Republican Hypocrisy category archive

I predict they’ll patch it up for the sake of the tyke take.

Via Job’s Anger.

In the Des Moines Register, Rehka Basu discusses what she considers the primary learning from Donald Trump’s payoff to Stormy Daniels:

Legal analysts are focusing on Trump’s criminal liability, if any, as the story shifts away from campaign finances being used. But the more compelling story today is that the president we already know to boast of disrespecting women has now firmly established himself as a liar. And he will secretly spend vast sums of money to make an appearance problem go away.

Of course, anyone who has followed Donald Trump’s career even casually already knew tha–oh, never mind.

Rudy Guiliani’s ring around the rosy at Fox News raised a lot of eyebrows.

Both Elie Mystal and Mike Littwinn have considered it and reached somewhat different and not incompatible conclusions.

What I have concluded is that Rudy’s boogaloo is not directed at the public at large, but is a PR campaign directed to Fox News and its dupes, symps, and fellow travelers; to Republican Congresspersons; and to Trump’s hardcore of true believers, who have shown themselves willing to believe anything, everything he says, even as his statements directly contradict themselves from minute to minute.

They are intended to concrete the con of the conned.

I fear rough seas ahead.

Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?

Syntax error corrected.

Paul Krugman explains why the Republican mania for tax cuts has led to teachers’ protests.

A snippet, describing what happens when Republicans cut state taxes into the bone, requiring cutbacks in services to balance state budgets:

How, after all, can governments save money on education? They can reduce the number of teachers, but that means larger class sizes, which will outrage parents. They can and have cut programs for students with special needs, but cruelty aside, that can only save a bit of money at the margin. The same is true of cost-saving measures like neglecting school maintenance and scrimping on school supplies to the point that many teachers end up supplementing inadequate school budgets out of their own pockets.

So what conservative state governments have mainly done is squeeze teachers themselves.

Now, teaching kids was never a way to get rich. However, being a schoolteacher used to put you solidly in the middle class, with a decent income and benefits. In much of the country, however, that is no longer true.

Aside:

It’s ironic, in a way, how the Republican belief that there is no such thing as the common good leads to there being no such thing as the common good.

Via Juanita Jean.

Thom explains to a right-wing caller that a legally-obtained, well-founded search warrant is not a violation of civil liberties; indeed, itt is rather the epitome of them. (The conversation gets a bit contentious towards the end, but remains civil.)

Thom steps back and looks at the big picture.

Jay Bookman.