Republican hypocrisy exposed in Jon Stewart fashion.
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What do you have to look forward to when Republicans finally do take over the reins of government? This. And it ain’t pretty.
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) believes that a “political rebellion” akin to the American revolution of 1776 is brewing, that the Social Security retirement age should be raised to 70, and that the Wall Street reform bill currently moving through Congress is comparable to “killing an ant with a nuclear weapon.”
In an explosive interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the GOP leader also charged that Democrats are “snuffing out the America that I grew up in.” He added, “Right now, we’ve got more Americans engaged in their government than at any time in our history. There’s a political rebellion brewing, and I don’t think we’ve seen anything like it since 1776.”
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Ensuring there’s enough money to pay for the war will require reforming the country’s entitlement system, Boehner said. He said he’d favor increasing the Social Security retirement age to 70 for people who have at least 20 years until retirement, tying cost-of-living increases to the consumer price index rather than wage inflation and limiting payments to those who need them.
“We need to look at the American people and explain to them that we’re broke,” Boehner said. “If you have substantial non-Social Security income while you’re retired, why are we paying you at a time when we’re broke? We just need to be honest with people.
Honest? The hypocrisy is astounding. Cut down on Social Security but extend the Bush tax cuts for the rich is what this guy is saying. Why is it that honesty is something which the middle class and poor need to deal with but the rich are exempt? The same people who didn’t give a damn for deficit spending during the eight years of insanity and abuse under Bush have now made this their number one priority. And they’re asking to be taken seriously. Really?
Why not get the hell out of Iraq and Afghanistan, wars which cannot be won under any conditions, and then they would not have to worry about finding funds to pay for them? Is the trillion already spent on those two pointless wars not enough?
Imagine a Sarah Palin White House with Boehner and McConnell in charge of the House and Senate respectively and know that there is no terrorist organization in existence which could be more destructive to America than what these fools are capable of doing.
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Republican Rep. Mark Souder:
“I sinned against God, my wife and my family by having a mutual relationship with a part-time member of my staff.”
Dana Milbank asks:
When was it, exactly, that the Republican revolution merged with the sexual revolution?
With each passing year, the class notes for the famous House Republicans Class of ’94 get more lurid.
Yes, Souder is simply another politician, Republican and Democrat, who has been unfaithful. No big story there…except that Souder is yet another conservative hypocrite who preached family values while screwing around on his wife. It is that aspect of the story which disgusts me most. The classic case was Newt Gingrich who, day after day, pounded Bill Clinton over the Lewinsky matter while he himself was in the midst of a sizzling affair. Scumbags.
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In case you haven’t been following the latest, greatest reality show – Republican Hypocrisy – here’s a snippet from the latest episode.
Republican Senator John Cornyn, 2005 version, comments on Bush’s Supreme court nominee Harriet Miers.
“Although she has no prior judicial experience, this was true for nearly 40 percent of the men and women who have served as Supreme Court justices. Indeed, rather than make her nomination less desirable, many of us believe that her long career in private practice will be to her credit.”
Republican Senator John Cornyn, 2010 version, comments on Obama’s Supreme court nominee Elena Kagan.
“The president says he wants to appoint somebody who will understand how the court’s decisions will impact regular people,” said Cornyn, a Republican who sits on the Judiciary Committee that will first consider Kagan’s nomination. “I don’t see how Ms. Kagan meets the president’s own standard. Her lack of experience as a practicing lawyer and a practicing judge are things that do not argue in her favor.”
If you’re capable of placing your brain in a box thereby suspending all rational though, then this is the show for you. A few million Fox viewers can attest to that very fact.
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