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Category Archives: Hypocrisy

Most hypocritical statement in history?

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

John Kerry on Russia: “it is not appropriate to invade a country, and at the end of the barrel of a gun dictate what you are trying to achieve. That is not 21st-century, G-8, major nation behavior.” Iraq, anyone?

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A Mystery

Friday, February 7, 2014

Here's something that has me completely bolloxed. I learned today that: Medicare is paying “grossly excessive” amounts for vacuum erection systems, informally known as penis pumps, which are generally used by men who fail to cure their erectile dysfunction problem with drugs such as Viagra. via Talking Points Memo This actually has me bolloxed on […]

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Hypocrisy, Texas style

Thursday, October 17, 2013

No additional comment needed: After years of trying to undermine the Affordable Care Act, Texas lawmakers are suddenly embracing President Obama’s signature domestic policy accomplishment. On Thursday, the Texas Tribune reported that the state is shuttering a state-based health care program and encouraging Texans to sign-up for coverage in the federally-run health care exchange. Texas’ […]

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21st Century Potemkin Village

Monday, June 3, 2013

A wise man once said: “Some things in life are bad. They can really make you mad. Other things just make you swear and curse.” This one is probably of the swear and curse variety. Seems that the upcoming G-8 summit is being held in a little Northern Ireland town that has been particularly hard […]

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Con Men All

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

This type of thing is probably not unprecedented, but it’s particularly galling in a political environment in which it takes massive public pressure to even get debate on a bill people want, never mind an actual vote. Last year, to much fanfare, and with support from both parties, Congress passed the STOCK act, an act […]

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Great moments in hypocrisy

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Given today’s partisan reality, Jack Lew breezed through his confirmation. Comparisons to confirmations past are irrelevant. Any Obama nomination that is even allowe a vote without a filibuster or at least protracted delay has to be considered a breeze; any nomination that gets more than three Republican votes has to be considered a landslide (and […]

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Pundits and hypocrites

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

David Atkins, at Hullabaloo makes the legitimate point that the punditocracy has insisted on treating expressed concerns about the deficit as real, when recent and current history establishes quite definitively that the deficit scolds (Krugman’s spot on term) are really only interested in slashing benefits for everyone who isn’t them. But I take issue, sort […]

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Heal yourselves

Saturday, September 29, 2012

We’ve been hearing a lot about voter fraud from the Republicans, but it is little noted nor long remembered that what few examples we have of the practice have been committed by Republican operatives. In person voter fraud is almost unknown, except when committed by little Republican criminals trying to prove it could be done. […]

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Where do they find these people?

Thursday, September 27, 2012

No comment needed: Mia Love has made her Haitian immigrant family’s bootstraps story the centerpiece of her campaign to become the first black Republican woman elected to Congress. But on Monday, Mother Jones raised some serious questions about the Utah congressional candidate’s public statements about her family’s immigration story, which she’s used to justify a […]

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How to solve the “debt crisis”

Sunday, June 17, 2012

  This morning, Dean Baker responds to yet another know-nothing right wing rant about the deficit, by suggesting we can solve the deficit problem by hiring unemployed college grads to write equally ignorant pieces about the deficit. But this piece suggests an easy route for dealing with the deficit. Clearly there is a big market […]

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