Huckabee: GOP in D.C. ‘Folded’ on Omnibus Bill; They Only Care About Exporting Oil

‘That’s why people in the Republican party are just bolting for the door’

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SCARBOROUGH: "Lost faith in the Republican party. He’s renouncing his membership over last week’s spending bill. He wrote, after all of the appalling facts revealed this year about Planned Parenthood our representatives in Washington had a chance to put a stop to this, but they didn’t. Graham compared planned Parenthood to Nazis and wrote, quote, that shouldn’t have been all that was needed to turn off the faucet for their funding. Nothing was done to trim this 2,000-page, $1.1 billion budget. He said it was why he was getting out of the GOP. Let’s go to Little Rock, Arkansas. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and Richard Haass and Michael Steele still with us. Governor, let’s begin with you. Read an article talking about the revolution inside the Republican party, and he quoted you at one point saying we need to nominate candidates who look more like the people our voters work with instead of like the boss who fired them. Are we getting any closer in 2016 to achieving that goal?"
HUCKABEE: "I am not sure. I do know that voters are very angry. You sense it on the campaign trail. I was just in Iowa yesterday, the day before. One of the things you see is a seething rage. And this budget vote last week that you just referenced from Franklin graham’s statement, it put a lot of people over the top because they just feel like that the whole purpose of working hard to get Republican majorities in the House and Senate was to make some significant policy changes. The Republicans folded. They were given four aces, and they laid their cards down before they even anted up for the game. It was absolutely outrageous to see a whole litany of things, whether it was planned Parenthood funding, funding for Syrian refugee relocation. 400 percent increase in bringing in foreign workers to replace Americans. I mean, all the Republicans got was export of oil. What does that say about Republicans? That the only thing they care about is exporting oil? They don’t care a hoot about the values of the rank-and-file Republicans? That’s why people in the Republican party are just bolting for the door."

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