Republican Lies category archive
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Paul Krugman explains lies have a way of catching up with liars, with the loathsome Graham-Cassidy bill being just one example. A nugget:
The answer is that Republicans have spent years routinely lying for the sake of political advantage. And now — not just on health care, but across the board — they are trapped by their own lies, forced into trying to enact policies they know won’t work.
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It Walks Again by Night 0
Of course, there is no such thing as as “Alt-Left’ movement. The fictional Alt-Left is nothing more than the Neo-Nazi white right looking in a mirror and seeing its image in reverse.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Dick Polman ruminates on Texas Republicans’ actions followinng Hurricane Harvey. A snippet:
It’s been a while since we’ve enjoyed a carnival Cruz.
In January 2013, when Congress readied a $50-billion Sandy recovery package, 36 Republican senators — including Texas’ John Cornyn and Ted Cruz — voted to reject it. Those are the same senators, who, in the wake of Harvey, wrote a letter begging the federal government “to provide any and all emergency protective measures.”
On Monday, when Cruz was on MSNBC pleading for his “any and all” Harvey recovery package, he was asked about his thumbs-down Sandy vote. In response, he insisted that “the bill was filled with unrelated pork. Two-thirds of that bill had nothing to do with Sandy.”
Cruz lied.
All the News that Fits 0
Mike muses on Trumpled TV. (Warning: Language.)
The Panderers’ Party (Updated) 0
In the Portland Press-Herald, Roger Bowen reflects on the Republican Party’s denial of objective facts. He starts with Republicans’ denial of climate change, when is already affecting Maine’s lobster industry, and moves on to other issues. Here’s a bit (emphasis added):
No surprise – America’s voting public is polarized, and partisan stances on climate change is but one example. . . .
To deny climate change is to repudiate the former president, much in the same way as to deny the beneficial effects of Obamacare, such as providing health insurance for the poor, is seen as an opportunity to reverse Obama’s success. If today’s Republican Party stands for anything, it stands for undoing Obama’s contributions to advancing the public good.
A Question of Identity 0
In a larger column about the apparent survival of the Affordable Care Act, despite Mitch McConnell’s machinations, Paul Krugman serves up this gem:
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Running the Numbers 0
There’s no delusion like self-delusion.