Mike Collins, a first-term GOP congressman from Georgia (bio here), made a splash two months ago with a sick Kennedy joke. Responding to RFK Jr.’s claim “a worm ate part of my brain” (story here), Collins joked, “You either die a Kennedy with a hole in the brain, or live long enough [...]
Archive for the ‘Hypocrisy’ Category
Thomas and Alito deserve to be impeached
Justice Thomas took millions in undisclosed gifts, and refused to recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases even though his wife was neck-deep in efforts to overthrow the 2020 election, even calling Trump’s chief of staff. Justice Alito also failed to report expensive gifts, including a luxury fishing [...]
America isn’t a “Christian nation”
Nor should it become one. We should remain a pluralistic society of many religions, and a land of religious liberty. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, known for his clenched-fist salute to January 6 rioters (photo, left), told a conservative group that “Christian nationalism founded American democracy”[...]
June 30th, 2024 - 8:06 pm § in Biden, Democrats, Donald Trump, Hypocrisy, Law and Courts, Politics, Republicans
J. D. Vance suggests only Republican presidents have immunity
Sen. J. D. Vance (R-OH; photo, left) is a Yale-educated lawyer, but not a Supreme Court justice, so he make the rules. Which is just as well, because he has a funny idea of what the rules should be. Appearing on “Face the Nation,” a Sunday talk show, Vance declared “he believes pr[...]
June 14th, 2024 - 9:35 pm § in Hypocrisy, Republicans
GOP candidate’s abortion hypocrisy
Republicans claimed there was voting fraud, so I looked for voting fraud, and found it here (Colorado GOP chairman convicted of voting his ex-wife’s ballot), here (Republican lawyer urged Florida residents to vote in George election), here (3 Pennsylvania Trump supporters charged with voting f[...]
Taking credit where none is due
Nearly every House Republican voted against Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill (details here). That money is now flowing into projects across America, repairing bridges and roads, funding mass transit and highway safety projects, updating power grids, expanding broadband access. Now, ca[...]
How the Allies lost WW2
“We celebrated the 80th anniversary of D-Day. It was a failure,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on Sunday, June 9, 2024 (read story here). Needless to say, this remark invited trolling. Prominent D.C. attorney Bradley Moss said, “Please tell me that’s fake.” Sorry, it&[...]
Semi Bird takes flight on Trump conviction
Misipati Semi Bird (photo, left) wants to be Washington’s next governor. But the Benton County GOP chair and former school board member (profiled here) won’t be, despite an attention-grabbing name that makes you think of a bird with one wing. First he’d have to defeat popular forme[...]
How to sink your own ship
First you point out that you did write a letter to the Transportation Secretary requesting funding for a bridge in your district (page 1 here, page 2 here). Then you remind everybody you voted against the bill containing that funding (more details here). And then you’re an ingrate. Retu[...]
Credentials inflation
Just as bad as sky-high grocery prices, or ridiculous F-150 sticker prices — perhaps worse — is employers demanding degrees for jobs that don’t require them. This forces kids to go to college and rack up student debts they can’t afford which conservatives are adamant must be [...]