Republican Hypocrisy category archive
The Rule of Lawless 0
Thom comments on Trump’s pardon of his violence-prone fanboys the January 6th insurrectionists.
This topic was also discussed in somewhat more detail on Thursday’s episode of The Bob Cesca Show.
I have listened to Bob’s podcast almost since its beginning–certainly since its first year–and commend it to your attention.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, retired DEA agent Robert Mazur shares his thoughts.
Humpty-Dumpties 0
Shorter PoliticalProf: To right-wingers, the Constitution means what they want it to mean.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Donald Trump, a second-generation American citizen who benefited from Americans’ constitutional right to birthright citizenship, wants to strip away the right to birthright citizenship.
At Above the Law, Elie Mystal reprises an article laying bare the underlying intent. A snippet:
Today’s Republican Party has truly become the party of the New Secesh, as America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the doctrine of racism created to rationalize it continue to wield their curse.
The Privatization Scam 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Randyu Sttapilus argues that it’s all about the Benjamins.
Missing in Inaction 0
The Editorial Board of my local rag looks at statements by a number of Republican regarding the fires in California and editorializes that
Withholding relief from California fire victims would be unconscionable
The editorial itself is behind the paywall, but its title summarizes it nicely.
But that leads to a larger question:
- Where is the evidence that today’s Republican Party has a conscience?
Still Rising Again after All These Years,
Republican Thought Police Dept.
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Scott Maxwell parses the perfidy of Florida AG Ashley Moody.
No excerpt or summary can do his article justice. Just go read it.
Tax and Spin 0
The Arizona Republc’s E. J. Montini decodes de code. A snippet:
That is how legitimate news operations described what the council did, anyway.
The Goldwater folks, taking a page from the playbook of what they themselves might call “fake news,” put out a press release under a headline reading: “Goldwater Sues To Stop Gilbert’s ‘Illegal’ Pickleball Tax.”
Follow the link for a description of the decryption.
Courting Disaster 0
Yet more Cannon law.
Four Years Later . . . . 0
Steve M. looks back at how the right tried to muddy muddied the waters about what actually happened on January 6, 2021.
It’s not pretty.
And, along those lines, PoliticalProf notes an irony.
Afterthought:
As my old professor of the early federal period was fond of saying, “History is irony.”
This is a particularly bitter one.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
In the midst of a long article about how the next few years are likely to be–er–difficult, the Rude One presents what methinks is an apt description of the current who-shot-John over H1B visas in the Republican Party: