Mike Huckabee News

Even though the congressional switchboard was shut down for a while last week due to calls from voters asking their representatives to vote no on the "American Clean Energy and Security Act ", the House of Representatives narrowly passed it anyway.

We haven't met, but you might remember I was one of the first columnists to tout you for John McCain's running mate.

Markos 'Kos' Moulitsas of The Daily Kos has a dream that one day Charlie Crist will do some soul searching, look deep inside himself, and finally come out ...as a Democrat.

Michael Barone has a fascinating insight that, dare I say, I'd never really contemplated before.

It speaks ill of John McCain that his former aids continue to bash Sarah Palin .

" And nationally racy emails between south Carolina's governor. And his mistress.

John Ensign and Mark Sanford are revealing TMI. Sarah Palin is struggling with her state legislature.

So says Ken Rudin, who writes NPR's daily political blog, Political Junkie . Dismissing House and Senate Republicans, he focuses on governors as the future of the GOP.

Could my governor, the charismatic Sarah Palin, be the leader Republicans are desperately looking for to lead their party out of the wilderness in 2010? Unlike Fox News commentator and former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, Palin attracts adulatory crowds wherever she ventures beyond her home state.

A Searcy businessman said Tuesday he's seeking the Republican party's nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen.

June 17, 2009 By Douglas McIntosh If I had to describe myself in this moment of economic chaos, I would say I am the grizzled sergeant, war weary, caught in the zone of instinctive awareness that combat veterans have. In order to survive you become a detached, cynical professional. In the sense of college degrees I am a rank amateur. However, over the last decade I have called the economic sphere pretty well. Perhaps the timing has been off, but I have nailed the trends perfectly. It takes a while for a two inch garden hose to fill a swimming pool, but it will fill it. Likewise, the endless debt, credit and bubbles of the last 25 years are finally reaching critical mass. It is no longer a matter of whether we have an economic collapse. No it is a matter of the scope, the intensity and the social chaos that economic collapse causes. My moniker over at Tree of Liberty is Doomer Doug, so I know what I am talking about. In a phrase, it is not coming: it is here.

Tim Pawlenty is stepping onto Mike Huckabee's turf. The Minnesota governor is headlining a fundraiser for Republicans in Little Rock Friday night, the latest in a string of high-profile Republicans to visit Huckabee's home state.

Former MA Gov. Mitt Romney , who hasn't ruled out another bid for the Republican presidential nomination in '12, got some encouragement from a new poll conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press 6/10-14, in which his favorable ratings have shot up since he ended his '08 bid for the GOP nod.

He did it again. Soon after my post about interviewing Jon Stewart , his interview with Mike Huckabee about abortion was brought to my attention.

Everyone seems to have forgotten that when it comes to South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.

Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that's what they want to do.

See Huckabee's endorsement here. And PLEASE support Marco Rubio for the Florida senate race against Charlie Crist.

Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is calling for a stronger U.S. response in support of political protesters in Iran.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will be in Huntsville Tuesday night to help raise money for District 5 congressional candidate Les Phillip.

An effort to expel Fort Worth's Broadway Baptist Church from the denomination because of its stances on homosexuality and an Arlington pastor's proclamation of President Barack Obama's election as a milestone of racial progress will be considered at next week's Southern Baptist Convention.