Republican Hypocrisy category archive

More Republican Family Values here.

Political grandstanding affects real live dead people.

Dick Polman comments on Louisiana Congressman Vance McAllister, who was captured on camera locked in an embrace with his soon-to-be-ex-best friend’s wife. A nugget (emphasis added):

If McAllister hadn’t been caught on camera, he wouldn’t be hunmbling himself and playing the God card. In fact, Melissa Peacock’s husband, who’s a tad upset at the moment, thinks it’s all a crock. Heath Peacock told CNN: “I know his beliefs. When he ran one of his commercials, he said ‘I need your prayers,” and I asked (him) ‘When did you get religious?’ He said, ‘I need the votes.’ He broke out the religious card, (but) he’s about the most non-religious person I know.”

Republican Family Values–a fraud and a scam.

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Addendum, Later That Same Morning:

Read this.

The gift that keeps on giving.

Afterthought:

Men misbehave; women get fired.

Now that’s family values.

It’s a Republican thing.

Via C&L.

Republicans are fond of quoting Daniel Patrick Moynihan in their quest to blame the poor for being poor. Like Christians whose faith is rooted in Leviticus, they quote only the passages that seem to justify their prejudices. Reacting to George Will’s latest attempt to dress racism up in Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes, Chauncey Devega points this out:

Conservatives ignore how Moynihan identified white racism as one of the central problems facing black and brown communities. Moynihan also argued for robust government programs to confront urban poverty, fix failing schools, job supports, and financial subsidies for poor families. He most certainly would be aghast at the Republican Party’s campaign to destroy the social safety net, vilify the poor, and to destroy those that the 1 percent and other corporate elites have identified as “useless eaters”.

The Daniel Patrick Moynihan who stated the following would be vilified by the Republican Party and its media machine:

First, the racist virus in the American blood stream still afflicts us: Negroes will encounter serious personal prejudice for at least another generation. Second, three centuries of sometimes unimaginable mistreatment have taken their toll on the Negro people.

(snip)

The real goal for Paul Ryan and his ilk is political self-aggrandizement by ginning up white racism against “those people” in order to advance policies that hurt the majority of Americans.

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Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

The Roanoke County school board is planning to cut health care coverage for school bus drivers–you know, those folks who work a split shift for not much money–because Republicans in the Commonwealth of Virginia’s General Assembly have chosen to remove the “common” from “Commonwealth.”

The Roanoke Times’s Dan Casey has some suggestions for the drivers. Here’s my favorite; follow the link for the rest:

Or, you can find another part-time government job that pays full-time health benefits. Good luck with this one. I’m aware of only two positions that fit the bill.

The first is part-time delegates and senators in the Virginia General Assembly. Those are the people who’ve cut state support to public education and forced school boards into the position of cutting bus drivers’ benefits.

The second is positions on the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors. Those part-timers are eligible for full-time health benefits, too. They’re the ones who’ve been avoiding tax increases that would help fund continued benefits for other part-timers.

PoliticalProf points out the Republican dialectic:

Barack Obama is a weakling, mom jeans wearing apologist for American exceptionalism whose multiple failings and incompetencies caused Americans to needlessly die in Benghazi, continues to cause tens of thousands of deaths in Syria, and so abetted the Russian (Soviet???) invasion of Ukraine.

He is also a ruthless authoritarian dictator coming to take your guns, lock you up in reeducation camps who sends his jack booted thugs in the IRS to abuse your rights and liberties if you espouse any political point of view he doesn’t like, all in the name of imposing Obamacare and its socialist nightmare on the freedom-loving American people.

The rest is below the fold in case it autoplays.

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I may have posted this before.

No matter. It still applies.

Via Escape from Whitemanistan.

Via C&L.

A letter to the editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer skillfully skewers the fallacious and immoral right-wing subterfuge that any old bozo behind a counter should be allowed to run your life because he or she doesn’t like how you live it that you use birth control and might have a sex life.*

YOU’RE at the pharmacy to pick up your diabetes medication.

The pharmacist takes a look at you and at your prescription, and refuses to fill it.

Why?

Is it expired, or maybe you’re out of refills?

No, the prescription is valid and current. But the pharmacist has decided that your Type II diabetes is something you brought on yourself, and because of his deeply held moral and religious objection to the sin of gluttony, he doesn’t have to serve you.

Do read the rest.

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*Have you noticed that, when the right-wing brings floats this argument, it is always about products that work only with female physiology?

You don’t hear them arguing that morality demands that pharmacists and store clerks refuse to sell condoms to men.

Because condoms are only “for the prevention of disease,” if I remember the wording on the notices I used to see on vending machines in men’s rooms when I was a young ‘un and didn’t know what they meant. Or wild oats. Or something.

Or maybe it’s just the skeevy Republican preoccupation with lady bits.

Persons who have health insurance don’t want you to have health insurance.

Afterthought:

Dissing the poors. It’s a Republican thing.