| Why are Republicans always such hypocrites?
There's a sarcastic expression used by the left, "It's OK if you are a Republican," that captures it well because Republicans are caught at such hypocrisy constantly.
The national economic was driven into the ditch by President George W. Bush and the deregulation obsessed Republicans. Economists are pretty much united that without the federal stimulus, the nation would have sunk into another Great Depression.
At the debate, Florida Republican John Raese tried to claim the federal stimulus did nothing for nobody and the federal government never helped him. Turned out that was a lie as he got $32 million in business from the feds.
WV-01 Republican candidate David McKinley has railed against the federal stimulus. Turns out McKinley's firm also has benefited from the federal stimulus.
And since much of the federal stimulus actually came in the form of middle class tax cuts, are they opposed to tax cuts now?
I never heard a word from McKinley or Raese about federal deficits when Bush was racking them up, but they whine about the deficit of President Obama.
Except they ignore or ignorant of the fact (the eternal question of today's Republicans: are they stupid or lying?) that under President Obama the deficit has not "tripled" as they've claimed, but that he's reduced it from what it was under President Bush's last budget. Bush's last budget left a Bush's last budget had a $1.416 trillion deficit while Obama's first budget reduced that to $1.29 trillion.
Then there is Spike Maynard, the former judge who Democrats ousted because of his corrupt ties to his Monaco-traveling vacation buddy Don Blankenship. Maynard claims Nick Rahall has an association with terrorists because of a campaign contribution made in 1996 from the same man who contributed to the Americans for Tax Reform's Grover Norquidst in 1998, then presidential candidate George W. Bush in 2000, and the Republican National Congressional Committee in 2002. By Spike's reasoning, Grover Norquidst, President Bush and the RNCC also have associations with a terrorist. Both Rahall and Bush rightly got rid of the donations the man had made to them after he was arrested in 2003. But Norquidst and the RNCC kept the money and have contributed it to Spike. As far as we know, the very dollars the man gave to Grover Norquidst and the RNCC are the very dollars that paid to air Spike's advertisements about Rahall's supposed association!
And don't even get me started on Spike's version of family values and the sanctity of marriage.
Update
CA Berkeley made an important reminder:
She voted with Bush about 90% over those eight years, yet stands with The Pledge shocked, shocked I tell you, about the state of the economy.
And don't even get started about the ethics of a Citi/investor hubby, sitting on Financial services and their increase in wealth over those eight years. All approved by GOP House leadership. |
