Republican Hypocrisy category archive

Ya know, they keep saying stuff like this, then they say, “Oh, I didn’t mean it that way.”

But they did.

Or they wouldn’t have said it in the first place.

Via the Booman.

Dick Polman, (emphasis added):

And Sotomayor, of course, has extra incentive to play it safe. She’s facing seven Republican white men who are looking for something, anything, to help them paint her as a reverse-racist Puerto Rican woman enslaved by her emotions. (Bill Maher has mimicked the Republican strategy thusly: “For too long, Puerto Rican women have had their boot on the neck of white men in America, and this has to stop!”) . . . .

The odious Republican “Southern Strategy” has run its course, been bypassed by time, but it’s all they know.

You can dress a smear campaign up in a tux and give it a cane and a tophat, but it’s still a smear campaign.

Via TPM.

Addendum, Later that Night:

Rude Pundit has the play-by-play (Warning: Rude Language. Very Rude Language. Very Very Rude Language)

Brendan goes ghostbusting:

In light of the latest unemployment figures, there are more persistent questions coming at the administration. Did Obama and his team get it right last winter when they put together their $787 billion stimulus package, or did they undershoot? If they made a mistake, what should they do now?

The guys at the Post must be too busy selling access to lobbyiststo do their homework, because that statement is not even close to accurate. As the AP reported in February, it was the Senate that insisted on a $787 billion stimulus. Obama asked for more than a BILLIONS more. And guess who was the driving force behind the cuts?

Scaling back the bill to levels lower than either the $838 billion Senate measure or the original $820 billion House-passed measure caused grumbles among liberal Democrats, who described the cutbacks as a concession to the moderates, particularly Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., who are under pressure from conservative Republicans to hold down spending.

Actually, Arlen is really neither a Republican nor a Democrat.

He’s an Arlenicanocrat.

Reading an article about the opposition of plutocrats and Republicans to the proposal for a department of financial consumer protection, I came upon this gem of a quote:

U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus (R., Ala.), who opposes the bill, said that it “appears to be premised on the idea that Washington is better at making financial decisions for all Americans than leaving that choice up” to individuals.

And over the past decade, since the repeal of Glass-Steagall was sneaked through the Congress in the middle of the night, individuals have demonstrated just how much competence at making financial decisions under the influence of fast-talking three-piece-suited banksters?

These folks are more interested in protecting the Greenwich, Conn., McMansions of their corporate masters than they are in protecting consumers from predatory Masters of the Universe.

Gag me with a spoon.

In the case of Senator Ensign the porker, who hoists his ensign in the wrong places while attacking others who do the same (and do it with a lot less expenditure), it was a lot.

Steve elucidates (be sure to read the first comment).

Via Delaware Liberal.

CC discusses karma.

Steve makes book.

It’s not a good idea to go threatening persons’ lives and safety.

One of the things that puzzles and appalls me about the far right is how quickly and casually they employ the rhetoric of death and violence, as if killing those with whom they disagree would somehow be a good thing.

And then, when someone acts on that rhetoric, they all look around blankly, like little Jeffie in the Family Circus cartoon, and say in chorus, “Not me.”

Shorter Grover Norquist: Adultery is good.

Aside:

Q. What’s the difference between Republican politicians and Hugh Hefner?

A. Hugh Hefner lives his values.

Republican Family Values.

Another one bites the dust.

Has any political party ever done more to discredit themselves and to demonstrate that their talking points are, well, nothing more than talking points?

I trained as a historian. My tentative answer to that question is, “Not in a gazillion years!”

Furrfu.

Josh Marshal on the Republican Party’s losing support among Hispanic voters (and remember that voters are by definition citizens):

The only problem is that the modern Republican party’s panic switch, or at least one of them, is rancid jingoism and more or less open anti-Hispanic (though often specifically targeted at Mexicans) prejudice. Or, to put it more bluntly, as with African-Americans, it’s tough to be the party of the blacks and the racists at the same time. (Not that the Dems didn’t try it for a few decades in the middle of the 20th century — but it didn’t end up panning out.)

(snip)

In other words, it’s not a mistake or incompetence or any lack of planning that has Republicans in such a bad position with Hispanics, America’s fastest growing ethnic group. It’s just that people who are hostile to Hispanic immigration and just Hispanics in general are one of the GOP’s key constituencies. That puts some real obstacles in the way of becoming the party of Hispanics. To put it mildly …

A. No.

Addendum, the Next Morning:

Will Bunch:

As for Ensign, despite his blatant hypocrisy, I’m not a big fan of jumping over every GOP guy who cheated on his wife; when it comes to morality, there’s no reason to think that either party has the edge, although for some reason it does seem like more Republicans have found themselves in embarassing spots lately. (Although I’m less worried about what Ensign was up to than where someone like Democrat Jack Murtha has been putting his hands — in the cookie jar).

If Jack Murtha has his hands in the cookie jar (as appears more than possible), that’s not a good thing and ultimately harms more persons than Ensign flying his ensign in foreign waters.

But Murtha hasn’t been running around sanctimoniously pontificating about other persons’ hands in other cookie jars.

As George Washington Plunkitt famously said, “There’s honest graft and there’s dishonest graft.”

It’s not the affair.

It’s the hypocrisy.

The cut-throat self-righteous sanctimonious hypocrisy which is the dishonest graft of the Republican Party.

The Booman. Read the whole thing.

Addendum:

They did it again.

Addendum-de-dum-dum:

Dum-dum is right.

They just can’t help betraying their maggoty racist innards, now, can they?

Warning: O’Reilly language.

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Words matter. Helen Philpott cuts to the quick:

It’s just not that big of a leap to see a connection between the television news calling someone a Baby Killing Nazi over and over again and some religious fanatic deciding to finally pull the trigger. I get that it is not quite the same as the pie making my ass fat, but I don’t work for Jenny Craig. Bill O’Reilly, however, works for Fox News. The emphasis, of course, is on that last word – News. He should know better. He is paid to know better. He should be fired for not knowing better.

Read the whole thing.

Afterthought: Of course, Fox News won’t fire Bill O’Reilly for not knowing better. They need him to attract and propogate the Know Nothings.

H/T Karen for the link.

Oliver Willis sums it up:

For some time now, as John Lewis noted, the right has done a good job of whipping up hatred and animosity in order to profit from it politically. The problem is, the hate is now consuming the right and spilling blood into the streets. And the right has no intention of pushing back on it. In fact, they’re accelerating it.