Republican Hypocrisy category archive
The Cost of Kleptocracy 0
Mona Charen asks, then answers, a question. Here’s the question; follow the link for her answer.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The NAACP has suggested that black student athletes to unite against the New Secesh, refusing to attend sports powerhouses (such as UGa., Alabama, FSU, etc.) in states that are attempting to gerrymander minority voters out of existence. Rick Stron discusses this.
(In the first two minutes, you can watch the New Secesh come out from under their hoods and show themselves. It’s pretty scary.)
American Stasi 0
Yet another persons held in an ICE detention center concentration camp tells his story.
Just read it, and, as you do, remind yourself that this is being done in the name of liberty and justice for all..
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
At Above the Law, Liz Dye explores Donald Trump’s claims that he and his staff have the right to destroy official documents in defiance of long-established law. Almost as an aside, she notes the irony:
Follow the link for context.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
What would you think, for example, when this is the company that they keep?
The Rule of Lawless 0
Thom wonders, “What happens when a President stops following the Constitution?”
Republican Thought Police 0
At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino takesa deep look at the Trump maladministration’s campaign against the American Bar Association. Here’s a bit from her article (emphasis added):
Afterthought:
“Ideologically hostile” indeed.
Ideologically hostile to the rule of lawless maybe.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Field explains why today’s Republican Party is determined to gut out the vote.
Republican Family Values, American Stasi Dept. 0
In the midst of a longer article about conditions at a privately-owned ICE detention center concentration camp, New Jersey Congressman Rob Menendez offers his theory as to why the Republican-controlled House and Senate are resisting efforrs to look into conditions at said locations:
Methinks he may be onto something. Follow the link for the context of his comment.
And, while we’re on the subject . . . .
An Ode to the Artist of the Con 0
- There’s a reason they’re called “con artists.”
Verily the proof of their art is
When they can take home vast profits
Simply by picking their own pockets.
Establishmentarians 0
Michael in Norfolk looks at Republicans’ flouting of the Constitutional mandate for separation of church and state.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
CNN’s Jake Tapper argues that Stephen Colbert rhymes with Thomas Beckett.
Read the article. The rhyme is not so farfetched as it sounds.
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*Nark Twain.
In Translation 0
John Amato decodes de code:
Follow the link for context.
All the News that Fits 0
SFgate’s Drew Magary argues that much of the coverage of the current redistricting efforts designed to gut out the vote of the midterm elections is missing the point. Methinks he makes a valid point.
Here’s a tiny bit of his article:
(snip)
So not only are you and I being subjected to a coordinated plan by the GOP to nullify this fall’s election results before Americans have even gotten a chance to vote, but also to an accompanying disinformation campaign from the establishment media to posit this as just another political tussle. It is not. It is villainy, villainy of the crassest sort.
The entire article is well-worth the few minutes it will take you to read it.