Republican Hypocrisy category archive
The Silence of the (on the) Lams 0
The Maine Beacon reports on why Congressman Bruce Poliquin (R–Don’t Talk to Me) refuses to hold town halls or answer questions from reporters.
“Do I talk to the national media? Not often. I’ve been dying to do what you want me to do. Dying to do it, but we’ve got to be very – it would be stupid for me to engage the national media and give them and everyone else the ammunition they need and we lose this seat. We have to be really careful,” said the congressweasel.
Via The Bangor Daily News, which manages not to use the term “Congressweasel” in its story. It contents itself with pointing out that
Poliquin said there are so many reporters who want to ask him questions and they want him, a congressman, to allow his words to be reported so that everyone can read them. That’s not something he wants.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Dick Polman ruminates on Texas Republicans’ actions followinng Hurricane Harvey. A snippet:
It’s been a while since we’ve enjoyed a carnival Cruz.
In January 2013, when Congress readied a $50-billion Sandy recovery package, 36 Republican senators — including Texas’ John Cornyn and Ted Cruz — voted to reject it. Those are the same senators, who, in the wake of Harvey, wrote a letter begging the federal government “to provide any and all emergency protective measures.”
On Monday, when Cruz was on MSNBC pleading for his “any and all” Harvey recovery package, he was asked about his thumbs-down Sandy vote. In response, he insisted that “the bill was filled with unrelated pork. Two-thirds of that bill had nothing to do with Sandy.”
Cruz lied.
Wall-Eyed 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Constance Scharff points out one of the many fundamental flaws in Donald Trump’s fulminations about a border wall, this one about its ability to deter somehow magickally cure the epidemic of opioid (remember, when Not White persons use it, it’s called heroin) addiction. Here’s a key bit; follow the link for the rest:
A wall – to keep drugs or people out – doesn’t address the fundamental problem that we face. Opioid addiction wasn’t born out of an influx of drugs into the country. It was born out of an internal problem of overprescribing drugs that are unsafe for long-term use. Law enforcement aimed at international drug cartels does nothing to address this.
But, in the Trumpled world, pointing the finger at others, especially if they are brown, is always so much more satisfying than accepting responsibility, is it not?
A Question of Identity 0
In a larger column about the apparent survival of the Affordable Care Act, despite Mitch McConnell’s machinations, Paul Krugman serves up this gem:
Follow the link for the rest.
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
Jim Wright examines the delusions of Republicans and their apologists who keep hoping that Donald Trump will act like anyone else but Donald Trump. An excerpt:
All the warning signs were there, the sexist behavior, the tempter tantrums, the bruises and the black eyes, but they thought, you know, once we’re married he’ll come around, he’ll be okay, he’ll stop acting like this.
But Donald Trump is the very same guy today that he was yesterday, that he was two years ago, that he was a decade ago.
Donald Trump is the same horrible person he’s been his entire life.
He’s an obnoxious, ignorant, abusive blowhard enabled by wealth and privilege and if you think for one minute the power of the presidency is going to do anything but exacerbate that, then you are a goddamned fool.
Or a Republican.
Under the Sheets 0
In an article about the failed attempts to repeal the ACA, Solomon Jones skewers the innate hypocrisy of contemporary Republicanism. A snippet:
Read the rest.
Trumpling the Art of the Con 0
Tony Norman thinks that Donald Trump may have gone one con too many. A snippet (follow the link for the rest; it is worth your while):
Methinks Mr. Norman waxes optimistic. Trump’s true believers, even among the punditocracy, will continue to believe the con because they want to believe (and their paychecks depend on their believing, or, at least, on professing that belief).
If they were willing to see through the smokescreen, they would have done so years ago.
In Contempt of the (Scout) Law 0
Daniel Ruth parses Donald Trump’s speech to the Boy Scouts. A snippet:
Much more at the link.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Elie Mystal comments on Attorney-General Sessions’s latest strategy to foster racism and bigotry. A snippet:
It’s like saying “the races shouldn’t swim together, so I’m going to pull the lifeguards until all the non-segregated pools are forced to close down.” Even if you agreed with the disgusting point, making everybody less safe is the worst possible way to force everybody backwards.
“Baby, You Know You Wanted It” 0
In the Des Moines Register, Rekha Basu questions Betsy DeVos’s campaign to make campus rape great again.
The Court Is in Sessions 0
Will Bunch muses whether “civil asset forfeiture” can be applied to Jeff Sessions for his lying under oath, as no conviction is required to take someone’s stuff. Here’s a bit:
When Democratic Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota asked Sessions a fairly straight-forward question about reports of links between the Trump campaign and Moscow, the future AG volunteered: “I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians.” It turns out, as Sessions later conceded in a follow-up written statement, he’d met with the Russian ambassador, Sergei Kislyak. Twice, he insisted — and he doesn’t remember much what they talked about but it wasn’t really the Trump campaign. Honest. Now investigators are probing whether there was at least a third meeting that Sessions didn’t report even when he tried to clear up that first false statement.