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Republican Hypocrisy category archive

Hoist on Their Own Petard 0

Sam and the crew delight in Mike Johnson’s fleeing the stage and at Senator Ron Johnson’s giving the wrong speech when their teleprompters misbehaved, this after years of Republicans ridiculing Democrats for using–wait for it–teleprompters.

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Putting the “Vice” in “Vice President” 0

Thom takes a look at J. D. Vance’s track record. It’s not pretty.

Above the Law has more.

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Responsible Fiscals 0

Yeah. Right.

In actuality, it’s the party of deadbeats.

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Courting Disaster 0

Joe Patrice dissects the duplicity of Cannon’s law.

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Myth Buster 0

In the course of a longer article how, in evaluating candidates for office, we need to look at the big picture when evaluating candidates for office, the Portland Press-Herald’s Victoria Hugo-Vidal makes a trenchant observation (emphasis added):

It’s a common misconception that Republicans want a smaller government. The party does not. Republicans may want smaller government for themselves and their various rich donors, but they want a bigger government to use as a hammer against Americans who aren’t living the way they want them to.

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Immunity Impunity 0

Get out of Jail free cardDer Spiegel talks with Harvard law professor Lawrence Tribe about the Supreme Supremacist Court’s recent decision granting Donald Trump “presidential immunity” for “official acts.” Professor Tribe finds the decision to be–er–of questionable legitimacy.

It is a timely and disturbing read. Here’s a tiny bit of it (emphasis in the original):

DER SPIEGEL: Your Harvard colleagues Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of the book “How Democracies Die,” doubt the democratic legitimacy of the Supreme Court. They see it as dominated by the Republican Party, which has won the popular vote only once in the past 30 years but has appointed six of the nine judges to the Supreme Court. Levitsky and Ziblatt speak of a “tyranny of the minority.”

Tribe: My colleagues in the government department are exactly right. It is a dangerous phenomenon. Minorities are entitled to protection in every respect. But no minority should be able to run roughshod over the majority. After all, it is not a minority of the oppressed that has gained such power in our system. It is the minority of those with the greatest wealth and the best connections. And they are now running the show in a way that is very dangerous to our democracy.

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) rips into the hypocrisy of Republicans’ attempting to punish AG Merrick Garland for refusing to comply with a subpoena while a many Republicans have ignored subpoenas without penalty or protest from their own party.

Via C&L, which has commentary.

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The Courage of His Conniptions 0

Methinks this sets some kind of new record for weasel-wording.

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Law for Sale 0

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Republican Thought Police 0

Thom dissects the duplicity.

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The Royal Court 0

Images of the Capitol, Supreme Court Building, and the White House, labeled

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(Broken link fixed.)

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Next Year 0

John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, and Amy Coney Barret playing the fife and drums leading Alito, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch, all marching under a banner reading

Via Balloon Juice.

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A Celebration . . . 0

. . . or a wake?

Title:  July 4, 2024.  Happy Independence Day!

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The Rule of Flaw 0

Screenshot of Twitter post that reads

Via PoliticalProf, who comments, “That’s about the size of it.”

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The Bell Tolls . . . . 0

Jim Wright is, let’s see here, somewhat pessimistic.

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Coronation Nation 0

David discusses President Biden’s response to the Supreme Supremacist Court’s decision crowning Donald Trump as a sovereign. (Warning: Short promo at the end.)

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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

This time, it is John J. Farmer, Jr., who hears a rhyme.

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*Mark Twain.

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The Perjurors 0

At Above the Law, Joe Patrice delineates the deceit.

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Originalist Sin 0

PoliticalProf parses the perfidy.

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The Rule of Lawless, Reprise 0

Chief Justice Roberts stands next to a chainsawiwielding killer with a

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