Republican Hypocrisy category archive
Misdirection Play 0
I call shenanigans.
“This law is hurting real people in my district and around the country,” the Bucks County Republican wrote.
A spokesman for SeaWorld, the amusement park’s parent company, confirmed Wednesday that the company was cutting the weekly work limit for part-time employees from 32 to 28 hours.
No, what’s causing the pain here is the refusal of employers to pay a living wage or to provide reasonable benefits.
To paraphrase Daffy Duck, they’re despicable.
Night of the Long Knives 0
Chauncey Devega unloads on Republican efforts to destroy the food stamp program.
Here’s a snippet:
It is a decision to kill poor people.
In America, discussions of poverty are linked in the public imagination to stereotypes about race, class, and gender. The face of poverty is not white (the group which in fact comprises the largest group of recipients for government aid). Instead, it is the mythical black welfare queen, or an “illegal” immigrant who is trying to pilfer the system at the expense of “hard working” white Americans.
Discussions about poverty are also easily transformed into claims about morality and virtue. Consequently, while the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is very efficient and involves very little if any fraud on the part of its participants, stereotypes about the poor can be used to legitimate the policing and harassment of Americans in need of food support through mandatory drug testing and other unnecessary programs.
Here, the long-term end goal for Republicans is revealed for what it is—a desire to make being a poor person into a crime.
He’s quite correct, you know. The Republican positions on helping the poor cannot be separated from their decision, at the time Nixon initiated the odious Southern Strategy, to become the new Confederate Party. Witness this comparison of the Eisenhower platform with the Romney platform.
Do please read the rest.
Waffle House (and Senate) 0
Dick Polman recounts the attempts of hawkish Republicans to avoid the least appearance of agreeing with President Obama on Syria. A nugget; many more examples at the link.
Obama couldn’t have said it better. Rubio was calling for active American engagement, and we all know what he meant. But that was in April. In September, he supports passive engagement, or maybe no engagement. He says he is “unconvinced that the use of force will work.
Honest to Pete, if President Obama announced the discovery of a cure for cancer, Republicans would be agin’ it because Democrats.
Addendum:
Via Raw Story
Table of Equivalents 0
Oliver Willis offers a flowchart to assist right-wingers in their desparate search for a white Trayvon Martin.
Reince Cycle 0
In a moment of accidental candor, he admits that he doesn’t know the truth.
High Hopes 0
Methinks he hopeth in vain.
After all, actions do speak louder than words, and the actions do speak.
I am a Southern boy. I knoweth bigotry when I seeth it.
Cantor’s Cant 0
The Accidental Journalist.
Cooch and the Cuckoos on the Couch 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Marty Klein tries to understand Cooch and the Cuckoos pervy fascination with what other folks do in their bedrooms.
He concludes that it’s all about politics: creating a monster to hate so as to rally the troops.
A nugget:
Politicians, religious leaders, and do-gooders use oral sex—and sodomy, non-monogamy, S/M, vibrator use, and other common erotic behaviors—as code for “those people aren’t like us,” even when “those people” ARE like us. In fact, they ARE us. But creating a dangerous, degenerate, out-of-control sexual “other” is such a dependable trope for motivating people, no political, religious, or civic leader can give it up. They are captivated by the power the trope gives them.
Follow the link for more.
Sharia Scaria 2
A notable characteristic of Republicanism is a singular lack of self-awareness.
It enables and informs the hypocrisy.
Although this column is about a month old, it points this out starkly.
Then with absolutely zero appreciation for irony, the state senate amended the bill to quickly and somewhat secretly restrict access to legal and constitutionally-protected abortion. Why?
Their religious convictions.
Do read the rest.
Via the Progressive Populist.