Republican Hypocrisy Thread

[Carnal_Flower]

I catch them in massive hypocrisies about ten times a day and then tend to forget it about five minutes later.

Thought I would start a running thread.


Watched Seth Myers and Trevor Noah last night. Both had reels of clips of the Republicans from 2009 crying and pissing and moaning that Obama was jamming, JAMMING!! Obamacare through "in the middle of the night!'" "away from public scruntiny!!" "with no accountability!!!". John Boehner practically had a stroke on the House Floor. The HORROR!!!

Fact: It actually took Obamacare about 11 months to get through, after being reviewed and discussed and analyzed by everyone.

2017: Republicans try to ram through the AHA in three weeks. Start a massive spin campaign before the OMB has looked at it. Offer NO feedback from doctors, hospitals, patient advocate groups. The public has to look for "accountability" through the fake news reporting.

Thursday, they make radical changes "in the middle of the night" and try to force a vote the next day, before it's been analyzed, discussed, and debated, with ZERO to SLIM public scrutiny, and before some of the Reps who are supposed to vote on it have even seen what's in it.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

At a public hearing where the FBI Director James Comey confirms the bombshell revelation that the FBI is conducting an official investigation into possible "coordination" between the Trump campaign and Russian, Republicans on the panel ask not a single question about that. Instead they spend all their time crying about the ""FELONIUS" leaks that have emerged. Punishable up to 10 years! Compromising Classified Information!! Hurting Private Citizens! This is the real story, not the "Coordination."

Three days later, the Chairman of the Intel Committee runs, not walks, to the WH before briefing the other Committee members to LEAK classified information learned as part of the probe to the very subjects of that probe.

In the process, commits a possible felony, betrays private citizens and compromises classified intelligence.

Republicans say nothing and happily keep him on the panel

 

[Boxlicker101]

At a public hearing where the FBI Director James Comey confirms the bombshell revelation that the FBI is conducting an official investigation into possible "coordination" between the Trump campaign and Russian, Republicans on the panel ask not a single question about that. Instead they spend all their time crying about the ""FELONIUS" leaks that have emerged. Punishable up to 10 years! Compromising Classified Information!! Hurting Private Citizens! This is the real story, not the "Coordination."

Three days later, the Chairman of the Intel Committee runs, not walks, to the WH before briefing the other Committee members to LEAK classified information learned as part of the probe to the very subjects of that probe.

In the process, commits a possible felony, betrays private citizens and compromises classified intelligence.

Republicans say nothing and happily keep him on the panel

Where on Earth did you see or hear or read this? http://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-intelligence-committee-chairman-discusses-recent-leaks-to-media/

 

[Carnal_Flower]

That article is from Feb. 19

Nunes did his backhanded tattling THIS week

Where on Earth did you see or hear or read this? http://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-intelligence-committee-chairman-discusses-recent-leaks-to-media/

 

[Boxlicker101]

That article is from Feb. 19

Nunes did his backhanded tattling THIS week

Although you still haven't given your source, I will assume it was this: https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/03/22/devin-nunes-commits-felonious-leaking/

Nunes is asking people to pass info on to the House Intel Committee. That is certainly not leaking.

I'm also not sure how reliable this source is, but it is not a normal news source, such as a newspaper or wire service.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Read the news, you'll find it.

Nunes is not asking people to pass info on to the House Intel Committee.

He went straight to the White House.

Devin Nunes Puts Credibility of House Panel He Leads in Doubt

WASHINGTON — Representative Devin Nunes, the California Republican who is chairman of a House panel investigating Russian interference in the presidential election, may have dealt his own inquiry a fatal blow on Wednesday.

Armed with intelligence that some Republicans said bolstered President Trump’s widely disputed claim of being wiretapped by the Obama administration [it does not], Mr. Nunes bypassed Democrats and went directly to the White House. The new information, Mr. Nunes said, showed that American intelligence agencies monitoring foreign officials may have “incidentally” picked up communications of Trump transition team members. [That's leaking classified information and breaching privacy]

The move angered Democrats who said that Mr. Nunes’s attempt to buttress Mr. Trump’s accusation raised questions about his ability to conduct an impartial bipartisan investigation.

The House Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat, Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, issued a challenge, saying that Mr. Nunes had to decide whether he was chairman of an independent investigation or “is going to act as a surrogate of the White House, because he cannot do both.”

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The point about this is

a. The Trump team is under investigation and he knows it--for possible criminal investigation. Since when do you run to the subject of a probe giving them info/tipping them off?
b. Why did he give news conferences about it?
c. WHY didn't he bring this to the (supposedly) impartial, bipartisan committee first?
d. Nunes has not adequately explained his actions--not where he got his info, why he leaked it to Trump
e. Nunes apologized to the House Committee on Thursday because he knew he did something wrong
f. John McCain and several other (R)s joined (D)s in saying this was improper and it calls the impartiality of the Committee into doubt
g. He leaked information he should not have leaked, when he and the other (R)s supposedly are freaked out about leaking, which makes him and the others HYPOCRITES

This has been covered on all the major news outlets this week

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nunes-backs-down-assertion-trump-was-monitored-n738151

Although you still haven't given your source, I will assume it was this: https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/03/22/devin-nunes-commits-felonious-leaking/

Nunes is asking people to pass info on to the House Intel Committee. That is certainly not leaking.

I'm also not sure how reliable this source is, but it is not a normal news source, such as a newspaper or wire service.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Ah, here's a good one.

Sean Hannity, October 2016.

A president under FBI investigation would present "a major Constitutional crisis"

Akk! Eek! OMG! Severe damage to this country! And the office of the Presidency! Crooked Hillary! Cannot be Sworn in if She's Under Investigation!

Major Constitutional Crisis! (If it's Hillary)

Crickets (If it's Trump)

Hypocritical Sacks of Shit

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Conservatives disagree philosophically with the very concept of insurance as most Americans experience it.

Insurance means spreading risk, which is a form of redistribution. Republicans postured against Obamacare from the left, denouncing its high deductibles and premiums, and promising a better, cheaper plan that would cover everybody. Their plan, inevitably, did the opposite. All politicians overpromise, of course. But the Republicans did more than overpromise. They delivered a policy directionally opposed to their promises.

It is not possible to write a bill that meets public standards for acceptable health-insurance coverage within the parameters of conservative ideology. It is possible — just barely — to write a bill that meets public standards for acceptable health-insurance coverage within the parameters of liberal ideology. The form taken by Obama’s health-care reform will change over the decades to come. But its central triumph, creating a federal right to access to basic medical care, will never be taken away.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/why-obamacare-defeated-trumpcare.html

"...the moralists who impeached a president (Bill Clinton) because of his low character and lies are now silent when it comes to the putrid excrescence now preening in the Oval Office."


http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...cal-gravity-finally-sinking-donald-trump.html

 

[urguyscott]

"Fact: It actually took Obamacare about 11 months to get through, after being reviewed and discussed and analyzed by everyone."

Wow. But what about Princess Nancy when she confessed that "Now that Obamacare is law we can find out what is in it."? Or the fact that Obama, the Mayor of Chicago and his brother and several others who were responsible for the "law" all admitted that they lied about what was in it so it would get passed. That is was pushed by the Party Heads without any real feed back or debate?

Next Fact you are going to put on here: "the world is flat, it starts in Washington and ends in Hollywood." "All reality shows are real." "Clinton's Foundation really was a charity."

 

[phrodeau]

"Fact: It actually took Obamacare about 11 months to get through, after being reviewed and discussed and analyzed by everyone."

Wow. But what about Princess Nancy when she confessed that "Now that Obamacare is law we can find out what is in it."? Or the fact that Obama, the Mayor of Chicago and his brother and several others who were responsible for the "law" all admitted that they lied about what was in it so it would get passed. That is was pushed by the Party Heads without any real feed back or debate?

Next Fact you are going to put on here: "the world is flat, it starts in Washington and ends in Hollywood." "All reality shows are real." "Clinton's Foundation really was a charity."

Nice sandwich. Two facts with bullshit between them.

 

[someoneyouknow]

I saw a pic a few minutes ago which said, more or less:

Not once have Republicans tried to cut Trump's weekend vacations before they cut food assistance to Americans.

By the same token, these are same people who keep talking about a fetus having rights and want to tell a woman what she can and can't do with her own body, then go and cut funding for pre-natal care.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Why that reminds me of a few others off the top of my head:

--Crying and whining for 8 years about paying for Obama to vacation in Hawaii.

--Crying and whining about Obama playing too much golf

--Crying and whining about Obama governing through "executive order"

--Crying and whining about Crooked Hillary and her e-mails, while saying NOTHING about Trump discussing national security out in the open at a Florida restaurant on his smartphone

I saw a pic a few minutes ago which said, more or less:

Not once have Republicans tried to cut Trump's weekend vacations before they cut food assistance to Americans.

By the same token, these are same people who keep talking about a fetus having rights and want to tell a woman what she can and can't do with her own body, then go and cut funding for pre-natal care.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

If those items are not two glaring search lights of hypocrisy, I do not know what is.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

The Obstructionist Party who vowed to deny everything to Barack Obama for 8 years and tried to say he was an illegitimate President whining and crying and complaining about Trump Protests.

That's hypocrisy in action

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Nunes so Concerned About Leaks He's Leaking from the White House

Nunes made a little stop at the White House the day before his little press conference.

What a hypocritical little rat bastard!!

 

[someoneyouknow]

Republicans like to crow about state's rights. The right to discriminate, the right to ban abortions and so on. Now Republicans are doing the very thing they say they're for: overturning state's rights to help people save for retirement.

They're claiming it's because the Obama-era regulation allowed a loophole around consumer protection. This coming from the same party who wants to get rid of the Federal Consumer Protection Agency.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/30/retirement/state-ira-senate-vote/index.html

Talk about killing two birds with one hypocritical stone. Then again this is the same party who likes to talk about competition then writes laws at all levels of government to prevent competition in the broadband industry, thus ensuring we pay the highest prices for some of the slowest speeds in the industrialized world.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Donald Trump praises equality on March 29
Women's Empowerment Panel

Melania praises equality on March 28,
Melania showed up at the State Department on Wednesday morning to deliver a speech at the 2017 Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Awards



Ivanka praises equality on March 27
Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka said Monday she had accepted an initiation from German Chancellor Angela Merkel to visit Berlin next month for an empowerment conference.

March 30
Mike Pence removes the possibility of equality, for millions of women.


https://mobile.twitter.com/tonyposnanski/status/847236977313202176


https://mobile.twitter.com/NARAL/status/847600413918453761


“Mike Pence went from yesterday’s forum on empowering women to today leading a group of male politicians in a vote to take away access to birth control and cancer screenings,” she said.


http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/senate-gop-needs-pence-break-tie-family-planning-funds/

 

[urguyscott]

Funny but its true, Obama and his cohorts lied about everything in Obama Care. My sister worked for a different company than her husband but was on his insurance at the time. His company went over to the Obama Care Exchange and they said she was no longer covered because she had insurance at her job. After cut backs she got back on her husbands insurance, but by now it was a mess. Her son broke his foot and walked on it thinking it was a sprain and later fainted and was taken to the hospital. They billed the family $3,600.00 She called and was told that the Obama Care deduction was $3,000!!!! And that the doctors gave their son a drug test without asking permission of the family because he fainted. It was negative and was caused by the sudden pain. But the deal is that under Obama Care they didn't have to ask the parents permission or let them chose another method.

Trump is not a politician and needs some people to help guide him in the way Washington corruption and underhanded dealings go. He allowed his own people to push for a dead line on a bill that should have taken much more time with a lot more input. Obama Care did not have that fact, no one knew what was in it (ask Princess Nancy who still hasn't read it). He needs a strong whip to run the party. The Republicans have been for some time nothing but a bunch of copperheads who let the crooks and anti Constitution run Congress and the country. Time they stood up and acted like leaders. The same with the Democrats. They did try to overthrow the establishment, but not enough had a back bone after the election. But next election if they keep the old establishment leaders they will lose more seats and the old party Democrats will return to power.

Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. Use what the leftist do against them. Use their own words and their inability to be honest to bring them to the table. For those among them who have created crimes and misused their office they should be arrested and tried like any other criminal. Taking money away from their pet projects they use to pay off votes will hurt them like taking money from cities who fail to protect their citizens by saying they will only protect criminals. Power and money are why crooked politicians make a life long career of office.

And everything the left is trying to nail to Trump, Obama and Clinton have actually done. So I agree send them to jail if they dealt with dictatorship or took money from them. Obama had deals with Chinese figures as well as drug figures at the White House and everyone knows Hillary Clinton record. Trump made his money in the business world and not by selling out his country. That is a crime to many leftist.

But the blind sheep will be lead and only say what they have been programmed to say. You see it in the fake news all the time. The same lines repeated by different people. Just shows they can't think for themselves. But Americans are suppose to be able to think and see right from wrong. Even with the terrible teachers we have now that make this country low on the education of our children, we should be able to overcome them.

So use you fake facts and news and forget what both Clinton's and Obama have done and their followers. Plug your ears and put on a blind fold and be a good little slave.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

1. Sean Spicer whining today that we shouldn't care how or who gave Nunes his super secret info, it's only the CONTENT that matters. Dumb Ass whined the same thing about the Russian hacking. We shouldn't care how they got the info, its only the info that matters.

2. The Rethuglicans on the House Committee asking NOTHING about Trump collusion with Russia. Why no, their only concern was HOW that information came to light and WHO leaked it. The CONTENT doesn't matter, only the leaks.

Leaks =BAD ( when they hurt Trump)

Leaks = UNIMPORTANT (when they hurt someone else)

Smells like (R) Hypocrisy

Trey Gowdy: Leaks That Republicans Use Are Fine, Leaks That Benefit Dems Are Destroying the Country

 

[Carnal_Flower]

1. The endless whining and self-pitying over (D) dislike of Trump.

2. Birtherism anyone? 8 years of saying NO? Obama a Muslim ring a bell?

But stop picking on Trump you mean lefties

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Sounds like the Russian propaganda that Chloe reads.

Funny but its true, Obama and his cohorts lied about everything in Obama Care. My sister worked for a different company than her husband but was on his insurance at the time. His company went over to the Obama Care Exchange and they said she was no longer covered because she had insurance at her job. After cut backs she got back on her husbands insurance, but by now it was a mess. Her son broke his foot and walked on it thinking it was a sprain and later fainted and was taken to the hospital. They billed the family $3,600.00 She called and was told that the Obama Care deduction was $3,000!!!! And that the doctors gave their son a drug test without asking permission of the family because he fainted. It was negative and was caused by the sudden pain. But the deal is that under Obama Care they didn't have to ask the parents permission or let them chose another method.

Trump is not a politician and needs some people to help guide him in the way Washington corruption and underhanded dealings go. He allowed his own people to push for a dead line on a bill that should have taken much more time with a lot more input. Obama Care did not have that fact, no one knew what was in it (ask Princess Nancy who still hasn't read it). He needs a strong whip to run the party. The Republicans have been for some time nothing but a bunch of copperheads who let the crooks and anti Constitution run Congress and the country. Time they stood up and acted like leaders. The same with the Democrats. They did try to overthrow the establishment, but not enough had a back bone after the election. But next election if they keep the old establishment leaders they will lose more seats and the old party Democrats will return to power.

Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. Use what the leftist do against them. Use their own words and their inability to be honest to bring them to the table. For those among them who have created crimes and misused their office they should be arrested and tried like any other criminal. Taking money away from their pet projects they use to pay off votes will hurt them like taking money from cities who fail to protect their citizens by saying they will only protect criminals. Power and money are why crooked politicians make a life long career of office.

And everything the left is trying to nail to Trump, Obama and Clinton have actually done. So I agree send them to jail if they dealt with dictatorship or took money from them. Obama had deals with Chinese figures as well as drug figures at the White House and everyone knows Hillary Clinton record. Trump made his money in the business world and not by selling out his country. That is a crime to many leftist.

But the blind sheep will be lead and only say what they have been programmed to say. You see it in the fake news all the time. The same lines repeated by different people. Just shows they can't think for themselves. But Americans are suppose to be able to think and see right from wrong. Even with the terrible teachers we have now that make this country low on the education of our children, we should be able to overcome them.

So use you fake facts and news and forget what both Clinton's and Obama have done and their followers. Plug your ears and put on a blind fold and be a good little slave.

 

[LincolnDuncan]

If those items are not two glaring search lights of hypocrisy, I do not know what is.

There was a time when I read a lot of legislative bills. It's perfectly understandable to me that a person could know the bill without knowing every detail. Of course she knew what was in the bill but she wasn't familiar with the details in it's final form.

 

[JackLuis]

Rachel Maddow: Mike Pence’s role in Flynn’s scandal ‘is flashing like a red beacon’

Rachel lines up Pence to take a fall!

Over and over, Rachel Maddow has questioned how it is possible that Vice President Mike Pence couldn’t have known that Gen. Mike Flynn was lying about his Russia conversation.

In a March 9 interview with Bret Baier on Fox News, Pence swore that the story about Flynn lobbying for Turkey was news to him. “[H]earing that story — today is the first [he’s] hearing of it,” he told Baier, who asked him the question twice, just to be sure.

“That cannot be true,” Maddow remarked.

Thursday, Maddow came back to her examination of Pence, as PoliticusUSA noted. Pence was the head of the Trump transition team after Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) was booted from the job. Presumably, Flynn was vetted by that transition team, which would have brought up these concerns.

“As leader of the transition, he was notified in writing by members of Congress about Flynn’s apparent financial ties to the government of Turkey,” Maddow outlined, referring back to a letter sent by Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD). “The transition was also apparently notified twice by Flynn’s own lawyers about his financial relationship with the government of Turkey, but nevertheless, Vice President Mike Pence says he has no idea about any of that.”

How does Pence plead? He was disconnected because...? Come on Mikey, lie your ass off!

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Mike "Lock Her Up" Flynn an excellent example of (R) hypocrisy.

Emails!! Benghazi Benghazi! Benghazi! Lock Her Up!

Er, how do I avoid the slammer?

Rachel Maddow: Mike Pence’s role in Flynn’s scandal ‘is flashing like a red beacon’

Rachel lines up Pence to take a fall!



How does Pence plead? He was disconnected because...? Come on Mikey, lie your ass off!

 

[dan_c00000]

"Fact: It actually took Obamacare about 11 months to get through, after being reviewed and discussed and analyzed by everyone."

It was. And actually it took more than 11 months. It isn't Obama's fault the teahadists are a bunch of illiterate racists.