Republican Lies category archive
Numbers Gaming 0
Congressional Republicans are designing a poke for their pig.
Much more at the link.
Vaccine Nation 0
In an article at the Washington Monthly, Bill Scher admits that he is less than sanguine about the Republican Party’s decision to abandon medical science. Here’s a tiny bit of his article (emphasis added):
Fears that the Kennedy appointment will lead to dire public health consequences ratcheted up this week with the abrupt cancellation of an annual Food and Drug Administration meeting necessary to select strains for the next flu season vaccine.
Sabotaging the flu vaccine will kill people.
(Broken link fixed.)
DOGE Bulls in the China Shop 0
Trump voter is hoist on her own petard.
But wait! There’s more.
Video via C&L, which has commentary.
DOGE Bull, One More Time 0
Kevin D. Williamson calls out the DOGE bull. Here’s a bit from his article (emphasis added):
Now, there’s stuff in Williamson’s screed that I don’t agree with, mostly some of the generalizations that he makes about how stuff should work. Nevertheless, given said disagreements, he has a much clearer notion of what governance should be than does the current federal administration. And, after all, there’s only one person I agree with all the time, and he’s typing these letters right now . . . .
All the News that Fits 0
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Will Bunch covers Donald Trump’s efforts to curtail freedom of the press, from banning the AP from Air Force One for not using the Trumpian term, “Gulf of America,” to threatening local news outlets with reprisals if they dare to (gasp!) report breaking news. In his article, Bunch points that this assault on the Constitution has been brewing for some time.
I commend the entire article to your attention.
DOGE Bull 0
Evidence mounts that Elon Musk’s DOGE has no idea how government works, it also doesn’t know what it’s doing.
The Lake Effect 0
Kari Lake serves as a megaphone to multiply the mendacity.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
In a letter to the editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about today’s Republican Party’s war on DEI, Suzanne Moynihan decodes de code.
DOGE Ball 0
Security maven Bruce Schneier looks at how Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (which, incidentally, is not a government department in any legitimate sense of the term) has compromised federal computer systems and concludes that it can legitimately be considered a cyberattack on “the sinews of government.”
Here is a little bit from his article:
Definitively Speaking 0
Republicans have been accusing NPR and PBS of spreading “far left” news.
Just to be clear, in Republicans’ eyes–er–ears, “far left” news, regardless of the source, is any news that Republicans don’t want (you) to know about.
The Constitutional Scholar 0
PoliticalProf does his own research.
Disappeared 0
If it’s not on the website, then it never happened.
Establismentarians, Boebert Is the New Gohmert Dept. 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Nick Gier skewers Lauren Boebert’s fanciful and fabricated claim that the United States Constitution does not–er–establish separation of church and state. He reminds her that
Follow the link for the wealth of historical evidence that he musters.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
A Texas judge who was dealing with immigration case decided to visit the Texas-Mexico border. What he found was not what we’re being told. Here’s a tiny bit from his article:
Follow the link for some of the lessons he learned.
Countering Chaos Agents 0
Thom offers some pointers on how to deal with the flood of lies.