Republican Lies category archive

The slideshow at Newshound lays it out. (Click to advance the slides.)

Via TPM.

Chauncey Devega decodes the code. It’s the odious Southern strategy once more all over again.

. . . this (the “makers” vs. the “takers” construct–ed.) is a lie and a misrepresentation of reality (more whites are poor and on government assistance than any other group in America); nevertheless this fiction serves Romney’s campaign of overt and subtle racism against Obama quite well.

Romney’s narrative of “makers” and “takers” is rooted in the Republican Party’s ability to put a black and brown face on poverty in America by the use of what has come to be described as “the Southern Strategy.” Since at least Richard Nixon, conservatives realized that by linking anti-poverty programs to people of color that white support for these policies can be undercut.

Because it’s all they got.

Sarah Silverman, below the fold (warning: extreme language).

Via Rolling Stone.

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Via Romney the Liar (he keeps track of Romney’s lies so you don’t have to).

Section V of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania states

Elections shall be free and equal; and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent the free exercise of the right of suffrage.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court seems to have read that bit:

Pennsylvania’s highest court on Tuesday told a lower court judge to stop a tough new law requiring voters to show photo identification from taking effect in this year’s presidential election if he finds voters cannot easily get ID cards or if he thinks they will be disenfranchised.

The 4-2 decision by the state Supreme Court sends the case back to a Commonwealth Court judge who initially said the divisive law could go forward. The high court asked the judge, Robert Simpson, for his opinion by Oct. 2.

If Simpson finds there will be no voter disenfranchisement and that IDs are easily obtained, then the 6-month-old law can stand, the Supreme Court said.

Of course, the purpose of the law was disenfranchisement, so we shall see whether Judge Simpson will try to spin his way out of this one.

Via Balloon Juice.

The related website is here; it’s still very new: http://www.aclu.org/blog/letmevote

Oliver Burkeman explores the emptiness.

Mike Papantonio discusses the plan for wingnut whackjobs to use their magic clipboards to keep you from voting this fall.

Republicans just can’t keep themselves from lying about the dead for political gain.

By taking away their right to vote, one person at a time.

Addendum:

Unless the vet is related to a a rich bigmouth on the telly vision.

Rep. Todd Akin’s effort to continue his bid for the Missouri Senate seat is now faced with a new challenge: Paying the campaign’s bills for TV ads on time.

(snip)

The Akin campaign told CBS radio that the payment problem was a scheduling mistake, and the next checks are on their way.

Akin has been frozen out of conventional Republican fundraising efforts, following his false comment that women’s bodies can prevent pregnancy in cases of “legitimate rape,” and the GOP’s efforts to pressure him to drop out.

As the public record shows, the issue is not the scientifically illiterate falsehoods; the GOP thrives of falsehoods.

The Republican Party is not punishing Akin for what he said. It’s punishing him for saying it where it could be overheard.

Simply the resurrection of Jim Crow, nothing more nor less.

From the webiste:

Mike Papantonio and Ed Schultz discuss the Tea Party’s constant charge that “Obama hates America,” as well as how the entire Republican Party has become a reactionary, intolerant bunch with no facts to stand on.

Psychology Today offers qualified assistance.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.