Republican Hypocrisy category archive

Via the Richmonder.

Nothing but Astro-Turn from the git-go.

Tea Party favorites such as Stephen Fincher of Tennessee were swept into Congress on a wave of anger over government-funded bailouts of banks.

Now those incumbents are collecting thousands of dollars for re-election campaigns from the same Wall Street firms whose excesses they criticized. They have taken no significant steps to curb them or prevent future taxpayer-financed rescues.

Hanlon:

When the Dixie Chicks said that the president (Bush) made them embarrassed to be from Texas, right was apoplectic and felt they should be boycotted.

Ted Nugent hints that he might try to assassinate the president (Obama), but it doesn’t look like they’re gonna be quite as incensed.

Funny how that works.

In front of the entire class, Cineo’s daughter and another Latino student were handed documents explaining HB56 in Spanish. No other student in the class received the documents.

So I say, “Well, next day I [am] going to go and talk to the principal. And I ask her why [did] they give this paper to my daughter? What was the reason they [gave] this paper to my daughter, and her answer was that they [gave] this paper to all the children that appear they are not from here. And I ask her, “Why [do] you think my daughter is not from here?”

Far as I can see and far as I can feel my daughter is being singled out and racial profiled and discriminated because of her color and race and origin from where they think she is from.

From TPM. Follow the link for the rest.

In his fervent defense Wednesday of Arizona’s right to crack down on illegal immigration, Justice Antonin Scalia likened immigration enforcement to crackdowns on bank robbers.

Funny how history repeats itself. That’s the sort of stuff people used to say about Italians three generations ago.

Afterthought:

My ex can remember having “greasy dago wop” shouted at her as she walked to first grade.

As I said earlier today, hate seems to be constant. Only the targets change.

Republican mouthpieces fall into line:

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Via BartCop.

Via C&L.

Dick Polman sums up the Hilary Rosen fuss. A nugget:

Besides, what’s most fascinating about Romney is his ability to give both sides of an issue, speaking from opposite sides of his mouth. His campaign has spent the last week defending the dignity and labor of stay-at-home moms – yet Romney himself declared back in January that many stay-at-home moms were slackers who ought to be earning paychecks.

During an appearance, he said that mothers who get welfare should be forced to work outside the home. He said he has long wanted “to increase the work requirement. I said, for instance, that even if you have a child of 2 years of age, you need to go to work. And people said, ‘Well, that’s heartless’ … but I want the individuals to have the dignity of work.”

OK, now I get it: If you’re a rich mom like Ann Romney, you can choose the dignity of full-time parenting. But if you’re a poor mom (the hired help, as it were), your sole option is “the dignity of work.” Lest I make the mistake of uttering a poorly worded phrase, I’ll just let the candidate’s hypocrisy speak for itself.

Warning: Possible NSFW imagery.

Via Balloon Juice.

More here, via Atrios.

Via Balloon Juice.

“Judicial activism” is a decision that the right-wing opposes. Robyn Blumner:

But conservative judicial activism is nothing new. It has a long, ignoble history dating from the early 19th century when the court stood in defense of property interests over progressive reforms. In the famed case where slave Dred Scott sued for his freedom, the high court ruled that the Missouri Compromise that restricted slavery in certain territories was an unconstitutional overreach by Congress because it interfered with the rights of slave owners to their property.

The stark contrast between liberal and conservative “activists,” if one must use that phrase, is that ground-breaking liberal decisions typically stand for expanding notions of social fairness and civil rights and liberties, while conservatives more often use judicial power to protect wealth, power and authority.

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At Tampabay dot com, Bill Maxwell muses on the antics who so loudly claim to be Christians:

I have a hard time listening to many of these people, because I often don’t recognize anything Christian in their rhetoric. I regularly find them to be mean-spirited, harsh, uncharitable and often dishonest. Are these the traits of Jesus Christ?

Meanwhile, at the Guardian, Katherine Stewart points out that these same professional Christians are trying to codify hate so they can bully those they dislike (but God forbid someone bully them! Why that would be wrong):

A number of groups that claim to represent the “Christian viewpoint” have come out in vigorous opposition to anti-bullying initiatives, and their opposition has to do with a fundamental question about exactly what we think bullying is.

In Arizona, for example, legislators had their anti-bullying bill teed up for passage in March. But then, Cathi Herrod, chief of a lobbying group associated with Focus on the Family, decided that the bill was really part of an effort to “force cultural acceptance and affirmation of homosexual lifestyles”.

The equation is simple. Hate raises more money and pays for more Cadillacs and Lexuses (Lexi?) than does love.

Matthew 6:5.

Congressman Joe Walsh (R-You Lie) on his opponent, military veteran Tammy Duckworth, who lost both legs and part of one arm in the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq:

“What else has she done? Female, wounded veteran … ehhh,” he continued. “She is nothing more than a handpicked Washington bureaucrat. David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel just picked her up and dropped her into this district.”

These are truly vile people.

Via Bob Cesca.

Warning: Clinical song lyrics in the second half.

From Raw Story:

Most observers took President Obama’s comment that the killing of Trayvon Martin hit him particularly hard because “if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon” as a very normal human reaction.

However, at least one person — Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich — found it “disgraceful” and “appalling” that Obama was “trying to turn” the death of the African American teenager “into a racial issue.”

For Pete’s sake, how can it not be a racial issue?

Does anyone with an IQ greater than that of a can of tuna seriously believe that Zimmerman would have chased down and shot a white kid carrying a bag of skittles?

Give me a break.

RTAmerican considers the strange confluence between the Bible Belt and XXX websites.

It’s an eerie echo of the old alliance between the “Baptists and the bootleggers.”