Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH; bio here, photo below), who is a lawyer but never served in the military (bio here), and doesn’t know squat about classified information and may not even know what “secret” means, sparred with CNN‘s Brianna Keilar on Sunday, August 14, 2022, over Trump[...]
Archive for the ‘Hypocrisy’ Category
Why Republicans have no credibility with a majority of Americans
Let’s start with this: They don’t deserve any, and most people can connect those two dots. They lie, all the time, about everything, and dishonesty will cost you credibility. They’re incompetent; everything they touch goes bad (e.g., the deregulation that led to the 1980s and 2000s[...]
Ron DeSantis’s hypocrisy
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis (photo, left), who wants to be president, suspended Tampa’s twice-elected Democratic prosecutor on Thursday, August 4, 2022, “for pledging not to enforce the state’s new 15-week abortion ban and for supporting gender-affirming treatments for minorsR[...]
Republican celebrates bombing of “Satanic” monument
Granted, Kandiss Taylor isn’t a typical candidate. She’s extreme even by Republican standards, having lost the Georgia GOP governor’s primary by over 70% (see results here), but still refusing to concede (see story here). And she has no problem with blowing up monuments she doesn&#[...]
Had enough of this yet?
Republicans talk about responsibility; let’s make them practice it. They had a chance to ban assault weapons, or at least raise the age for buying them. They refused. Solution? Vote against them until they straighten out. (Note: Conservatives are explicit about why they, as private citizens, &[...]
How Texas plans to prevent more school shootings
“Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that the Uvalde school shooter had a ‘mental health challenge’ and the state needed to ‘do a better job with mental health,'” NBC News reported on Monday, June 20, 2022. Then added, “— yet in April he slashed $211 million from t[...]
What Tucker Carlson thinks an “insurrection” is
After noting that, “Several crew members filming a comedy segment at the U.S. Capitol for ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ were charged with unlawful entry earlier this week,” Huffington Post says Tucker Carlson claimed on his show, “Last night, producers from Steph[...]
Ted Cruz on gun safety
You may want to have a barf bag handy for this one. But then, that’s pretty much true of anything involving Ted Cruz, who stood smiling on a debate stage while Donald Trump accused his father of complicity in JFK’s assassination, and fled to Mexico when the Texas power grid failed and so[...]
Congressman blames Congress for gun inaction
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), whose district includes Uvalde, blames Congress for inaction on guns. An NBC reporter questioned him about gun legislation the day after the Uvalde school massacre (story here) and got the following circular argument from a congressman who obviously doesn’t want to d[...]
Clarence Thomas’s supreme hypocrisy
From Huffington Post, May 14, 2022 (see story here): “Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas clutched his pearls on Friday as he regarded Americans so distraught over the prospect of losing human rights in their country that some showed up at justices’ Washington-area homes to address the peo[...]