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Category Archives: Hypocrisy

Why should I care whether Roger Clemens took steroids?

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Every Red Sox fan knows that there is no worm more low than a former member of the Boston Red Sox who voluntarily plays for the Yankees. Besides that, even when he was on the team, Roger Clemens was a gold plated [your choice of private body part here]. So, I have very little sympathy […]

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New rules in the Senate

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Harry Reid teams up with Mitch McConnell to lecture Chris Dodd: only Republicans get to declare filibuster and win. Democrats, members of the majority party, members of Reid’s own party, have to actually filibuster. New rules: it takes 60 votes to get something Democrats want; it takes only 51 to get something Republicans want, and […]

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This attack on corporate America brought to you by Wal-Mart

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Yesterday my wife and I went to the Stroll in Mystic, and stopped in to see Dan Curland at the Mystic Disc. Dan told us that he has had to concentrate more on selling vinyl these days. Downloading is part of it, but a large part of the problem stems from monopolistic or semi-monopolistic practices […]

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Yet another Bushie exempts himself from the criminality

Monday, November 19, 2007

Supposedly, this is an excerpt from Scott McClellan’s new book: The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front […]

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Random notes on Republicans

Friday, October 5, 2007

Isn’t there an old saw about things coming in threes? If that’s the case, there’s one more Republican about to be exposed for playing footsie in a men’s room somewhere. Hypocrite number two is small game compared to Craig (via Talking Points), but he just proves that the party is infested from top to bottom. […]

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A Challenge for the Democrats

Monday, September 24, 2007

We may soon find out just how scared the Democrats are of looking insufficiently tough. Paradoxically, of course, they show their toughness by weakly caving to every Republican attack, See, e.g., the anti-Moveon Resolution. Now we will find out if there are any limits to just how crazy the Republicans, and how craven the Democrats, […]

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A Republican genetic disorder in the news again

Saturday, September 22, 2007

This story (making the rounds on the internet with the most recent mention I’ve seen at TPM) is further proof of the existence of a disease that appears to strike Republicans disproportionately: one issue liberalism. I’ve remarked on this before. This time the sufferer is the mayor of San Diego, who ran for office vowing […]

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What report?

Friday, September 7, 2007

Apparently the question of the authorship of the Petreaus report has been settled. Originally, Petreaus was going to write it; then the White House was going to write it. Now, apparently, it will simply not be written: In the latest twist to the ongoing saga over the Petraeus White House report, a senior military official […]

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Time for Craig to spend more time with his dog

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog Harry Truman Somewhere, there’s a dog about to be befriended, as Wide Stance Larry Craig has lately learned that Harry had it exactly right. All his old friends, who no doubt knew he was not gay all along, are demanding his resignation. To name a […]

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Yet another gay Republican hypocrite

Monday, August 27, 2007

I have now learned more than I really ever wanted to know about Senator Larry Craig’s sexual habits and preferences and the rituals by which sad and sordid people like him pursue their pleasures. As you may have heard today, he recently pled guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct, which conduct consisted of trying […]

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