Republican Hypocrisy category archive

Via Suburban Guerilla.

You can’t make this stuff up.

It’s 15 minutes long. Don’t miss a one.

When you believe in nothing (except possibly $$$$$$$), you are liable to anything.

There’s no there there.

Via Raw Story.

Via C&L.

Jason 330 explains Republicanism.

Republicans and some members of the punditocracy are starting to moan that those big bad Democrats are being “uncivil.”

It seems to me that, often, when someone is losing on the facts, he or she then starts to moan about “civility.”

Bob Cesca’s not having it:

You know who shouldn’t be lecturing the Democrats about civility? The people who gave us swift-boating, the Southern Strategy, the outing of Valerie Plame, Birthers, Reverend Wright videos around the clock, “Obama pals around with domestic terrorists,” the exploitation of 9/11, comparing a triple amputee Vietnam veteran to Saddam Hussein, the booing of a gay soldier, and the party that sported Purple Heart band-aids at the 2004 convention to mock another decorated Vietnam veteran, John Kerry, who was wounded in combat. And no one on the floor of the Democratic convention hurled peanuts at an African American camerawomen, shouting, “This is how we feed the animals.”

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If your party can run the country for eight years, and then have a convention and not invite Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Karl Rove, or Tom Delay, you’re not a political movement, you’re the witness protection program.

Via Raw Story.

Via C&L.

Daniel Ruth looks behind the curtain at the backstories of those “small-guvmint” Republicans who “graced” the stage in Tampa.

Ryan, Rubio and Bondi, the Peter, Paul and Mary of the public trough, are supposed to represent the next generation of fiscally tight-wadded champions of the working classes fending off the oppressive, ham-handed faceless bureaucrats, while they owe their entire careers (and political celebrity) to that very same government they claim to want to rein in.

If it wasn’t for government, they might actually have to go out and get real jobs.

They just want the whole teat for themselves and their sponsors.

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IOKIYAR. Contradict Me explains.

Dick Polman takes a scalpel to Paul Ryan’s speech and dissects the (biggest) lies one-by-one. Here’s a nugget:

At one point, he denounced the evils of “a government-planned life,” and contrasted it with his own “American journey” that began when he was “waiting tables, washing dishes, mowing lawns for money.” Oh please. This guy has spent virtually his entire adult life in government – 14 years on Capitol Hill starting at age 28, and before that he was a congressional aide. His own brother, Tobin Ryan, said on Fox News yesterday (this was hilarious): “I never actually thought he was going to be a career politician. I kept expecting him to come back and start a real job.”

You can’t make this stuff up.

But Paul Ryan can.

Sally Kalston has had it up to here with Republican rape fantasies:

What is it with these heavy-breathing Republican men and their rape fantasies?

How did they become so salaciously contemptuous of women that they see the term “sexual assault” as an oxymoron?

Did their mothers once catch them after church reading dirty magazines under the covers, and did it warp their sexual development for all time? Are they so ashamed of their own urges that it compels them to cast rape victims as evil temptresses who must have been asking for it and therefore deserve additional punishment after the fact?

J. M. Ashby decodes the code.

Mike Papantonio to Republicans trying to walk away from Todd Akin, the women can’t get pregnant from rape candidate:

They are mad at Todd Akin because he said . . . what they really believe, that is, that women are objects. . . .

Hell, you (Republicans–ed.) invented Todd Akin. . . . Todd Akin is you.

Republicans: Watch what they do, not what they say.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

Oh, my, what is poor Paulie Ryan to do: Confess lying about not requesting stimulus funds or claim ignorance of his subordinates’ actions?

After initially denying he had requested stimulus funds, GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan has acknowledged that his office had sought the money for his Wisconsin congressional district and took responsibility for it.

“After having these letters called to my attention I checked into them, and they were treated as constituent service requests in the same way matters involving Social Security or Veterans Affairs are handled,” Ryan said in a statement late Thursday. “This is why I didn’t recall the letters earlier.”

Betting on ignorance, I see.

Probably a safe bet.

Indeed, some voters seem to think of ignorance as a qualification.

Herewith linked and buiding on today’s QOTD–The dirty truth behind one-the-one-hand-on-the-other-hand press coverage, from Tom Levenson at Balloon juice:

But the real point isn’t that Ryan’s presence on the ticket makes it harder for the GOP to figure out how to write ads or get out the vote come November. It is that Ryan’s presence brings into sharp relief exactly what the party and its backers has spent decades trying to obscure. Republicanism doesn’t work. . . .

That is to say, as everyone reading this already knows—but too many in the country haven’t grasped, yet—the basic policy presumptions of the Republicans either have been tried and been seen to fail (see, e.g. tax cuts and economic growth, George Bush II edition) or can be analyzed and recognized as disastrous. (See, e.g., the GOP and Ryan plan to return health care to the status quo ante of the pre-Obamacare universe, only worse, with no cost controls and the burden of paying for health care inflation shifted from a national insurance pool to an individually aging population, AKA You and Me).

Republicans–they can dish it out, but they sure don’t want to take it.

Republicans: Pay attention to what they do, not to what they say.

Shaun Mullen, in a long and thoughtful post explaining Why Mitt Romney’s Assertion That He Can Fix The Economy Is Flapdoodle, lists three things Republicans hope you will forget:

Public opinion polls reveal that while voters in the swing states that Romney must win if he has a chance of ousting Obama are deeply concerned about the economy, they understand three things:

• That the president has been handicapped at every turn by obdurate Republicans like Ryan who would rather see him suffer in the polls than pitch in to turn the economy around.
• That even in this era of truth twisting, Romney and his handlers have lied continuously and shamelessly on an epic scale about virtually everything, including his own private-sector record.
• That Romney’s tenure as a venture capitalist who destroyed jobs no more qualifies him as an able steward of the economy than it did Herbert Hoover.

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