Republican Hypocrisy category archive
Cooch and the Cuckoos on the Couch 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Marty Klein tries to understand Cooch and the Cuckoos pervy fascination with what other folks do in their bedrooms.
He concludes that it’s all about politics: creating a monster to hate so as to rally the troops.
A nugget:
Politicians, religious leaders, and do-gooders use oral sex—and sodomy, non-monogamy, S/M, vibrator use, and other common erotic behaviors—as code for “those people aren’t like us,” even when “those people” ARE like us. In fact, they ARE us. But creating a dangerous, degenerate, out-of-control sexual “other” is such a dependable trope for motivating people, no political, religious, or civic leader can give it up. They are captivated by the power the trope gives them.
Follow the link for more.
Sharia Scaria 2
A notable characteristic of Republicanism is a singular lack of self-awareness.
It enables and informs the hypocrisy.
Although this column is about a month old, it points this out starkly.
Then with absolutely zero appreciation for irony, the state senate amended the bill to quickly and somewhat secretly restrict access to legal and constitutionally-protected abortion. Why?
Their religious convictions.
Do read the rest.
Via the Progressive Populist.
Charlie Rangel Is Right 3
Let Chauncey Devega explain. A nugget:
In the most obvious and public examples, Tea Party rallies have featured signs depicting Barack Obama as an African “witchdoctor” or “savage”. Tea Party supporters have also carried signs emblazoned with the Confederate flag, or used monkey and ape imagery to describe the country’s first black president at their rallies.
Twits on Twitter 0
A fervent belief of some is that, if you don’t acknowledge racism, it is as if it never were.
Responsible Fiscals 2
Republicans: Watch what they do, not what they say.
Dan Morain reports in the Sacramento Bee:
Rep. McClintock, a Republican who represents the Sierra even though he resides in Elk Grove, has cultivated a reputation for being tight with a dollar, for having been a tea partyer back before the tea party existed, and, most of all, for sticking to his stated principles.
So imagine my surprise when it turned out that in addition to being paid $174,000 a year by Uncle Sam, McClintock has been collecting a California Legislators’ Retirement System pension since he arrived in Congress in 2009, courtesy of the taxpayers he says he tries so hard to protect.
More what they do at the link.
Privileged Communications 0
The idea that the President of the United States should not comment on a racially charged incident of deadly stalking (apparently because the President is a Not White person) is just about as racist and white-privileged as it gets.
As a white folk, I must ask, since when can anyone trust white folks about race?
It’s remarkable how the Zimmerman case has flushed the racists out of the wall.
We knew they were there and that they never give up; now they unabashedly show themselves, scurrying across the floor and soiling the discourse.
As my mother would have said, “The nerve of some people!
Have they no sham–oh, never mind.
Image via BartCop.
The Regent Takes a Dip in the Pool 0
Blistering.
Both Sides Not 0
The Booman wonders why the birthers haven’t turned on Senator Ted Cruz, who was actually born outside the borders of the United States.
One guess what the answer is.
Misdirection Plays 1
Robyn Blumner explains why persons magically become “shiftless” as soon as they get laid off:
But by transforming the unemployed from working Americans who have lost a job through no fault of their own and need a financial bridge until they can find another one, into malingerers bilking the system, politicians are magically absolved of responsibility to help. In fact, the best action the state can take is to motivate these people to be self-reliant by making them more desperate. See: the world according to Paul Ryan.
Read the rest.
A Newt Is a Small Lizard 0
The Rude One thinks someone has daddy issues (warning: extremely rude).
“Judicial Activism” Is a Republican Thing 0
Right-wing justices adhere faithfully to an immutable document:
The Republican Party Platform.
Erwin Chemerinsky explains in the Sacramento Bee. A snippet (emphasis added):
It was striking that the conservative justices professed the need to defer to Congress when that supported a conservative result and to give no deference when it wouldn’t. And in cases involving federal statutes, time and again, the conservative justices went out of their way to protect big business over the interests of employees, consumers and small business even when it meant negating the clear will of Congress.
For decades, conservatives have professed a belief in judicial restraint and a desire to decide cases based on a neutral judicial methodology. This term, as much as any, shows that this is nonsense and it is an emperor with no clothes.
