Republican Hypocrisy category archive

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier tries to pick the Republican talking point of the week and finds it a challenge.

Thanks to Richard Nixon’s odious southern strategy, the Republican Party has transformed itself into the Party of the Secesh, and, like the Secesh, would rip asunder the nation.

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The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini responds to those question why he opposes the Arizona’s Senate’s “recount” of Maricopa County’s Presidential election results, if he believes (as he does) that there was no tomfoolery in the first place. A nugget; follow the link for the rest.

If you had severe coronary problems, you’d probably believe in heart surgery. But you wouldn’t want it performed by a butcher from the local supermarket who happened to be your wife’s former boyfriend and the guy she dumped to marry you.

Sasha Abramsky rounds up a list of new liberty limits from around the nation and considers the implications thereof. A snippet:

As the GOP passes ever-more expansive rules aimed at sabotaging the electoral process, democracy advocates are growing increasingly concerned that these laws will scare away not only potential voters but also critical numbers of poll workers, the vast majority of whom are citizen-volunteers, as well as salaried officials who have spent decades building up knowledge of how the often-arcane election machinery in their counties and states works.

Where I used to live, I had neighbors who regularly volunteered as poll workers. It meant 16-hour days, which they gave freely because they believed in democratic ideals and the concept of the common good, things the Republican Party appears to have abandoned.

The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini wonders why the Republican leadership is dead-set against a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 invasion of the Capitol. Here’s a bit of his article; follow the link for the rest.

This is puzzling.

Ever since the insurrection of Jan. 6 at the nation’s Capitol there have been accusations by Republicans that the mob was not made up of Trump-inspired seditionists but had somehow been manipulated by “the left” and infiltrated by antifa or Black Lives Matter and it was them who got folks all riled up.

Arizona’s crank-in-chief, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar, has called the insurrectionists “peaceful patriots” and during an appearance on a right-wing online program actually suggested that House Democratic leadership “aided and abetted” the rioters.

OK then.

Here was a chance to prove it.

(Misplet wrod correxed.)

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