Republican Hypocrisy category archive

Sally Kalson gives a gander to the ganders:

For all the Republican apoplexy over women and contraception, you never hear any of the party’s male politicians manning up with a male chastity pledge that would make birth control less necessary.

It takes two to tango, as they say, but only one gets pregnant, or called a “slut,” or is subjected to so much punitive legislation — most of it authored by men who would faint en masse at the prospect of going through labor and delivery.

Read the rest, if only to delight in her proposed pledge of male chastity.

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Via Bob Cesca.

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Via BartCop.

Flipping in pictures, both still and moving:

Just read what Hanlon said.

That is all.

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Via Some Guy with a Website, who offers a theory of Rushian longevity.

Daniel Ruth reveals the duplicity of Republican reverence for Rush:

Usually Limbaugh is swooned over by conservatives as a savvy political thinker and an intellectual lighthouse of the Republican Party. The likes of Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are all too happy to appear on Limbaugh’s daily kvetching about all things liberal in the hopes of winning the coveted nod from the fool’s gold microphone.

But when the Father Coughlin of Palm Beach goes more off script than Ted Baxter, suddenly he’s dismissed as nothing more than an “entertainer” — and you know how harmlessly goofy they can be when they are entertaining.

Dick Polman considers Republican fealty to their media overlord:

Before we bid goodbye to the latest tawdry outburst from de facto Republican chairman Rush Limbaugh, let’s give due recognition to the wimps who quake in his wake.

Conservative columnist George Will called them out yesterday on ABC News: “Republican leaders are afraid of Rush Limbaugh. They want to bomb Iran, but they’re afraid of Rush Limbaugh.”

Naturally, Republican leaders have expended the bare minimum of words on the Sandra Fluke episode, hunkering in their bunkers for several days while Limbaugh treated her the way a junkyard dog gnaws meat. I’m referring to the presidential candidates and the Speaker of the House.

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What Field said.

There’s nothing to add.

The appeal to bigotry, that is:

Appearing on MSNBC, (Santorum spokesperson Alice–ed.) Stewart said that when Santorum accused President Obama this weekend of having a non-Biblical theology, he was referring to Obama’s “radical Islamic policies.”

But shortly after her appearance, Stewart phoned MSNBC to say that she had misspoken, that she had actually meant to reference Obama’s “radical environmentalist policies.”

Ana Marie Cox cuts through the santorum to reveal Little Ricky’s little trickies:

When Santorum claims that the policy means that Obama “has reached a new low in this country’s history of oppressing religious freedom that we have never seen before,” he’s relying on American’s long-held distrust of government to blind us to real-life workings of the policy he describes. In practice, it’s preventing people from using their insurance to cover birth control costs that feels like government interference, on the way to oppression.

Follow the link for the rest.

And, in other news, all the bishops harmonize their lies, courtesy of Dick Destiny. Follow that link, then listen to this:

These bishops have abrogated their standing to make statements on sexual morality.

Video via John Cole.

They especially cannot remember their own actions. Indeed, they are the “Not Me” of American politics. Robyn Blumner explains:

All this mud being thrown at the president’s fiscal stewardship, and yet it was the last Republican president who teed up the current challenges. From the date President George W. Bush took office in 2001 until he left in 2009, Bush took a surplus-rich federal budget he had been handed by President Bill Clinton and turned it into a debt-bloated monster, adding $5 trillion to the national debt, nearly doubling it at the time.

When Obama took office, his gift from Bush was an economy in ruins, disgorging 500,000 jobs per month, and a government that could not live within its means.

By examining this year’s budget deficit of a little over $1 trillion it becomes instantly clear that very little can be blamed on any conceivable Obama “spending spree.” The numbers are far more reflective of the hand he’d been dealt.

Shaun Mullen explains it all.

The thing is, the joke does epitomize how (and what) Republicans think about women.

Receptacles.

Via TPM.

Proposed amendment to yet another anti-woman bill in the Oklahoma Senate:

More at the Guardian, but I think that’s ’nuff said.

When you believe nothing, it’s easy to say anything.

That’s how Mayor Green described Philadelphia City Council.

That august body is in eclipse.

A. P. Ticker explains:

Via the Commander Guy.