The Constitution Ain't Good Enough

Via Raw Story, via the always interesting Terry Kanago...

Assuming this has been accurately reported, it seems that Mike Huckabee has plans for the Constitution should he be elected President:

"I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution," Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. "But I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that's what we need to do -- to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view."

So... we need to rewrite the Constitution so that it's more in line with Huckabee's right-wingnut version of the Bible? Wow, and we thought King George was bad...

Our Great Negotiator

King George is on the final leg of his Middle East grand tour. Thank god. I don't think we could afford to have him stay out there much longer.

First he went to Israel -- his first visit there since he took office: obviously he doesn't think that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict requires much presidential attention. He had the two sides sit down together, they made the expected polite noises, and as soon as King George left, they went back to provocations and killings as usual.

Then he moved on to Saudi Arabia, where he handed the Saudis lots of nice new weaponry. Gee, wonder who'll be on the receiving end of that stuff?

During a speech there, he did his best to ease Iranian tensions by gently stating "Iran is the world's leading state sponsor of terror." Such delicate diplomacy!

Finally, King George then got on bended knee and begged the Saudis to up production of oil so as to ease the prices here. The Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum and natural resources responded that Saudi Arabia "will raise production when the market justifies it" and not before.

King George did not respond by saying "Well then, that weapons deal? Forget it."

I can't wait until we have an actual foreign policy again.