Thou Shalt Not What? Lie or Kill? Really?

Just rec'd. an e-mail from War on Christmas HQ indicating that X-Mess is next Tues. We'd been thinking next Weds. So in the spirit of the season (a good bourbon w/ regular eggnog is our preference) we'll present both the Huckabee Fambly Christmas card (from when Huck was gov.):The photo is all over the web, but we go the extra mile, here's the message as well, & Huck's pandering X-Mess advert.The Dog MurdererEither Huck is a liar, or everyone he comes into contact w/ is. We've seen the varying stories about pressuring the Arkansas parole board; now the former Arkansas state police director says one thing:

John Bailey, then the director of Arkansas's state police, tells NEWSWEEK that Governor Huckabee's chief of staff and personal lawyer both leaned on him to write a letter officially denying the local prosecutor's request.

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Seven months later, he was called into Huckabee's office and fired. "I've lost confidence in your ability to do your job," Bailey says Huckabee told him. One reason Huckabee cited was "I couldn't get you to help me with my son when I had that problem," according to Bailey. "Without question, [Huckabee] was making a conscious attempt to keep the state police from investigating his son," says I. C. Smith, the former FBI chief in Little Rock, who worked closely with Bailey and called him a "courageous" and "very solid" professional.

& Huck & his cronies say another (sort of):

Huckabee called Bailey's account "totally untrue" and described him as a "bitter" ex-employee. "I asked him to resign because he had so alienated the entire state police," he said. "It had nothing to do with my son." Brenda Turner, Huckabee's then chief of staff, and Kevin Crass, the Huckabee family lawyer, also disputed Bailey's account, although both acknowledged talking to him about the dog killing. "I asked him, 'Is it normal for the state police to … investigate something that happened at a Boy Scout camp?' " Turner says. "We wanted the same treatment that anybody else would get."

Oh, yeah, Huckabee's son David was accused of killing a stray dog at a Boy Scout camp where he worked as a counselor. Huck's son may have all the exciting possibilities of Roger Clinton & Billy Carter as far as relatives of hick Presidents go, w/ the interesting addition of violence & maybe even gunplay:

In April of this year, he was arrested—and paid a fine—when he forgot to remove a loaded gun from his carry-on luggage at Little Rock airport.

And here's the Prince of Arkansas' mug shot:In the great American tradition, vote early & vote often. A minimum four yrs. amusement guaranteed.