Republican Hypocrisy category archive

In Wingnut World, this would make sense.

The gift that keeps on giving.

Via Blag Hag.

Via Are We Paying Attention.

Multiple Choice Mitt, a celebration of Mitt’s Flips. Truly a sight to behold.

Via Andrew Sullivan.

Steve Chapman, at the Chicago Tribune, skewers rightwing allegiance to the Tenth Amendment (emphasis added):

Liberals, by contrast, have never had any strong attachment to state sovereignty. Since the New Deal, they have regarded centralized power as the best way to advance the welfare state. They may favor state discretion when it favors their causes. But they don’t pretend to be consistent on the issue.

Conservatives, however, do. Pretend, that is. When there is a conflict between state sovereignty and conservative policies, their reverence for the 10th Amendment abruptly goes by the wayside.

Follow the link for examples drawn from today’s news.

It’s easy to be a Republican.

You don’t really have to believe in anything other than the main chance and you just have to say whatever you think will keep the three-card monte going.

Anyone who thinks Congressman Lamborn’s tarbaby remark was not racist would be disabused of error by the expressions of the two black ladies sitting behind me who heard about it for the first time at my meeting last night.

I looked at them and said, “They’re not even trying to hide it anymore.”

You don’t say things such things unless you think such things.

Sure, he apologized.

He was sorry for letting his slip show.

Addendum, the Next Morning:

What Field said.

Really really big twits.

Via The Richmonder.

The Richmonder observes (emphasis added):

There are effectively three parties in the House now: Republicans, Democrats, and Tea Particans. Republicans and Tea Particans got together and elected Boehner speaker, but really they are two different parties with different beliefs and goals. The Republican Party was foolish to think they would be able to control and use the Tea Party.

As I remarked in a comment yesterday, I suspect that the folks who astroturfed the Teabaggers are having second thoughts right now.

A time of no compromise.

(Hint: The Dems have been trying to compromise.)

Addendum:

Tim F. comments (not on the cartoon, on the situation):

Word has it that Boehner retired to redraft the bill and win some teatard votes. The worst bill in American history amended by a sleep-deprived guy under tremendous stress, to please the stupidest group of legislators in American history. What could possibly go wrong?

The Republican Party is insane.

Cartoon via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

Via BartBlog.

Bloomberg looks at the record:

Yet the speaker, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell all voted for major drivers of the nation’s debt during the past decade: Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts and Medicare prescription drug benefits. They also voted for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, that rescued financial institutions and the auto industry.

Like any con men, they are willing to say whatever they believe will help them pull of today’s con, regardless of what they said yesterday or will say tomorrow.

The Republican Party has become a subversive organization, willing to send the country into default to further their partisan goals. They have crossed from “conservative” to “nihilist.”

Even Grover Norquist has bailed on them (see the link below).

The Booman sums it up:

This is what happens when the Republicans win big in an election. Horrible things happen.

In considering the internal disagreements of the GOP faithful on foreign policy (basically, isolationism vs. all war all the time), Juliette Kayyem identifies the single principle of Republicanism (emphasis added):

How did the party of national security end up so divided on national security? The Republican’s intellectual division, however, has less to do with their own ideology, and more about President Obama’s lack of one. If there is one thing that has united Republicans the last two years it is that they were against whatever Obama was for. So they are cast adrift when they can’t figure out what he wants.

The Republican Party no longer believes in anything, except that they want to be in charge of the pie, so they can consume said pie.

John Cole sums up the current Republican Party.

An excerpt:

Of course they are crazy. Ross Douthat is just a hack who does his best to run cover for his dumber compadres, but they are all crazy. There is really no reason to debate this anymore. They deny evolution, many of them think the earth is only several thousand years old, they don’t believe in global climate change and adamantly don’t believe humans have anything to do with it, they think being gay is a choice and I guaran-god-damned-tee that at least half of them think you can pray it away, they think stem cells are tiny babies, they think Saddam Hussein had a role in 9/11, they think you can cut taxes indefinitely and government revenues will always increase, they think Sarah Palin is qualified to be President and Joe the Plumber has keen political insights, they think Obama may be a Muslim and might not be a citizen, they think the solution to gun violence is more guns, and that dijon mustard and arugula are elitist, that the President who appointed half of Goldman Sachs to his administration is a socialist, and so on.

He left something out.

As I drove to DL last night, I found myself musing on how cruel and heartless, even sadistic, the Republican Party has become.

It quite happily leaves persons to starve in their homeless tent cities, to die for lack of health care.

It no longer pays even lip service to the concept of the common weal.

If you don’t have a (preferably corporate-paid) country club membership, it cares not for you.

You can’t put your money where your mouth is if all you have is mouth. In the debt ceiling discussions, Republicans are all mouth.

From TPM (emphasis added):

President Obama wants to raise the debt ceiling enough to give the federal government breathing room into 2013, that way he doesn’t have to face this issue again before the 2012 election. When you do the math, or more precisely when the budget wizards do the math, it turns out you need about a little more than $2 trillion increase in the debt ceiling to last until 2013. So that’s how much in spending cuts Republicans are demanding: a bit north of $2 trillion.

With me so far? Good, because here’s the rich, hair-pulling, you-got-to-be-kidding-me part:

When the parties sat down yesterday at the White House for another round of hashing out a deal, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) laid out the spending cuts House Republicans hammered out in earlier failed talks with Vice President Joe Biden aimed at a grand bargain on the long-term budget. Now set aside that there’s an open question as to whether Democrats ever did or ever would agree to those cuts Cantor laid out. And set aside that the deal Cantor is proposing doesn’t offer any compromise to Democrats on the tax side (it’s still spending cuts only).

Set all that aside and guess what?

Cantor’s own numbers don’t add up to $2 trillion!

Jonathan Bernstein discusses the emptiness of Republican fiscal posturing (I nearly wrote “policy”) at his blog:

To the contrary: as far as I can tell from their actions, mainstream conservatives just don’t believe in the concept of budgets at all these days. If you don’t believe in budgets, then you really can’t (effectively) care about deficits, no matter how much lip service you give to it. All of which is well within their rights (although at least a bit goofy, given both their anti-deficit rhetoric and the mathematical facts of individual spending and tax decisions).

But it’s wrong for objective observers to describe Republicans as fiscal conservatives, when in fact it’s Democrats, for better or worse, who appear through their actions to actually care about reducing budget deficits.

For Republicans, the debt ceiling is not the issue; they happily raised it seven times under President George the Worst.

The debt ceiling is a Trojan Horse for making the rich richer and the poor poorer. It’s what they do.

. . . wrapped in the flag: See this.

Noz has more.

Via C&L.

From DelawareLiberal, Franklin Roosevelt on Republicans, social security, and employment:

Minions of plutocracy then, minions of plutocracy now.