Republican Lies category archive

Gutting out the vote in Ohio.

At my local rag, Darryl Lease considers the latest tactic of the Republican Gut Out the Vote effort.

Dick Polman thinks it’s because they keep getting away with it.

The latest mendacious whopper about the health reform law – supposedly, it’s gonna throw two million people outta work! – will likely beneft the GOP on midterm election day. It doesn’t matter that the claim is a blatant lie; what matters is that the ginned-up conservative base is conditioned to believe it.

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I once overheard one of my neighbors say to someone, “[Redacted], every other word out of your mouth is a lie.” (And he was correct, but that’s another story.)

And that person wasn’t even a Republican.

Via C&L.

Via C&L.

The lies, followed by the truth.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

The three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and Republican talking points.

Kansas gets creative in the art of disenfranchisement.

Why are Republicans so frightened of the electorate?

(Yeah, I know. The question answers itself.)

The Republican Party spins a fantasy world. Sadly, their base likes to fantasize.

Media Matters looks back at news coverage of the Affordable Care Act during 2013 and finds it wanting:

And this surprises you how?

Two University of Massachusetts Boston academics — Keith G. Bentele, an assistant professor of Sociology, and Erin O’Brien, an associate professor of Political Science — recently published a paper looking at the proposal and passage of restrictive voter access legislation from 2006 to 2011. In the paper, titled “Jim Crow 2.0? Why States Consider and Adopt Restrictive Voter Access Policies,” the authors conclude that restrictive voter measures are connected to both partisan and racial factors.

“We looked at proposed and passage over this period, and we looked at just 2011 specifically,” Bentele told TPM in an interview this week. “And you have this consistent emergence — over and over and over — these partisan and racial factors are the most strongly associated with these outcomes.”

More at the link.

Below the fold because it autoplays.

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Dick Polman wonders why Republicans fell for the patently false wingnut charge that President Obama is closing the U. S. Embassy to the Vatican (he’s not, never was, never would) and why Republicans are so susceptible to lies and lying liars.

Hopefully, on some not too distant day, a smart historian with a degree in psychology will look back on this era and analyze why so many conservatives have become allergic to factual reality. This psychosis has manifested itself so often – among the birthers, the skeet shoot paranoids, the Gettysburg truthers, the list is endless – that one is tempted to simply ignore the behavior. But no. In the name of rationalism, it needs to be called out.

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Get out the bucks, gut out the vote.

Dick Polman on the latest wingnut tizzy in a teapot:

Since Abe’s assassination, there have been 27 presidents. Care to guess how many of them have participated in Gettysburg anniversary ceremonies? I’ll save you the time. Here’s the answer:

One.

That was William Howard Taft, in 1909.

And it bears noting that a goodly part of the Republican Party wishes that the other side had won the Battle of Gettysburg anyhoo.

More tales to tantrums at the link.