Huckabee’s ‘anti-religious’ slander of the stimulus bill: Updated

The red meat claim from Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is that the stimulus bill is anti-religious.

Because it contains 46-year-old boilerplate [.pdf] prohibitions against spending the money for unconstitutionally religious purposes, as Steve Benen correctly explains.

What a delicious falsehood to toss out and lard with the throwaway line, “You would think the ACLU drafted this bill.”

“What can we do?” Huck asks.

Since he’s willing to try to whip us into a irrational frenzy over nothing, ignore him.

It is passing unlikely that a former governor was ignorant of this issue when he started laying it on us, but if so, it’s almost as bad to fail that egregiously to do one’s homework.

Addendum: Hucabee’s frenzy manufacturing began as a fund-raising ploy.

Last week, he sent an email calling Obama’s stimulus package “a real stink bomb,” and recommending his supporters donate to his political action committee in order to eventually “change the math” in Congress.

Or fuel his unfulfilled presidential aspirations?