trying to break into, not break out of. But let's give them a means by which they can get here through the door legally, and when they're here they don't have to hide, they don't have to keep their heads down and hope nobody catches them, they have their heads held high.

Everyone living within the borders of the United States ought to do so with dignity and with a sense of pride, not a sense of fear.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316253,00.html

Man he sucks. I used to like him until I found out the details. Ugh.

HUCKABEE: Well, I don't think there's an inconsistency. When I said a pathway, I didn't say what the pathway was.

So are we to 'guess' at what the pathway is? Sounds like Orc mischief to me. We don't want anyone who can't put into plain words what it is they want or intend. Gomer Huckleberry is a double talker working for the OBLers. He's the type that won't stand up when he's needed. If elected, he will walk, talk and act like the jerk that currently resides in the White House. Shucks Huck!

I saw that, too, Populist. Huckabee thinks that illegals should go home to apply for a "pathway" but come right back in a few days. Don't let anyone kid you, this man is for amnesty.