Republican Hypocrisy category archive
“Family Values Republicans” = Endless Amusement 0
Now comes the Regent, another “Family Values Republican” whose self-vaunted “family values” are revealed as a sounding brass, a tinkling cymbal, signifying nothing.
Today the Regent says, “I don’t blame my wife,” even as he blames his wife.
Remember, in Republican World, “Family Values” are not values.
They are tactics.
Jim Crow v. 2.0 0
Juan Cole wonders whether the bigots, empowered by Nixon’s odious Southern Strategy (now relabed the “Tea Party”) and the Roberts Supreme Court, may have succeeded in rolling back the most important gain of the Civil Rights Movement.
Read it.
And weep.
War and Rumors of War 2
Eugene Robinson comments on Alabama (it would be Alabama, woudn’t it) Congressman Mo Brooks farcical claim that President Obama and the Democrats are waging a “war on whites.”
But maybe not. Maybe Brooks has fully bought into the paranoid myth of white victimhood that gives the opposition to Obama and his policies such an edge of nastiness and desperation.
I do not believe it can be a coincidence that this notion of whites somehow being under attack is finding new expression — not just in Brooks’ explicit words but in the euphemistic language of many others as well — at a time when the first black president lives in the White House.
The myth of victimhood is not new. Long after it was understood that slavery was morally wrong, Southern whites justified its perpetuation by citing the fear that blacks, once liberated, would surely take bloody revenge against those who had held them in bondage. Jim Crow laws and lynchings had a similar purpose. In the minds of his assassins, 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed to protect the flower of Southern womanhood.
The myth surfaces whenever Obama comments on race.
Feeding that sense of victimhood has been one of the prime tactics of white supremacists, both thet blatant ones and the subtle ones, over the centuries. So long as they can maintain an “us and them” mentality, they can keep themselves in power. As Lyndon Johnson said
Read the rest.
Empty Suits 0
Daniel Ruth considers the House Republicans’ decision to sue President Obama for daring to do his job. A nugget:
Amid all the fife-and-drum weeping and wailing, Obama was accused of being a lawless tyrannical dictator stripping Americans of their freedoms in his pursuit of raw, imperial power. Ooooh, this sounds serious.
So pressing was the clear and present danger to the very core of American values that just as soon as the vote to sue Obama was finished, the House looked forward to vacation for the next five weeks. Now there’s a Minuteman moment for you.
No Reason Needed 0
Obama Derangement Syndrome starts to boil over.
Jim Wright has a brilliant post about the wingnuts’ Obama Derangement Syndrome at Stonekettle Kitchen. A snippet (emphasis in the original):
And yet – and yet – far from an America destroyed, our nation has steadily improved day by day, month after month, year after year during the entirety of Obama’s Administration. We are better off here in the United States than we have ever been and better off than nearly anywhere else on the planet.
In much of the rest of the world the problems are starvation, hunger, malnutrition, pervasive poverty, epidemic disease, war, rape, terror, slavery, horrifying oppression, homelessness, murder, genocide, natural and manmade disasters in endless succession.
But here in the United States, we are so well off that our worst problem at present, the “crisis” that presently dominates our headlines, is that millions of the less fortunate desperately want to become Americans.
Think about that for a second, won’t you?
Read the rest. He doesn’t write often, but he writes brilliantly.
Hey! Rubio! Victimology Dept. 0
Shorter Marco Rubio:
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If you don’t tolerate my intolerance, you’re intolerant.
“Obamacare Is Made of People” 0
Jon Stewart tackles the D. C. Federal Court’s fantastickal reasoning for sabotaging the Affordable Care Act.
Below the fold in case it autoplays.
Suffer the Children 0
Video below the fold in case it autoplays.
Excerpt:
I was taught by my parents to follow the golden rule: Whenever you see kids in trouble, yell at them in a language they can’t understand.
Clown Suit 0
Dick Polman can’t restrain his scorn for John Boehner’s latest stunt. A nugget:
Translation: “We’re gonna sue the king for refusing to speedily enforce the same law that we’ve tried to repeal 50 times.”
This is the best they can do? To tie their shoelaces together and fall on their faces?
“Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses . . .” 0
A letter-writer to the Roanoke Times nails it. A nugget:
(snip)
And what are we now — bitter, self-serving, fearful NIMBYs wielding pitchforks, torches, placards and fists?
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