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Category Archives: Hypocrisy

Republicans demand mercy

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

You truly couldn’t make this sort of thing up: House Republican freshmen admit that their so-called “MediScare” attacks on Democrats helped them win a big majority in 2010. Democrats had voted for the health care law, which included $500 billion in “cuts” to Medicare — primarily slashing overpayments to private insurers — and Republican challengers […]

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Like Mother, Like Daughter, Grifters both

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

They truly know no shame: In 2009, Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol joined a teen pregnancy prevention nonprofit called the Candie’s Foundation. Today, the Associated Pressreported that the Candie’s Foundation released its 2009 tax information, revealing that Bristol was paid a salary of $262,500. But a closer examination of the tax form by ThinkProgress shows that […]

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The last refuge is a crowded place, but where’s Barack?

Friday, March 11, 2011

Newt Gingrich left his first wife while she had cancer, even going so far as to go to her hospital room to talk about divorce terms, with which he promptly failed to abide. That was all to clear the decks for wife number two, who he later ditched for his present spouse, who was giving […]

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Great minds

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

I believe it was Emerson who said that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”. The operative word is “foolish”, but that is often ignored. Among American conservatives, there are apparently no little minds, as they are comfortably inconsistent, whether foolishly or not. They have of late been proving their minds are not […]

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Values

Monday, October 18, 2010

Sometime today I read a blog, or a news article, or something, in which it was observed that the now further compromised Rob Simmons (link) was unable to use Linda’s WWE connections to make a dent in Linda’s support during the primary season, yet it seems that her checkered past is having a substantial negative […]

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The power of prayer

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Former (thank god the forces of nature that drive all things) Congressman Mark Souder, the deeply devout Christian can’t understand why he couldn’t stop [insert your favorite word for the act here] his abstinence touting mistress, even after praying to Jehovah: “I prayed multiple times a day, sang hymns with emotion and tears, felt each […]

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Haven’t we heard this story before?

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Are there any right wing anti-gay preachers who aren’t gay? (via Kos): On April 13, the “rent boy” (whom we’ll call Lucien) arrived at Miami International Airport on Iberian Airlines Flight 6123, after a ten-day, fully subsidized trip to Europe. He was soon followed out of customs by an old man with an atavistic mustache […]

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New Heights of Hypocrisy

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

If they gave a Nobel Prize in Hypocrisy, these folks would be joint winners. The switchers who voted no on cloture but yes today: Lamar Alexander (R-TN) Thad Cochran (R-MS) James Inhofe (R-OK)George LeMieux (R-FL) Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)Roger Wicker (R-MS) And those who were absent Monday but voted yes today: Orrin Hatch (R-UT) Richard Burr […]

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The Supreme Challenge

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Via Think Progress: Business groups are worried by the potential effects of provisions banning the import of all goods made with convict labor, forced labor, or forced or indentured child labor that were included in a customs bill sponsored by Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-IA) Business sources say […]

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Scalia, a hypocrite for all seasons

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Antonin Scalia has a problem. His intellectual dishonesty is showing: If there is a topic Justice Antonin Scalia does not relish discussing, it is how he would have voted in Brown v. Board of Education had he been on the Supreme Court when it was decided in 1954.… The Brown decision, which said the 14th […]

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