The GOP's Phony Honor

Maybe the most absurd rant coming from the sore Republican losers following the November election is that somehow President Obama is disrespecting office of the president by not enforcing a coat and tie dress code in the Oval Office.

Yes, the same clan who brought us such hits as torture, the Iraq war, Katrina, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, the outing of a covert CIA agent, the U.S. Attorneys scandal, Jack Abramoff, this wonderful economy, the assault on the middle class, and the defecation on the Constitution and civil rights, is now concerned that not wearing a jacket is disrespectful of the presidency. Got that?

Says former Bush chief of staff Andy Card:

"The Oval Office symbolizes...the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President."

This absurdity perfectly parallels the GOP's idiotic rant that Obama was being unpatriotic during the campaign by failing to wear an American flag lapel pin at the very time that their presidential nominee John McCain never wore one...even once.

But now comes word that the GOP's phony attempt at defining honor is yet again, like the shameless flag pin effort, another example of false honor wrapped in a blanket of hypocrisy, as the Huffington Post discovered yesterday:

And as Media Matters notes:

Leave it up to Republicans to spend time focusing on their hypocritical symbolic side show to mask their abysmal efforts when they actually occupied the Oval Office.

What next, a lecture from Karl Rove about obeying the law? Or maybe one from Dick Cheney about following the Geneva Convention.

Mark Nickolas is the Managing Editor of Political Base, and this story was from his original post, "The GOP's Phony Honor"

Comments

[felkakarp]

Is anybody waiting for one republican to repudiate one attack on President Obama as being too ridiculous?

[userw014]

Is anyone besides Andy Card really exercised about this? (Please don't count the me-too blowhards.­)

Enough about this. It was amusing for a day, now it's tiresome. Card is getting far too much attention for this.

[Rockridger]

This is also out of the anti-Clinton playbook. He's disrespecting the office. Clinton got his unit serviced near the oval office. Obama doesn't wear a coat. Same thing.

[ParacelsusTheophrastus]

They are so upset about the coat. We should check the coat and see what they planted in it.

[SeenItBefore]

Wasn't Andy Card the guy Bush sent out for cheeseburgers? Shined his shoes? Precut the brush in Crawford? Had a booster seat installed in the 350 dually? Put two coats of wax on Barney? And prepared those little sandwiches when Jeff, Jack and Rush came to lunch? Just askin'.

[Rog49Thomas]

"What next, a lecture from Karl Rove about obeying the law? Or maybe one from Dick Cheney about following the Geneva Convention?"

I'm betting that right now Republicans are scurrying about in their basements looking for that long lost copy of the quaint Constitution.

Soon we shall be hearing jeremiads about "imperial presidency", "checks and balances".

Gentlemen, start your hypoccrisy.

[Agent420]

"...tortur­e, the Iraq war, Katrina, Guantanamo, ..."

That should be "...the Iraq war, the Iraq war II,..."

[MajorKong]

Phony outrage is pretty much all they have these days. If they weren't throwing a collective hissy fit about this they'd make up something else.

[Bluedog12]

Andy Canard

[LMPE]

Didn't Tom DeLay write a book about ethics a few years ago?

That must have made George Orwell spin in his grave at the speed that the Earth rotates.

[Agent420]

That would not be very spectacular. George Orwell spinning at the breath taking speed of once every 24 hours.

[CFAmick]

When Tom Delay's father was in a persistent vegitative state, he and his family decided to end his life peacefully, without calling themselves terrorists. When Terry Schiavo's husband decided to end her life peacefully, he called him a terrorist.

[BARRISTER]

ALL of those phuccers should be in prison. ALL of them.

[MSF31538]

An empty suit and tie do not make an administration. Bush went AWOL from the Airforce Reserve because he hated to wear that damn uniform. What Card needs is a "dressing" down. A suit does not make the man. An empty suit does not make a President. Goodbye to that phony Administration.

Martin S. Friedlander, Esq.

[sleek]

Republican = HYPOCRITE

[Zen0469]

Thanks for the picture of Dub. in shirtsleeves and the accompanying article. It certainly puts the lie to the honor code as invented by comedian Andy C.

In fact, if anything it shows Andrew Card as the disengenuous hypocrite that he has always aspired to be. Might I recommend that we take every opportunity to show up hypocrisy of the collection of Dubya wing.nut "players" whenever evidence surfaces.

[Chubbster]

Absurd rant .... sore Republican losers f that somehow President Obama is disrespecting office of the president by not enforcing a coat and tie dress code in the Oval Office.

But, but, but it was Bush who instituted the dress code and required it off his robots!