Republican Lies category archive

Dick Polman looks at Darrell Issa and sees Geraldo:

I can’t help but recall Geraldo Rivera’s infamous TV documentary about Al Capone. This was in 1986. Geraldo said he’d found the gangster’s secret vault, and promised to open it on live TV.

Do read the rest.

Via C&L.

Chris Hayes parses the propaganda.

A quote from James Inhofe, R–One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, encapsulates the Republican strategy of lies:

There’s no downside if I’m wrong on this.

Via Bob Cesca.

Rachel Maddow reports on the latest tactic in the Republican gut-out-the-vote movement.

Jaded as one might be, Republican hypocrisy is forever new and fresh.

Now, just arriving from the Appalachian Trail:

“Do you think that President Clinton should be condemned for the rest of his life based on a mistake he made in his life?” Sanford asked during a recent debate with his opponent, the Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch.

That would be the same President Clinton that Sanford once voted to impeach.

Ten years ago today, George the Worst patted himself on the back on the carrrier Abraham Lincoln, congratulating himself for victory in the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq.

He turned out to be about ten years early.

Dick Polman looks back. A nugget:

For his (George W. Bush–ed.) defenders, I offer this simple test: Imagine what they’d say if Barack Obama reacted to a 9/11-style domestic terrorist attack by invading the wrong foreign country under false pretenses, and then declaring that “major combat operations” had ended – when, in reality, the major combat operations, the deaths of thousands of American soldiers, the wounded and maiming of tens of thousands more, and the budget-busting expenditure of three trillion dollars, were only just beginning.

Dick Destiny wrote this so I don’t have to.

Maine’s Republican governor mills a big one.

As long as folks who feel free to make up any old thing because it sounds good, ignoring facts completely, can keep getting elected, we will continue to be doomed.

PoliticalProf explains how wingnuts are trying to turn “religious freedom” on its head. A nugget (emphasis added):

So my local paper published a letter to the editor on Sunday, the upshot of which was a claim that if the writer were required to live in a country that had gay marriage, that would violate her religious freedom. “What will happen to those of us who believe gay marriage is wrong?,” she asked. ”I feel that this will infringe on my religious rights which is unconstitutional.”

(snip)

Indeed, the writer’s version of religious “freedom” in this case is nothing of the sort: it embodies the use of State power to enforce a particular religious value. Which is pretty much exactly what religious freedom is not.

Cut through the wingnut crap. Read the rest.

The Booman nails the lie. A nugget (emphasis added):

Their entire aim is to reduce the number of votes cast, and to do it in a way that assures that more Democratic votes will be lost than Republican. It’s that simple. It’s a version of cheating.

Now, the Republicans and much of the press respond that this is just of flip side of the Democrats’ push for vote-by-mail, early voting, etc. But this is a representative democracy, and encouraging citizen participation is not the flip-side of discouraging citizen participation. They are not equally partisan exercises. One act is legitimate, and the other is illegitimate. One act helps people exercise their rights, and the other seeks to take away their rights.

Read the rest.

In my local rag, Roger Chesley tells the story of one of the persons the Republican Party of Virginia wishes to disenfranchise. A nugget:

Carter is 85. She was born at home in Baltimore, and she never had a birth certificate. After Carter moved to the commonwealth in the 1950s, she eventually got a state ID card – she’d never learned how to drive because “the highways petrified me.”

When that card expired in 2006, the state wouldn’t renew it. The 9/11 attacks brought stricter regulations.

Carter, who spoke to me by phone from her Richmond home, told me she had to contact a genealogist, research the 1940 census and request help from the federal government. The six-year effort finally ended in 2012, when her new documents passed state muster.

She testified about this before lawmakers debating photo ID legislation.

Carter had voted for years in Virginia with no problems. But if the state’s new photo ID law – signed this week by Gov. Bob McDonnell – had been in effect, she would’ve been turned away at the polls.

Virginians will have to start showing photo proof as of July 2014.

Read the rest.

The true “voter fraud” is the Republican Party’s campaign to gut out the vote.

Chris Honore discovers that Republicans lie. A snippet:

What is clear is that as narrators of their convictions on a myriad of issues the Republicans are decidedly unreliable. They say stuff, lots of stuff, knowing that it’s either completely disingenuous or simply flat-out untrue, convinced that if they rinse* and repeat it will eventually sound credible to the voters.

Who woulda thunk?

Do read the rest, which details the path to this discovery.

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*Methinks he misplet “Reince.”

George Smith remembers who put the lie in the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq.

Via C&L.

The Rude One commemorates the beginning of the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq with eight haikus.

Here’s one; click for the rest.

Legacy I

Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush,
Et al, got away with it.
We failed history.

Lies Republicans tell themselves are many. Brent Larkin dissects one of the latest:

Because Ohio was the mother of all swing states, Republicans have focused on this state as the textbook example of their urban legend — repeatedly attributing much of Obama’s win here to the president’s receiving about 100,000 more black votes in 2012 than he did in 2008.

(snip)

“Why did 100,000-plus more African Americans in Ohio vote for President Obama than turned out four years ago?” wrote Stevens. “It’s not irrelevant that Obamacare is most popular with African Americans.”

Until now, there’s been little or no public rebuttal of the Republican theory about Ohio, which many seem to accept as gospel.

What makes that so surprising is that the theory is demonstrably false. Worse yet, it’s not even close to being true.

Anything beats admitting voters recognized that their candidates were cartoons and their ideas ideas are harmful to the citizenry and inimical to the polity.

Follow the link for the arithmetic.