Republican Hypocrisy category archive
Hoist on the Elmer Gantry 0
In a Pencesive Mood 0
Timothy Egan is not impressed by Vice President Pence’s conduct during his tenure in office.
(snip)
Pence’s response ( to the recent gun massacre in Texas–ed.) “We grieve with you and stand with resolve against evil,” he said. I’ll grant him the grieving part. But the resolve has translated into squat. His best solution to the scourge of mass killings, as he told heartbroken families in Texas, is more prayer.
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“In the Biblical Way” 0
Dick Polman has more on the Republican Party’s perverse response to purported perversion. A nugget:
Why? Because they say the Bible says so.
Follow the link for Polman’s analysis of the Republican Party’s novel interpretation of the scriptures.
Let the Massacres Continue 0
Daniel Ruth excoriates the response of Donald Trump and many others to the most recent American gun massacre. If his column sounds kind of tired, the words “most recent” in the preceding sentence may give you a hint as to why. Here’s a snippet (emphasis added):
Even more bizarrely, Trump expressed astonishment that a gunman could enter a church in rural Texas and kill 26 people. “Who would think a thing like this could ever happen?” he wondered.
To answer Trump’s question there in second paragraph, anyone who pays freaking attention to the headlines, for Pete’s sake.
This is the very picture of weaponized imbecility.
The Axman Cometh 0
Paul Krugman has the details. Here’s a nugget:
Oh, wait — did you think I was talking about Donald Trump? I’m talking about Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, an obvious phony who nonetheless convinced the rubes — that is, much of the news media and the political establishment — that he was a brilliant fiscal expert. What we’re witnessing now is the end of the charade, the political equivalent of what happened when graduates of Trump University tried to get some value in return for their money.
Tax Cheats 0
Jay Bookman considers Republican justifications for tax “reform” and finds them questionable.
Suffer the Children 0
Mike wonders why Republicans and their vocally self-proclained “Christian” supporters are willing to condemn children to sickness and death through their failure to renew CHIP. (Warning: Language.)
AWOL 0
Brian Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, remarks on the timidity and perfidy of those few Republicans who have dared protest the Trumpling of the Republican Party. He speaks directly of Senators Flack and Corker A nugget:
OK, that would be fine I suppose in another world. But in Trump’s world, when the people who profess a modicum of sanity are forced out of the asylum, that leaves the certifiable ones in charge.
Do please read the rest.
Suffer the Children 0
It’s not scripture. It’s policy.
Double Jeopardy 0
Solomon Jones sees a tell in how Trump has responded to Myeshia Johnson, the pregnant widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, one of the soldiers who fell in Niger. A snippet (emphasis added).
Myeshia Johnson is both. Therefore, it seems, she is unworthy of the respect that Trump afforded Navy widow Carryn Owens when Trump led Congress in two minutes of applause for Owens during his State of the Union address.
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(Link fixed.)
IOKIYR, Niger Dept. 0
Badtux explains the difference in the tunes played on the Wingnut Wurlitzer for Americans who in Benghazi vs. those who died in Niger.
He also has a nice summary of why American soldiers were in Niger in the first place.
“Think of the Bakeries” 0
Redacted Tonight discusses how the religious right is attempting to leverage the recent hurricanes so it can suckle at the public teat.
Warning: Language.