Republican Hypocrisy category archive
The Crash the Economy Dummies 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier has some questions about today’s Republican Party:
Follow the link for his answer. (Hint: He is less than sanguine.)
Aside:
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing willing to sacrifice the honor and integrity of the nation on the altar of faction.
Standoff 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, David P. Barash offers a perspective on the current impasse between those would preserve the full faith and credit of the United States of Americaand those who would destroy said full faith and credit for short-term political gain.
Aside:
Yeah, I know my wording is–er–less than dispassionate, but, really, that’s what it boils down to.
Fact-Checking the Graham Cracker 0
David suggests that the Graham Cracker needs to get out of his propaganda bubble and deal with facts.
(Like that’s going to happen.)
Precedented 0
George B. Dew sees an historical precedent for Florida Governor DeSantis.
It’s King George III.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
This New Gilded Age 0
Michael in Norfolk minces no words in discussing Republicans’ efforts to return our society to a Dickensian dystopia. An excerpt:
Responsible Fiscals 0
Decoding de Code 0
Jamelle Bouie explains what Republicans mean when they say “parents’ rights”:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Louisiana Republicans want to ban history because truth is divisive might open someone’s eyes.
We are a society of stupid.
Doubting Thomas 2
At AL.com, Frances Coleman looks at Justice Clarence Thomas’s acceptance of largess (actually, multiple largesses over multiple decades) from a politically active right-wing moneybags and reminds us that can appearances matter. A snippet:
A judge breaks the rule even if he (or she) does things that don’t affect his decisions, but where a reasonable and well-informed person would believe that his conduct would affect his decisions.
Disenfranchising Dense Demographics 0
At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kevin McDermott argues that, in states where they have control, Republicans are are waging urban warfare, that is, warfare against urbans. A snippet:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
The Party of Nope 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the Portland Press-Herald points out that it takes two to tango.
