Republican Hypocrisy category archive
Favoring Faction over Action 0
If this isn’t putting party over country, I know not what could be.
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing.
Self-Incriminated 0
At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Radine Robbins reminds us of Maya Angelou’s statement: When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Courting Disaster 0
Precedented 0
Robert Reich sees a disturbing precedent to the rhetoric and tactics of Donald Trump and his followers.
Just go read it.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini writes about an Arizona legislator who has decided that, well, if you can’t gut out the vote, why not just throw it out completely. A snippet:
Make it legal.
Kern has introduced Senate Concurrent Resolution 1014, which — I am not making this up — allows that “the Legislature, and no other official, shall appoint presidential electors.”
The Oathbreaker 0
An MSNBC panel discusses Donald Trump’s claim that he did not take an oath to “support” the Constitution, only to “preserve, protect, and defend” it. (How “preserve, protect, and defend” does not mean “support” defies me, as it does them.)
They also discuss the various ways in which our current Supreme Supremacist Court may try to weasel out of confronting the core issue.
Swiftvoting 0
Sam and the crew try to figure out the right-wing’s furor over Taylor Swift’s suggesting that citizens should vote.
The Fifth Column 0
In a letter to the editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, self-described Republican Andrew Richardson says that he is fed up with Republican’s preventing the U. S. from aiding Ukraine to defend itself from Russia’s invasion.
I commend his arguments to your attentioin.
The Voter Fraud Fraudsters 0
Republican resurrects deceased voters to sign his petition.
Have you noticed it’s almost always Republicans?
What’s in a Word? 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Ricky Kendall asks (to paraphrase), if January 6 was not an insurrection, what is?
Methinks he is onto something.
A Notion of Immgrants 0
Methinks Atrios pretty much nails it.
Aside:
Today’s Republican Party understands buy-partisan. Indeed, it is a treasured Republican Family Value.
In contrast, it finds the concept of bipartisan repelling.