Republican Lies category archive

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.

TPM reports that facts have overtaken Republicans’ favorite lies about the Affordable Care Act.

Will Republicans notice? I suspect not. Facts are meaningless in Wingnut World.

Addendum:

An unskewed primal scream.

Remember these rules, which I have learned from experience (no, I did not used to be so cynical–I just paid attention):

Rule One: Don’t believe anything Republicans say.

Rule Two: If in doubt, consult Rule One.

Via Raw Story.

North Carolina continues to gut out the vote.

Election officials closed early voting sites at Appalachian State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in favor of off-campus locations, saying voting sites should be more geographically situated across the county.

(snip)

“You’re talking about a town in which 60 percent of the voters are located in a pretty narrow area,” she (Allison Riggs, a voting rights attorney with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice–ed.) said. “Counties need to know there needs to be a rational basis for this decision. They can’t just try to stick it to young voters, stick it to college students.”

It’s a strategy craven in its simplicity. If you think that they won’t vote for you, don’t let them vote.

Republicans gin up another phony Affordable Care Act horror story.

In fact, she (the subject of the phony horror story) told me yesterday that she’s quite happy with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and with the “affordable” health care it helped her find.

“Not only do I not agree with what the image is portraying,” Helene wrote me, “I actually have Affordable Healthcare!”

So, if anything, Helene is an Obamacare success story.

But that didn’t stop over 17,000 people on Facebook from sharing an image of her face, posted just days ago, with a caption complaining about Obamacare. To add insult to injury, the people who stole her image couldn’t even spell “conspiracy” right.

It’s neither a crime nor even a misstep.

It’s a lifestyle.

We went out to a local restaurant last night. One television was tuned to sports; the other, to Fox (the volume was off on both, thank heavens). I was facing the Fox News one, from which, I could tell from the crawls, the anchorblonde was vomiting lie after lie.

Shaun Mullen explains how it works. A nugget:

The Republican playbook has been simple:

* Avoid abstract ideas and appeal to the emotions.
* Constantly repeat just a few ideas by using stereotyped phrases.
* Always give only one side of the argument.
* Continuously criticize your opponents.
* Pick out one “enemy” in particular for special vilification.

This playbook would be immediately recognizable to students of the Third Reich. It was employed, almost word for word, with insidious effectiveness by Joseph Goebbels, Adolph Hitler’s minister of propaganda.

Read the rest.

Via Juanita Jean.

Calling the roll.