Republican Hypocrisy category archive
Twits on Twitter 0
Afterthought:
I find it amusing when persons try to explain that events clearly founded in racism really aren’t racist after all because, well, they won’t believe their lyin’ eyes..
The Art of the Con 0
Paul Krugman comments on the “populism” that isn’t. A snippet:
Follow the link to see why he said that.
The Carolina Coup d’Etat, Evaluation 0
Failing the test:
Indeed, North Carolina does so poorly on the measures of legal framework and voter registration, that on those indicators we rank alongside Iran and Venezuela. When it comes to the integrity of the voting district boundaries no country has ever received as low a score as the 7/100 North Carolina received. North Carolina is not only the worst state in the USA for unfair districting but the worst entity in the world ever analyzed by the Electoral Integrity Project.
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing.
Cthulu would quail at the sight of it.
Tunes for the Times 0
And now a big hand for Questionable Mark and the Austerians!
The Bully’s Pulpit 0
TPM points out that the Great Shakedown is under way.
All that Was Old Is New Again, Throwing Granny under the Bus Dept. 0
Thom points out, almost in passing, a truism: “Big lies are always based on small facts.”
Carolina Coup d’Etat 0
Republicans in North Carolina demonstrate that they no longer believe in elections as they attempt to neuter the governorship because their guy didn’t win.
One more time, any experiment can fail, even a noble one.
Chartering a Course for Disaster 0
Kim Shroeder, President of the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association, warns of the Devostiture of public education.
A Common Thread 0
Shaun Mullen finds an eerie similarity in certain recent events. Here’s a snippet:
We also were told to buck up and move on when:
- The Reagan administration secretly sent weapons to Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism, in 1985 as part of the Iran-Contra scheme. Reagan couldn’t be impeached, we were told, because America was still getting over Nixon and Watergate although only a few years later Bill Clinton would be impeached for a blowjob.
- The Supreme Court in 2000 jumped the extra-constitutional shark and meddled in a presidential election, ruling that the winner was George Bush, who “won” because the Republican-controlled election apparatus in Florida was as fixed as the high court majority turned out to be.
- The very moral foundations of our democracy were subverted by a secret post-9/11 program of dark-site prisons and the use of Nazi torture techniques no matter if the victims weren’t terrorists, which they often were not. This yielded no valid intelligence but did tank America’s standing abroad.
Is it merely a coincidence that all of these outrages were perpetrated by Republicans?
Do please read the rest.
Michigan Nestles in the Poisoning of Flint 0
The government of Michigan chooses profits over people.
This is what happens when you “run the government like a business.”
Closing the Corridors of Power 0
Gene Nichol sees an ominous trend in the behavior of North Carolina’s Republican Party (emphasis added).
(snip)
The Republican General Assembly has not been content to merely enact its substantive policy choices to stamp an imprint on life in North Carolina. It has moved repeatedly to reject the pillars and infrastructure of democratic governance.
Follow the link to find out why he says that.
Afterthought:
It’s not just in North Carolina, folks.
Dr. Consiglieri’s Cabinet 0
Once again, the Charlotte Observer observes:
Follow the link to find out what they made that observation.
MIA 0
Remember all those teabaggers who demonstrated against the Affordable Care Act carrying signs that said, “Hands off my Medicare”?
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Rekha Basu notes the Republican Party’s willingness to tolerate intolerance among its own. A snippet:
Distressingly, she goes on to indulge in a little pro forma bothsiderism, but the column is worth a read.