Republican Hypocrisy category archive

Noz decodes de code.

(Link fixed.)

The Veterans Administration has been broken for a long, long time, even as Republican wars created more and more veterans needing care. Rachel Maddow explains:

Eric Cantor has fewer convictions than Hamilton Burger.

Who’s to blame for Benghazi? We discussed this last night at DL.

Ask, rather, who cut the State Department security budget? (Hint: it wasn’t Democrats.)

Via Balloon Juice.

Republicans have turned pandering into high art. They now parody themselves.

Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.

Hell, National Lampoon in its short-lived glory days could not have made this stuff up.

School vouchers are this generation’s “separate but equal”–not just a strategy for raiding the public treasury, but also a strategy for resegregation. From John Romano:

That (the Florida legislature’s schools policy–ed,) plays right into the Jeb Bush-mindset of creating a separate-but-unequal educational choice system that the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional.

And do not buy the Legislature’s cockamamie argument that it has introduced accountability to the voucher system. Students will not be taking the same Common Core-inspired test given in public schools, and there will be no state ramifications for students, teachers or school funding for low scores.

That’s not accountability, it’s a ruse.

Read the rest.

Afterthought:

The kissing cousin of vouchers is “school choice.” Like “separate but equal,” it is pretty words disguising nefarious intent.

Considering the right’s reaction to the notorious botched “execution” in Oklahoma, Tony Norman tries to figure out where the right wing gets its “Christian values.” A nugget:

An exemplar of the kind of “Christian” this nation has become expert at producing, Mr. Inhofe (R–Dungeon of Pain–ed.) couldn’t bring himself to fake even a smidgen of compassion for Lockett, who, while still conscious during his execution, suffered in a paralyzed state for more than 40 minutes until he was finally overcome by a massive heart attack.

What would Mr. Inhofe’s version of Jesus have done in the “Christian nation” he established under the quasi-priesthood of George Washington? He’d presumably be the first to insert a needle into Lockett’s arm, despite being a victim of capital punishment himself.

Like his most “faithful” followers, the Jesus of Mr. Inhofe’s imagination is as irony deprived as he is sadistic.

I was raised Southern Baptist. The little country church in which I grew up did not know the God that Republicans embrace.

More at the link.

Full disclosure:

Lockett appears to have been thoroughly despicable. Nevertheless, though I believe that some deeds are so heinous that their perpetrators forfeit their place in society, I continue to oppose capital punishment because we kill the wrong persons far too often.

From the RPV (Revised Palin Version) of the Bible. Just read it.

As Juanita Jean observes in a different context (follow the link):

. . . crazy is contagious and that Republicans are carriers.

Historiann takes a look at the imbalance of power. A nugget (emphasis added):

Bundy’s truculence and the response of his mostly-white armed defenders would be unimaginable if most of them weren’t white men. The racialized and gendered nature of gun ownership and gun violence–something I’ve written about in my first book as well as through most of the six years this blog has existed–is historically very deep and completely naturalized in the United States. I’m not the first person to wonder about the outcome of the standoff with BLM officials would have turned out if the Black Panthers instead of an overwhelmingtly white ad-hoc militia had come to Bundy’s rescue? Or if it were a crowd of Latina farm workers and their children positioned in front of militia guns? The respect afforded armed white men in this country is astonishing and astonishingly unexamined.

Do read the rest.

I just ordered her book.

Edit: This post is over two years old. Links are broken. Stuff happens and life goes on. The post itself stands.

After idolizing Cliven Bundy for a week, the Republican establishment and its propaganda machine (also known as Fox News) is now backing away from him with all indeliberate speed. Just what did he do?

He let the cat out of the bag, and it’s one damned ugly cat.

Cliven Bundy is the voter that Nixon’s odious “southern strategy” was designed to woo and succeeded in wedding to the Republican Party. He’s the fellow down the street with the stars-and-bars decal in the rear window of his pick-up truck; he’s your cousin who is convinced that President Obama was born in Kenya; he’s your co-worker who claims that climate change is a plot by scientists to get research grants; he’s your boss who believes that there is or can be such a thing as “reverse discrimination.”

He is the Republican base.

In Wingnut World, Cliven Bundy’s error was not in what he said. It’s that he said it at all.

Now the Wingnut noise machine is backing away from him because, as the Gloomy Historian explains, to use the catch-phrase of the day, associating with him is “bad optics” (follow the link for the rest):

So why is open racism, as espoused by Cliven Bundy, bad for Fox and the Republicans? Simple economics. The vestige of middle class America, safe from the world in their tucked away suburbistans, forms a plurality if not majority of conservative voters. They like to believe they are above vulgar racism and shy away from open declarations such as Bundy’s. Suburban conservatives and their even more remote cousins in exurban McMansions are the beloved demographic of advertisers, the Americans who have slightly more income than required for subsistance. I’ll admit it looked like this bulwark of polite society seemed to have been overrun with the emergence of the tea party and it’s myriad racist appeals, but Fox did manage to gloss that over and pretend did not happen to reassure the skittish suburbanites who do not want to support an openly racist party. But it keeps popping up.

After reeling off a list of paragons of Republican Family Values (David “Diaper Me” Vitter, Mark “Appalachian Trail” Sanford, Dr. Scott “Let’s Have an Affair” DesJarlais, Vic “Child Support Schmild Support” Sprouse), Tina Dupuy explains how Republican Family Values work. A nugget:

If homosexuality ceased to be considered a sin and all Americans were judged by the content of their character instead of whom they love, it’d be hard for Republicans to find people to be morally superior to. We’d go back to being scandalized by the way people treat one another . . . .

Do read the rest.

Via Progressive Populist (the print edition).

Plessy v. Ferguson rises from the grave, a href=”http://crooksandliars.com/2014/04/justice-sonia-sotomayor-blasts-john”>reanimated by Republicans.

My disgust is boundless, but my surprise is nil.

I’m a southern boy.

All my life, I’ve listened to racists declare, “Oh, golly gosh gee no, Batman, race has nothing to do with it.”

George Smith exposes the glibertarian con of the “entrepreneurial society” and those who insidiously spread it using your “member” contributions.

To answer the question at the end of his post, in glibertarian world, a “parasite” is anyone who can’t afford to buy his own politician.

Follow the money.