Republican Hypocrisy category archive
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
The Portland Press-Herald’s Bill Nemitz calls Maine Republicans’ hypocrisy in these viral times. A nugget:
And now, the party that serves as an incubator for so much misinformation and bile is suddenly wringing its hands that Mills may have infected her fellow Democrats? They lament that the governor, by inadvertently being exposed to COVID-19 and following every rule and recommendation to the letter in the days since, suddenly represents “a major health risk that must be dealt with at once?”
Courting Disasters 0
In denying Pennsylvania Republicans’ efforts to retroactively exclude mail-in (aka, “absentee”) ballots from the tally of the recent election, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court went so far as to use the word “farcical” in their ruling.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Afterthought:
For a humane take on this “nation of immigrants,” see the marvelous article by the Des Moines Register’s Reka Basu. Here’s a bit:
Diminished Expectations 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., had a bit of hope in these Trumpled times. He has it no more.
But I must admit that prior to this I did harbor some tiny, flickering expectation that, if pushed to the limit, the Republican Party, the party always lecturing the rest of us on patriotism, would stand up for the country. I did expect — or maybe it was just a vestigial hope — that when rubber met road, the GOP would finally put America . . . ahem, first.
Well, call it expectation or call it hope, but it’s dead. And it died, quite literally, in silence.
Follow the link for the rest.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Field says enough is enough.
The Liar of the Land 0
In a fascinating article at the Idaho State Journal, Leonard Hitchcock explores Donald Trump’s relationship, if you can so dignify it, with truth. A snippet:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Courting Disasters 0
The writers for Night Court would have considered this too outrageous to attempt.
A Tune for the Times 0
Over at Balloon Juice.
The Art of the Con 0
Brian Greenspun explores the scam. A snippet (emphasis added):
What also isn’t working is this American democracy, which used to pride itself as the one country on earth that exalts the peaceful and orderly transfer of power from one president to the next. It isn’t working because public servants who take an oath to uphold the Constitution — those folks would be the Republicans in the U.S. Senate who used to care about such things as our democratic norms — are AWOL.
