Republican Hypocrisy category archive
Paper Trial 0
Lawrence O’Donnell cuts through ex-Trump lawyer Timothy Parlatore’s double-talk on Donald Trump’s theft of government documents.
Via C&L, which has commentary.
This New Gilded Age 0
LZ Granderson wonders whether Republicans have ever read any of the works of Charles Dickens.
Here’s how his article starts:
High school freshman girls should not double as cocktail waitresses at night.
That’s not a sentence I thought needed to be said, but here we are in 2023, and conservative lawmakers in more than 10 states are making efforts to roll back child labor laws. Cocktail waitress is just one of the disturbing occupations floated as appropriate work for children.
Iowa enacted a law last month allowing more kids to work more dangerous jobs. In Arkansas, a 14-year-old would no longer need to show an employer proof of parental approval.
Now the arguments against this movement are painfully obvious, but the so-called case for child labor requires unpacking.
Follow the link for the unpacking.
Afterthought:
As Republicans reintroduce child labor while barring immigrants who are willing to work, I am again reminded of Professor Shade’s mantra, “History is irony.”
Blowback 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier finds himself dismayed, but somehow not surprised, by the reaction of (some) Republicans to President Biden’s announcement of the “U.S. National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.” He observes that
Follow the link for his reasoning.
The Master Plan 0
In his commentary, the artist points out, regarding Kevin McCarthy, that
. . . it’s not up to McCarthy. He has to keep the Freedom Caucus and the fringe weirdos on board if he wants to keep his gavel. You’re not exactly negotiating from a position of power when you can’t afford to lose George Santos.
The Whitewashing 0
The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell takes look at Florida’s whitewashing (here’s a particularly outrageous and stupid example) of America’s history; he finds the implications thereof disturbing because, well, they are. (And, natch, it’s not going on just in Florida.)
A snippet:
The leader of a Holocaust Center made a similar point recently stressing: “The Holocaust, it didn’t start with guns and death camps. It started with words.”
know Them by the Company They Keep Out 0
Methinks my old friend Noz makes a good point.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Joel Mathis takes a withering look at the hypocrisy of Josh Hawley’s response to Durham’s bull. Here’s a tiny bit from his article:
“You can’t interfere in a presidential election,” he said, “without consequences.”
Josh Hawley said that.
Josh Hawley. The same Josh Hawley who on Jan. 6, 2021, led Senate Republican efforts to block the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential victory, based on little more than Trump’s empty and baseless lies about the election.