Republican Hypocrisy category archive
“Words Mean What I Want Them To Mean” 0
E. J. Dionne considers our Humpty-Dumpty President’s laughable label as a “Populist.” A nugget:
In a season of dispiriting tidings, few habits have been more infuriating than the ease with which political commentators of all stripes have applied the P-word to him. Trump has courted this with old-fashioned union hall rhetoric about his devotion to “hard-working men and women.” He claimed during his campaign that he would end tax breaks that helped the rich, rip up trade treaties and be vigilant against the flight of jobs to China — pronouncing its name in a menacing way.
But as is the case with everything involving Trump, his words had no connection to thought. They were all about the effect they would have. Trump had warned us about this in best-sellers where he admitted that he uses words primarily to get the deal he wants.
“The Party of Personal Responsibility” 0
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In related news, Dick Polman dissects the hypocrisy.
Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.
The Missing Piece (Updated) 0
The reason Republicans are so determined to repeal the ACA, which they chose to dub “Obamacare,” is quite simple.
They cannot stand that the Black Guy did it.
Via Job’s Anger.
Addendum, Later That Same Day:
Josh Marshall comments on ACA repeal passing the House (emphasis added):
That’s the Iron Law: the ‘GOP moderates’ will always cave.
More at the link.
Afterthought:
In order to have a “crisis of conscience,” you must first have a conscience.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Cassandram looks back on Donald Trump’s first 100 days in a post aptly–and distressingly–entitled 100 Days of White Supremacy.
Read it.
Then weep.
Suffer the Children 0
It’s not scripture, it’s GOP policy.
Responsible Fiscals 0
Warning: Language.
Ryan’s Derp 0
It’s Last Week several nights ago, but John Oliver’s take on it is priceless (Warning: Language).
Republican Family Values . . . 0
. . . have never been anything other than a con for the rubes.
Forensics, Schmorensics 0
Elie Mystal comments on Attorney-General Sessions’s decision to abolish the the National Commission on Forensic Science, created by President Obama just a few years ago to raise standards for forensic science. In the light of the work of the Innocence Project and similar groups, those standards seem sorely in need of raising, or maybe of being created in the first place(PDF from Virginia Law Review). Here’s an excerpt from Mystal’s post: