All Posts Tagged With: "Republican Hypocrisy"
Tuesday’s Asshat of the Day
Here’s another one where I’m not sure whether to give the guy the asshat award or a chutzpah award.
Joe Miller (Teabag-AK), claims that the minimum wage is unconstitutional. I guess Linda McMahon body-slammed him to say this.
Employees in the U.S. should not be provided a federal guarantee of minimum wage, [...]
Stimulus Money: Mike Castle Can’t Quit You
Mike Castle attends another stimulus event. You know, the stimulus which Mike Castle voted against.
27Aug2010 | Unstable Isotope | 8 comments | Continued
Chris Coons Hits Castle on Deficit Hypocrisy
Or maybe we could call this another float in the Mike Castle hypocrisy parade. From a recent Chris Coons press release:
18Aug2010 | cassandra_m | 3 comments | Continued
The Real Feminists
According to the Minnesota GOP, GOP women are hawt, Democratic women are not. Nanny booboo.
18Aug2010 | Unstable Isotope | 15 comments | Continued
Pallin’ Around With Chavez
Multimillionaire Michele Rollins dumped a bunch of Venezuelan oil company stock right before she announced her run for Congress. I’m sure this is just a coincidence, right?
16Aug2010 | Unstable Isotope | 17 comments | Continued
Michele Rollins Joins the “Let Them Eat Want Ads” Caucus
Let The Eat Want Ads — that is what Greg Sargent has named the GOPers who cluelessly think that the reason why people are unemployed is because they get unemployment benefits.
30Jul2010 | cassandra_m | 44 comments | Continued
Parasite: Your Definition May Differ
A Kansas man who displayed a sign on a semi-truck accusing Democrats of being the “party of parasites” has received more than $1M in farm subsidies.
25Jun2010 | Unstable Isotope | 6 comments | Continued
Castle’s Ear(mark)s Are Burning
Representative Mike Castle’s hypocrisy is coming full circle. The News Journal has an indepth article simply entitled, “This Year Castle Opposes Earmarks”.
2Jun2010 | nemski | 7 comments | Continued
They’re Sorry Now!
Arizona passed their law requiring immigrants to prove their legal status and apparently lots of undocumented workers went home rather than live the risk of being caught or even the hassle. Even though this is a pretty despicable law, I’m not going to have any issues with undocumented workers going home. I’ve often wished that the wingnuts who insist that all of the undocumented workers go home would actually get their wish.
23May2010 | cassandra_m | 47 comments | Continued
Conservative Women’s Group Elevates Souder To A Man Above Men
Seriously?
“Those of us who have worked with Mark over the years know him to be a kind and thoughtful legislator. If Mark Souder is capable of sexual misconduct, it could happen to anyone,” said Concerned Women for America CEO Penny Nance in a statement Tuesday. “The frat house environment on Capitol Hill does nothing to [...]
Another “Family Values” Republican Fails To Practice What He Preaches
Typical.
Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN), a champion of abstinence education and traditional family values, will resign effective Friday after an affair with a female staffer in his district office, he announced today.
He said in a statement that he “sinned against God, my wife and my family by having a mutual relationship with a part-time member of [...]
Shameless
The man who would be Speaker of the House, John Boehner, was interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition this morning. Boehner had quite a few things to say, but a particularly interesting exchange was about the new health care reform bill. Boehner is advocating “repeal and replace” of the bill with Republicans’ “common sense” [...]
30Apr2010 | Unstable Isotope | 1 comment | Continued
Republicans’ False Populism
Republicans have been pretty shameless in their attempts to exploit the financial crisis for electoral gain. Even though the bailouts were done under Bush, they’ve managed to pretend it was all Obama’s fault. Now Republicans have been pretty shamelessly pushing talking points that the new financial regulation bill will create more taxpayer bailouts [...]
19Apr2010 | Unstable Isotope | 7 comments | Continued
Too Good for Their Own Taxes
That could be the alternate title of Celia Cohen’s latest soft shoe — this time around Senator Colin Bonini’s past tax issues with the IRS. His tax issues resulted in a lien on his house for a short time.
18Apr2010 | cassandra_m | 17 comments | Continued
Morning Funny — New RNC Logo
Courtesy of the indispensable Crooks and Liars (via the Delawareliberal twitter feed):
30Mar2010 | cassandra_m | 9 comments | Continued
He Was For It Before He Was Against It
As you might have read, President Obama has finally pushed through some recess appointments. Republicans are “upset”. John McCain said he was “very disappointed” and:
Once again the administration showed that it had little respect for the time honored constitutional roles and procedures of Congress
Let’s take the Hot Tub Time Machine back to 2005 when [...]
Hissy Fit
As the passage of health care reform becomes more and more likely, the Republican hissy fits have become more and more vehement and more dishonest. First the Republicans were throwing public tantrums about the use of reconciliation, despite the fact that reconciliation had been used multiple times by Republicans (ones currently servng in the [...]
17Mar2010 | Unstable Isotope | 10 comments | Continued
The Party of Vitter and Ensign
12Mar2010 | cassandra_m | 33 comments | ContinuedDems to GOP: If you say Rangel and Massa, we’ll say Vitter and Ensign.
Conservative Disconnect On Government Intervention – Marriage vs Abortion
It’s no secret that when it comes to abortion the Conservative/Republican motto is the more government intervention the better. Mandatory waiting periods for abortions? Fine with them. A measure “that would require a woman be given a description of ultrasound images of her unborn child and be offered those images before getting an abortion?” Why [...]
9Mar2010 | pandora | 2 comments | Continued
What’s That Word I’m Looking For?
There’s a word that applies here but “ironic” isn’t it:
The vocal opponent of health care reform in the U.S. steered largely clear of the topic except to reveal a tidbit about her life growing up not far from Whitehorse.
“We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada,” she said. “And [...]
DE GOP Abuse of Legislative Perks
That is the topic of a good piece of reporting by Ginger Gibson in this morning’s News Journal, providing some detail how how the GOP spent their budgets to support themselves when they were in control of the House. This report has the feel of a tip of the iceberg — as in there is likely more there to look at.
27Feb2010 | cassandra_m | 59 comments | Continued
Anthony Weiner Explains It All For You
Awesome, really. Would that we had more like him:
25Feb2010 | cassandra_m | 2 comments | Continued
Fiscal Conservatives Don’t Want To Cut Spending
Conservatives do a lot of posturing about the deficit, which they only discovered the existence of on January 20, 2009. I remember the good ol’ days of the early Bush presidency when the problem was the surplus. Well, conservatives are apparently extremely upset with the deficit now, but taxes are still bad (in [...]
25Feb2010 | Unstable Isotope | Comments Off | Continued
Maverick
John McCain is facing a competitive Republican primary for his U.S. Senate seat. He’s facing wingnut former Rep. J.D. Hayworth and even wingnuttier Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Some of McCain’s previous votes are getting him in trouble so he’s trying to Castle. His latest move is to pretend he didn’t really vote for [...]
24Feb2010 | Unstable Isotope | 4 comments | ContinuedFOLLOW DL
