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Republican Hypocrisy category archive

If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

David highlights the hypocrisy (warning: short commercial at the end, which you needn’t watch, but what comes before it is well worth a listen).

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The Witch Trial 0

Seth dissects the duplicity of Republicans’ effort to impeach President Biden for the high crime and misdemeanor of not being a racist bigoted Putin tool.

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The Fifth Column, Reprise 0

Title:  Latest Border Crisis.  Image:  Train of GOP Elephants marching across a river from a bank labled

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“I Know You Are But What Am I,” Reprise 0

The Rude One analyzes the Republican game plan. (Warning: Rudeness.)

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Courting Disaster 0

Gene Collier, writing at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, fears that the current Supreme Supremacist Court is forsaking the rule of law for the rule of flaw. A snippet:

The Court’s ability to grasp what is plainly and legally obvious, you might remember, is another foundational American pillar that ain’t what it used to be.

Follow the link to see why he said that.

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A Voter Fraud Fraudster 0

Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!

Have you noticed that, when one gets caught, he or she almost always turn out to be a Republican?

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Our Polite Society 0

Thom discusses America’s most exceptional exceptionalism.

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The Squeaker of the House 0

. . . foments disorder in the House.

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Republican Family Values 0

At the Tampa Bay Times, Daniel Ruth comes out of retirement to call out the con(s).

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The Party of the New Secesh 0

In a letter to the editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Gerald Kreienkamp argues that Republicans aren’t even trying to hide it anymore.

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Kevin McCarthy Plays “What’s My Spine?” 0

Farron points out that Kevin McCarthy lacks the courage of his conniptions.

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The Malignant Tuber 0

Caption:  Coach Tuberville.  Image:  Tommy Tuberville being carried on the shoulders of a football team, whose players inclue China, Russia, Iran, etc.

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The Hunt for Hunter 0

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‘Tis the Season . . . . 0

Caption:  Letters from the frontlines of the War on Christmas.  Image;  Republican Elephant in a WWI style trench is writing a letter:

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Looking at recent shenanigans involving the North Carolina state supreme court, UNC law professor Gene Nichol suggests that they embody a simple principle:

If the truth hurts, hurt the truth-teller.

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Argle Bargle 0

At Above the Law, Liz Dye looks at the latest I-guess-you-have-to-call-them arguments and tries to make sense out of the senseless. What it boils down to, natch, is attempting to use the law to argue that Donald Trump is exempt from the law.

A sample:

This jiujitsu logic comes from Trump’s reply in support of his motion to dismiss the DC case for selective and vindictive prosecution. Never before has a president been prosecuted for crimes, he argues. Ipso facto propter hoc, selective prosecution! Trump conveniently ignores the hundreds of other January 6 plaintiffs who have been prosecuted, many under the same obstruction and conspiracy statutes he’s charged with here. None of those weirdos is president, right?

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Meanwhile, at the RNC . . . . 0

Two Republican strategists are talking.  First:  I don't understand the results of the last election at all.  Our strategy of denying people's basic bodily autonomy, taking a rights they've held for decades, and generally promoting authoritarianism . . . .  Second:  . . . seemes to be less popular than we anticipanted.  First:  I can't help but wonder--are we . . . out of touch?  Second:  No.  It's the voters who are wrong.  We have a messaging problem.  Even our long-standing

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

UNC lap professor Gene Nichol questionss Republicans’ efforts to gut out the (black) vote in North Carolina. Here’s one of his questions:

When North Carolina Republicans again deploy some of the most aggressively distorted redistricting practices in American history to further a radically anti-egalitarian legislative agenda — to entrench that agenda permanently into the social and political life of North Carolina — can it actually be that the 14th and 15th Amendments are untroubled?

More questions at the link.

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The Hunter Becomes the Hunter 0

Hunter Biden is starting fight back in court. Here’s a bit from the report at Above the Law:

He blames Republican political pressure for the withdrawal of his plea deal and the decision of Special Counsel David Weiss to charge him in the instant case for denying that he was a habitual drug user on a gun application in 2018.

“That outside pressure culminated in Special Counsel Weiss’s then changing course and bringing this Indictment on September 14 against Mr. Biden, charging three felony counts for the same gun and same facts that just a few months prior Mr. Weiss had agreed to divert under a pre-trial diversion agreement,” his lawyer Abbe Lowell wrote.

I have no doubt that if Hunter’s last name were, just to pick something out thin air, Smith or Jones, the not-much-of-a-burger case against him would have never gotten as far as it has.

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Future, Tense (Reprise) 0

Title:  Second Inaugural.  Image:  Justice Robers says to Donald Trump,

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