Republican Hypocrisy category archive
The Entitlement Society, Sauce for the Goose, Not for the Goslings Dept. 0
An investigation by Georgia’s WSAV channel 3 found that Kingston, who is currently running for Senate and recently suggested students work cleaning cafeterias in exchange for lunch, had expensed as much as $4,182 worth of lunches for his office over the past three years.
“Kingston and his staff expensed nearly $4200 in meals for business purposes to his congressional office, paid for by the American taxpayer,” WSAV 3’s Dan Kartunen reported. The amount could have purchased nearly 2,000 Georgia school lunches.
This does not include meals paid for by lobbyists.
The commentary writes itself, so I won’t bother.
Lost Cause 0
Sauce for the Duck 0
Tina Dupuy issues a challenge:
If you really believe in free speech, if you really think it’s in danger of being abridged, if you really believe it’s an absolute right of living in a free country—then stand up for liberals who say dumb things too. Rally for Alec Baldwin. How about the governor of Louisiana spend an afternoon tweeting support for Martin Bashir’s alleged right to a basic cable show. Get some Change.org petitions going. Get these people back on TV!
(Yeah. Not gonna happen.)
Roberts’s Rules 0
Dick Polman doesn’t have much patience with Chief Justice Roberts complaints that funding for the judicial system has been cut to the bone. Not much at all.
A snippet.
No kidding, Sherlock.
Read the rest.
School for Scamdal 0
Bob Cesca looks back on Bush’s Benghazis.
Rebranding 0
Tony Norman is stunned by the speed with which some Republicans–he specifically quotes Rush Limbaugh–are moving to claim Nelson Mandela as one of their own, even as others deride him as a Marxist.* He finds precedent:
It used to take a few decades for this kind of ideological revisionism to surface. Though former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and the right-wingers of his day were convinced Martin Luther King Jr. was a communist, he was retrieved from the dust bin of history by a younger generation of Republicans. These days, you can’t invoke King’s name in passing without a chorus of conservatives shouting, “He was a Republican, you know.”
While they’re at it, party elders would like to convince us that King practically delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech from the floor of the 1964 Republican convention just before Barry Goldwater was nominated for president. When it comes to redeeming King and making him safe for public consumption, the level of opportunism and cynicism on the part of those who once hated him is boundless.
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*Follow the link. Just do it.
Secret Lives 0
The Booman views the cesspool and is not surprised.
If One Picture Is Worth . . . 0
. . . what the price of four?
Via Bartcop.
The Confederate Party 0
You’ve got your smart bigots, who cloud their bigotry in fancy words, then you’ve got the rest.
Budget Cycles 0
Stephen M. skewers Republican calls to “simplify the tax code.”
And the budget will be busted yet again, as it usually is under tax-cutting GOP presidents. And it will be up to the next Democratic president after that to clean up the debt and deficit mess — and to get blamed for it.
More at the link.