Republican Hypocrisy category archive

Nobody could have predicted:

But judges and other court officials say family and parental disputes heard in the state’s (Mass.–ed.) family courts jumped by 5,000 last year, fueled by the worst recession in decades.

Requests for reduced alimony and child support payments have surged, and the emotional toll of lost jobs, slashed pay, and uncertain futures appears to be driving an increase in other family problems.

Read the whole thing.

News from the Sanfordized state:

A panel of state lawmakers voted by 6-1 today not to move forward with impeachment charges, which stemmed from the the governor’s legendary Argentinean romp this summer, as well as his use of state aircraft. The legislators said Sanford’s misdeeds — among them, leaving the state for five days to visit his mistress, without notifying the lieutenant governor of his absence — were not so serious as to merit his removal from office.

I don’t think he should be impeached and removed from office either, not that I have a say in it.

As long as he is in office, he is one more reminder of Republican Family Values in action.

Shorter Republican talking point: Opposing rape is not in the collegial spirit of the Senate.

Jeez oh man, do these folks actually listen to themselves?

Eric Cantor (R-Cloud Cuckoo Land) holds a job fair and attacks the stimulus program.

Half the companies at the job fair have benefited from the stimulus program and probably wouldn’t be there without it.

Cantor does not eat hat.

Steve Benen reports:

“The continuing hypocrisy from Republican leaders, like Eric Cantor, who try to block solutions in Washington and then take credit for them back home, is reaching epidemic proportions,” the DCCC’s Jesse Ferguson said. “If Representative Cantor’s ‘Party of No’ policies were in effect, this event would have been an unemployment fair not a jobs fair.”

The Guardian highlights the internal contradiction in the arguments against reforming health care in the United States (emphasis added):

But perhaps the boldest deceit is perpetrated by opponents of big government. For generations they have argued that when governments take on tasks better performed by markets, they are bound to fail, because bureaucrats are by nature inefficient. Whenever they step in between consumer and provider, it ends in grief, the argument goes.

(snip side trip)

But when it comes to the creation of a government-run alternative to private insurance schemes, the fear is not that big government would be too inefficient but that it would be only too effective at undercutting the market. Which is it?

Which it is is simple: The antis are willing to whatever they think sounds good. Facts are irrelevant.

Those who think sound bites, rather than facts, cannot help but contradict themselves, not to mention contradict reality.

They disregard the words of the late Senator Moynihan, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” and create not-facts that sound like facts on the fly.

But no one is really to the facts, just to the bites. And that bites.

One note samba:

The fact is that the Republican Party told teabaggers’ grandmas (of “death panel” fame) that Social Security was going to be the end of America. And today you can’t swing a euthanized cat without hitting a Republican at a microphone insisting he’s Social Security’s greatest champion.

Republicans likewise told teabaggers’ dads that Medicare would be the end of America. And today you can’t swing a… oh yeah, you’ve heard that one.

Today, of course, Republicans will spend the entire day telling teabaggers themselves that the health insurance reform bill will be the end of America.

That’s why I agree with Markos Moulitsas when he calls the conservatives a bunch of cowards. They want to fight the terrorists over there so we don’t have to fight them here. Why be afraid to fight terrorists wherever they might arise? After putting New Yorkers at increased risk of retribution by attacking and occupying a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks, the conservatives feign concern for the safety of New Yorkers when they try to put the real culprits on trial. It is beyond insulting.

Read the whole thing.

Another installment of the Republican serial, Business Can Do No Wrong:

Oh, yeah, about those family values thingees? They are for the rest of us.

Via Delaware Liberal.

The three legs of the stool: Richard Kim and Betsy Reed in the Nation (emphasis added):

But what of the (Palin–ed.) poison’s other effects? Her nonsensical statements may inadvertently provide comic relief, but it’s no laughing matter when serious debate is distorted by the wild misinformation she feeds to her increasingly paranoid base. Sometimes the lunacy is contained on the fringes. At a recent Wisconsin Right to Life fundraiser, she somberly raised the decision to move the “In God We Trust” motto to the edge of the presidential dollar coin. “Who calls a shot like that?” she said, insinuatingly. Actually, George W. Bush did. It was an embarrassing gaffe that also neatly captures the key elements of Palinism: fact-free conspiracy, hollow patriotism and public religiosity–the very coins of Republican populist rage.

In a similar example of conscience-less, perhaps even unconscious, and mystifyingly self-unaware, hypocrisy, I woke up this morning to read this. Andy Borowitz–er–expands.

Words fail me.

Fox: “The subtle altering of reality to sell a preconceived narrative.”

Via Raw Story.

For Republican.

One more time: This would just be another nutcase, except for that whole “family values” shtick.

If you go to pat yourself on the back for being holier than thou, be careful not to break your arm.

More here.

The truth doesn’t have enough truthiness.

Without sufficient truthiness, Republicans cut and run:

Listen all the way through to Ed’s comment at the end.

Via James Wolcott.

Regarding the House vote on the health care bill (plenty of details elsewhere–I’m not even going to bother):

What he said (emphasis added):

Republicans condemned the vote and said they would oppose the measure as it proceeds on its legislative route. “This government takeover has got a long way to go before it gets to the president’s desk, and I’ll continue to fight it tooth and nail at every turn,” said Representative Kevin Brady, Republican of Texas. “Health care is too important to get it wrong.”

What he meant:

Health care is too lucrative to make it affordable.

The irrational hate on the right.

RIchard Blair explains.

More news from the Sanfordized state:

Corning, who is a former state legislator, left his job with the (South Carolina) attorney general’s office after he was pulled over Monday on suspicion of illegal activity. When he was pulled over, Corning identified himself as an employee with the attorney general’s office and was not charged with a crime.

He had an 18 year-old-girlwoman, one of those drugs you keep getting spam about, and at least one BOB.*

He did not reportedly have any hiking shoes or a compass for his Appalachian Trail.

Aside: This wouldn’t be news except for all the Republican “family values” hypocrisy.

Via Mithras.

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*Battery Operated Boyfriend.

Dick Polman:

Here’s Phil Gingrey, a House Republican, flashing his chops and triumphantly brandishing the stimulus bucks that he won for his local town…but isn’t this the same Phil Gingrey who voted against the stimulus package – along with every single other House Republican?

Indeed it is. Yet now he turns around and milks it for the folks back home, and garners political kudos in the bargain. The dictionary definition of hypocrisy need not be consulted here, because we’re seeing it in action.

There’s more.

Will Bunch explains what the fuss is all about (he goes on to explain what he considers to be legitimate gripes about ACORN, mainly that it’s not run very well):

The real reason they are after ACORN is that they don’t like its core mission — siding with beleaguered homeowners over banks, and trying to register inner-city residents to vote at the same rates as the suburbanites who’ve dominated American politics since the 1980s. Taking down the group’s mission of urban empowerment won’t strengthen America, just the Republican Party. And you don’t need a Ph.D. in social work or journalism to figure this out . . . .

ACORN helps poor people. We can’t have that, now, can we?