Republican Hypocrisy category archive
It’s Cultastic 0
Shaun Mullen explains an analogy (I remember boning up on analogies for my SATs):
Full Disclosure:
The explanation is Shaun’s. The analogy is mine.
The Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to co-opt Tibetan Buddhism is of a piece with the Republican Party’s attempt to co-opt Christianity. Both are attempts to hoodwink persons of faith–however misguided that faith may be–for earthly power; both are contemptible for their crude, craven, and manipulative cynicism.
I wonder whether Republicans can recognize or admit how similar their tactics are to those of the Chinese Reds? Can they see themselves in the mirr–oh, never mind.
Cavalcade of Stupid (Updated) 2
Truth in Labeling 0
The Kraken is all for it. Here are a few of his examples:
None Dare Call It Treason . . . 0
. . . but it’s hardly unprecedented. Thom reviews the history of Repubican politicization of foreign polity, then invites a Republican to try defend it.
Watch the Republican spin it like a top.
“If You Don’t Say It, It Ain’t So” 0
From the Republican Department of If-You-Don’t-Talk-about-It-It-Will-Go-Away:
“We were told not to use the terms ‘climate change,’ ‘global warming’ or ‘sustainability,’ ” said Christopher Byrd, an attorney with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Office of General Counsel in Tallahassee from 2008 to 2013. “That message was communicated to me and my colleagues by our superiors.”
Management denies that there was a “policy,” which is I suspect is bureaucratese for “no one was stupid enough to put this in writing.”
How Republicans Give the People the Business 0
Jason Stanford explains the con; follow the link for the rest:
Oh, who are we kidding? “Running government like a business” is something politicians tell voters to trick them into letting politicians run government any way they please.
Via Progressive Populist.
Breaking an Impasse 0
Jon Stewart discusses Republicans scaredy cats scare tactics.
Video below the fold in case it autoplays.
Chris-Crossed 0
Alfred Doblin doesn’t think Chris Christie is serious about his attempts to “reform” (Christie’s term, not mine–ed.) New Jersey’s pension laws.
But the facade is cracking, and that explains the pension war. The governor may say he intends to win this battle, but his actions say otherwise. He doesn’t need to win it, only to declare it to grab the attention of conservatives.
The overarching problem in pension-world is not retirees who expect to receive the pensions that they were promised. It’s companies and governments who promised the pensions, then failed to provide for them.
Employees kept their promises to come to work and do their jobs. Employers broke their promises and now would penalize employees for daring to expect a solvent retirement, while the companies and governments face no penalties for their pension lies.
Chartering a Course for Disaster 0
The Roanoke Times calls out the Virginia Republican Party for (guess what?) hypocrisy, this time on schools. A snippet:
Or put another way, it would allow Richmond to tell local governments how to run their school systems.
That runs contrary to how conservatives such as Obenshain generally think schools should be operated. Ordinarily, they believe schools should be run locally, with few mandates from Richmond and even fewer, if any, from Washington.
So why the philosophical about-face here? Because it appears to be the only way to accomplish another conservative goal: The creation of more charter schools.
In Republican land, putting public money in private hands outweighs using it for the public good six days a week and twice on Sundays.
Q. Where’s a Good Place for Breakfast? 0
A. Try the new Rand Paul waffle house.
Both Sides Not 0
Driftglass dissects the unified Confederacy of Denial. A nugget (emphasis added):
He is writing it for the several thousand members of the Beltway Club who still go to bed at night a little worried that someday, somehow, someone might show up and demand that they be publicly brought to book for the shit they said and did back when it looked like the Age of Dubya would last forever and so nothing they said, no matter how loathsome or disgraceful or false would ever come back to haunt them.
But the Age of Dubya did come crashing down. And ever since then our Beltway Media — led by Bush Regime cheerleaders and dead-enders like David Brooks — has adopted a strategy of locking arms in a unified Confederacy of Denial.
Do please follow the link and rest the whole thing. It’s worth the three minutes.
In Spite of Evidence 0
Paul Krugman wonders:
The question, as I said at the beginning, is why. Why the dogmatism? Why the rage? And why do these issues go together, with the set of people insisting that climate change is a hoax pretty much the same as the set of people insisting that any attempt at providing universal health insurance must lead to disaster and tyranny?
Follow the link for his answer.