Republican Hypocrisy category archive

Aside:

It has been my experience (and I have been unemployed, though I was lucky enough never to have to collect unemployment) that persons are almost never unemployed by choice, but almost always by circumstance.

The notion that persons can live satisfactorily on unemployment benefits is a fiction propagated by the rich and heartless.

Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.

The Department of Commerce is attempting to screw with skew the census. Here’s a bit from the report. I’ve emphasized their lamer excuse, which almost implies that they are doing their arithmetic by hand:

The Census Bureau is ending all counting efforts for the 2020 census on Sept. 30, a month shorter than previously announced, the bureau’s director confirmed Monday in a statement. That includes critical door-knocking efforts and collecting responses online, over the phone and by mail.

The latest updates to the bureau’s plans are part of efforts to “accelerate the completion of data collection and apportionment counts by our statutory deadline of December 31, 2020, as required by law and directed by the Secretary of Commerce,” who oversees the bureau, Director Steven Dillingham said in the written statement posted on the bureau’s website.

These last-minute changes to the constitutionally mandated count of every person living in the U.S. threaten the accuracy of population numbers used to determine the distribution of political representation and federal funding for the next decade.

Via Job’s Anger.

What Atrios said.

Experiments fail, even noble ones.

Via Job’s Anger.

Nancy LeTourneau exposes the hypocrisy of Republicans’ charges of “cancel culture” as a ploy to distract from objective criticism of objectionable speech. Her argument is long and complex and defies summary. Just go read it for yourself.

One more time, freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

Elizabeth Dye reports that, though he may be popular on the Fox News circuit, William Barr has occasioned much discontent within the legal profession, which is less than amused by his (mis)conduct. She cites a letter from 27 distinguished lawyers (to quote her characterization) to the D. C. Bar Association calling for disbarring Barr. Here’s a quotation from that letter:

Mr. Barr’s client is the United States, and not the President. Yet, Mr. Barr has consistently made decisions and taken action to serve the personal and political self-interests of President Donald Trump, rather than the interest of the United States.

Follow the link for the full report.

Via Job’s Anger.