Republican Hypocrisy category archive

Then.

Now.

Video via the Daily Banter.

In Wingnut World, the the only law that matters is the law of “my way or the highway.”

They are interested in rule, not law.

The St. Petersburg Times cuts to the quick: it was all about hatin’ on persons who are different (emphasis added).

In striking down three of four disputed provisions of Arizona’s harsh anti-immigrant law, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday warned states that almost any effort to wade into immigration issues or target people with a different skin color or limited English would not be tolerated.

The Republican fear and horror about immigrants is no more than the Southern Strategy v. 2.0.

The Booman sums up the performance.

What were the chances that a black attorney general could serve two consecutive years during Republican control of the House without being charged with contempt?

The chances had to be about zero. They started accusing Holder of being a racist before he got his parking assignment at the DOJ. Go to Google and type in “Eric Holder racist” and you get 2,470,000 results. Type in “George Wallace racist” and you get 400,000.

The Southern Strategy is alive and well growing.

Via PoliticalProf.

Via Bartcop.

Republicans want to control them.

But they can’t bring themselves to say that word.

The pervy old white men of the Republican Party would have given Freud Krafft-Ebing material for several more volumes.

Dick Polman rounds up Mitt the Flip’s latest whoppers. A nugget:

4. Romney even lies about himself. He didn’t go to Vietnam when he was young, but said in 2007 that he regretted not going: “I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there, and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam.” Yet in 1994, he told the press: “I was not planning on signing up for the military. It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.” It gets worse. In 1994, he said that he did nothing “to remove myself from the pool of young men who were eligible for the draft,” whereas in reality, he sought and received multiple deferments.

Follow the link for the rest.

The Republican Southern Strategy continues apace.

These are not nice people.

Via Contradict Me, to whom I refer you for commentary.

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*Well, they are. They are trying to say that this is somehow not racist.

Not mistakes.

Strategy.

Truman was right.

Dick Polman examines the scam. A nugget (emphasis added):

At the risk of citing ancient history (which is anything that occurred prior to the latest news cycle), I want to time-travel all the way back to last autumn, when Obama championed an ambitious jobs plan that would’ve put teachers, construction workers, police officers and firefighters back to work – if not for the fact that the congressional GOP deep-sixed the bill. The Senate GOP, playing the filibuster card which requires 60 votes for just about anything, successfully prevented the jobs bill from even being brought up for debate.

When the American Jobs Act was first proposed, independent economists – including Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics and a top ’08 McCain adviser – said that Obama’s measure would create as many as two million new jobs. Forget it, folks. There was no way the Republicans would ever let that happen. They’re invested in rooting for misery, and working with Obama to put people back to work would mess with their electoral master plan.

Their top priority is not to forge bipartisan deals that would create jobs. On the contrary, Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell articulated their top priority several years ago: “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” Why ease Americans’ job misery if it means that Obama might win a second term? Better to do nothing, and bank on the likelihood that most voters won’t remember the Republican intransigence that took place one year before the election.

Read the rest.

Via PoliticalProf.

In Wingnut World, give-aways are quite okay if they make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Indeed, not giving away is a firing offense. Despoiling the environment is just a sweetener in the pot.

Florida’s top state wetlands expert has been suspended after she refused to issue a permit on a controversial project — one that she said her boss was willing to bend the rules to approve.

The project: turning a North Florida pine plantation into a business that attempts to make up for wetlands that are wiped out by new roads and development. At stake: millions of dollars in wetland “credits” that can be sold to government and developers.

The problem, according to a May 9 memo from Department of Environmental Protection wetlands expert Connie Bersok, is that the owners want the DEP to give them lots of wetland credits for land that isn’t wet.

The “credits” are sort of credit default swaps for real estate developers. The kicker is this: the alleged wetlands to be “credits” aren’t.

Aren’t wet, that is.

Follow the link for details.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

The Green Miles mows the Astroturf:

If you’re looking for evidence the Tea Party is a fake movement funded by polluters like the Koch brothers to distract voters into freaking out about fake threats while overlooking real ones, look no further than fracking.

If you thought wingnuts were whacky before, wait till the fear that somewhere, sometime, two people might be happy being with each other fully sets in.

Why all the fuss? It’s the misdirection play all over again once more redundantly. As long as minds stay in the bedroom, they overlook the boardroom*:

Our crisis has nothing to do with private morality. It’s a crisis of public morality – of abuses of public trust that undermine the integrity of our economy and democracy and have led millions of Americans to conclude the game is rigged.

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Regressive Republicans have no problem intruding on the most personal and most intimate decisions any of us makes while railing against government intrusions on big business.

They don’t hesitate to hurl the epithets “shameful,” “disgraceful,” and “contemptible” at private moral decisions they disagree with, while staying stone silent in the face of the most contemptible violations of public trust at the highest reaches of the economy.

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*Pun stolen.

Brad Friedman reports:

You’re unlikely to hear a peep about this on Fox “News” (unless they happen to have me on), but the California Secretary of State’s Election Fraud Division is now reportedly investigating a firmed hired by the Sacramento County Republican Party said to have submitted thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms.

According to a report today from Sacramento ABC affiliate News10 [see video posted below], a private, for-profit firm calling itself Momentum Political Services, hired by the local Republican Party “to boost GOP registration ranks in key battleground communities” has turned in more than 3,100 hundred invalid voter registration cards during their recent drive.

Follow the link for much, much more.

Image via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog. Video via Raw Story.

The price of gasoline is dropping. Dick Polman hears the silence.

A nugget:

But wait a second…If we were take the original Republican position at face value (with a straight face), if we were to ignore global economic reality and instead assert that Obama warrants blame for the price spike – in other words, that an American president controls the price of gas – then does it not logically follow that Obama should get the credit for a 10-cent drop at the pump? Right?

So, are any Republicans saying that?

Hello out there?

Anybody home?