Republican Lies category archive

PoliticalProf explains how this works:

1. political figure makes absurd claim about an opponent/policy;
2. partisans respond, defending or the denying the claim according to their ideologies;
3. the focus rapidly turns onto the person or policy against whom the original charge was made: the person or policy has to “prove” it does not do/say what the accuser claims;
4. the firestorm cools down until new charge X is made and the cycle repeats.

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Climate change is not something “to believe in.”

It’s something that is.

Via the Green Miles.

Eugene Robinson offers a qualifying test.

Before asking a question at the coming show trial, each self-righteous congressional inquisitor should be required to correctly locate Benghazi on an unlabeled map.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

I have not mentioned the melting of the West Antarctica ice sheet because I kept thinking, really, what else is there to say? Soon, probably not within my lifetime, but soon, Pine View Farm and its environs–and Virginia Beach, for that matter–will be all gone because of greed and inertia.

Shaun Mullen answered my question today. Just read it.

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Never-say-diers.

Via C&L.

As Dave Johnson points out,

Here is the difference: Republicans seem to sincerely believe that Americans only rally around Republican Presidents when the country is attacked. This is probably related to their sincere belief that no Democratic President is legitimate.

So their logic is that if the country heard that this was a terrorist attack they would turn against the President before the election, and to Mitt Romney. And therefore Romney was “cheated” out of a victory.

Benghazi appears to be about a Republican belief that Americans do not rally around their President when the country is attacked, but only around Republican presidents (or candidates apparently.)

Image via Juanita Jean.

Oliver Willis narrates the life of Barack Obama as told by conservatives.

I cannot excerpt or summarize it and do it justice. Just go read it.

Steven M. looks at the latest Republican attempt to gin up something out of nothing once more all over again.

PoliticalProf stuffs Republiconomics in a peanut shell (like a peanut, it has two kernels).

The forces of truth, justice, and the American way win another skirmish against the Republican gut-out-the-vote movement.

Wisconsin’s voter ID law suffered another welcome blow Tuesday when a federal judge struck it down, ruling that it violated the Voting Rights Act and the Constitution. The law, ruled Judge Lynn Adelman, “results in the denial or abridgment of the right of black and Latino citizens to vote on account of race or color.”

As we’ve argued for years, Adelman found that there really isn’t any voter fraud in Wisconsin that a voter photo ID could address — one of the key arguments of supporters of the law.

The story goes on to inform us that the forces of disenfranchisement plan to regroup and counter-attack.

A bit of good news in Pennsyltucky.

A Commonwealth Court judge on Monday denied the Corbett administration’s request to reconsider his ruling overturning the state’s two-year-old voter identification law.

In a 29-page decision, Judge Bernard L. McGinley said the law requiring Pennsylvania voters to produce photo ID at the polls failed “to provide liberal access to compliant photo ID” and, as a result, disenfranchised voters.

“The evidence showed the voter ID provisions at issue deprive numerous electors of their fundamental right to vote, so vital to our democracy,” wrote McGinley, who struck down the law in January.

Details at the link.

The Booman explains the wingnut wurlitzer.

Facing South dissects yet another lie.

Some Republican lies are so outrageous that you have to wonder whether Republicans themselves actually believe what’s coming out of their mouths or whether they are just willing to say whatever they can to con the rubes.

This is one of them.

Bob Cesca counts the lies.

Republicans lie because truth leans left.

In the midst of a piece primarily about demographic patterns, Clarence Page looks below the surface of the Republican gut-out-the-vote movement.

Still, the diversity target is easy and tempting, so Republicans are aggressively pushing voter ID laws. As Politico reported last year, according to a recent study:

“Significantly more minority youths age 18-29 were asked to show identification than white youths: 72.9 percent of black youths were asked for ID, compared with 60.8 percent of Latino youths and 50.8 percent of white youths. Even in states where there are no voter ID laws on the books, 65.5 percent of black youths were asked to show ID at the polls, compared with 55.3 percent of Latino youths and 42.8 percent of white youths.”

Racial bias — sometimes subtle, always sinister — is alive and well.