Republican Hypocrisy category archive
The Rule of Lawless 0
The San Franscisco Chronicle’s John Diaz points out that the bad guys are already inside the building.
“What They Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Us,” Reprise 0
E. J. Montini suggests a motive for Trump’s firing (so far five) Inspectors-General.
If you never allowed yourself to be examined by a doctor would that mean you’d never get sick?
That’s how Donald Trump wants to run the federal government.
Immunity Impunity
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At Above the Law, Elizabeth Dye takes a look at the recent firing of the State Department’s Inspector-General. A snippet:
Survey Coarse 0
At The Roanoke Times, Dan Casey writes of a recent “survey”* from the Republican Party that he received in the mail.
Just follow the link.
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*That is, a fund raising request in sheep’s clothing.
Fed Up 0
Long-time Alabama Republican John Meredith (who happens to be not white) has had enough. Here’s a bit from his article at AL.com:
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
Two Misdirection Plays for the Price of One, Going Viral Dept. 0
Trudy Rubin skewers Donald Trump’s attempt to pass all the bucks to China.
Will Bunch lampoons Trump’s attempt to himself into a reality-TV parody of a “wartime president.”
Read ’em both.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice rounds up a flock of flummery about Attorney-General Barr’s decision not to prosecute confessed criminal Michael Flynn.
Fact Checking Is Work 0
David parses the persiflage, after pointing out that it takes longer to disprove the lies than it does to repeat the lies.
Experiments fail, even noble ones.
Sacrificed for by Your Country
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I would have phrased it somewhat more circumspectly–well, a lot more circumspectly–but methinks Atrios may be onto something.
Misdirection Play, Covidiot Dept. 0
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Robert Field explains that the persons protesting for states to “reopen” are misdirected to the wrong culprit. An excerpt (emphasis added):
Individual states are not and were never equipped to defend the nation from a global threat. That’s why the framers of the Constitution created the federal government. Asking the states to lead the fight against COVID-19 is like asking them to defend the country from a military threat. Imagine FDR announcing after Pearl Harbor that each state was on its own to fend off the armies of Germany and Japan.