Republican Hypocrisy category archive
The Noaccount Recount 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini responds to those question why he opposes the Arizona’s Senate’s “recount” of Maricopa County’s Presidential election results, if he believes (as he does) that there was no tomfoolery in the first place. A nugget; follow the link for the rest.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Sasha Abramsky rounds up a list of new liberty limits from around the nation and considers the implications thereof. A snippet:
Where I used to live, I had neighbors who regularly volunteered as poll workers. It meant 16-hour days, which they gave freely because they believed in democratic ideals and the concept of the common good, things the Republican Party appears to have abandoned.
The Truth-Shirkers 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini wonders why the Republican leadership is dead-set against a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 invasion of the Capitol. Here’s a bit of his article; follow the link for the rest.
Ever since the insurrection of Jan. 6 at the nation’s Capitol there have been accusations by Republicans that the mob was not made up of Trump-inspired seditionists but had somehow been manipulated by “the left” and infiltrated by antifa or Black Lives Matter and it was them who got folks all riled up.
Arizona’s crank-in-chief, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar, has called the insurrectionists “peaceful patriots” and during an appearance on a right-wing online program actually suggested that House Democratic leadership “aided and abetted” the rioters.
OK then.
Here was a chance to prove it.
(Misplet wrod correxed.)
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell discusses an in-depth investigation of voter fraud that found no there there. He recalls that the opening of the investigation was surrounded with sanctimonious ballyhoo about protecting the integrity of the voting process. And he wonders
Then why hasn’t she done that since the investigation finished and concluded nothing improper happened?
Follow the link to see how he answers the question–and why he answers as he does.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Mother Jones follow the money.
The Excommunication 0
Frankly, I consider Liz Cheney’s political positions to be odious, but at least she is odious with integrity . . .
. . . integrity a being quality that the rest of her party seems to lack.
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