Republican Hypocrisy

Republican Hypocrisy, a Tenfold Increase in Exports to Iran

Aaron Keyak | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

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Republicans play a shameless political game to dupe the American people -- they cannot explain the hundreds of millions of dollars that they've allowed to be exported to Iran since Bush took office.

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McCain: Lock-Step and (Oil) Barrel

Janet Ritz | Posted 06.19.2008 | Green

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While Obama was in Illinois shoveling sand in bags to hold back the Bush-neglected infrastructure that was crumbling around him McCain was on his way to accept whoops and cheers from oil industry insiders.

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Snake Oil: The Republican Art of Fooling the Public

Dan Agin | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics

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In politics, we don't remember enough. We forget how much of American political history is a history of con-men selling us "snake oil."

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Does Anyone Else Think That...?

Sherman Yellen | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics

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Hillary seems to provoke a condemnation disproportionate to her sins. She is not Dick Cheney. She is not even Lynne. She is not my candidate, but I do hate the word triangulate applied to her.

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Pat Boone Plays the GOP Gay Card in KY Election

Howie Klein | Posted 11.05.2007 | Politics

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Boone is warning Kentuckians that if they vote for Democrat Steve Beshear against Republican incumbent Governor Ernie Fletcher, Kentucky will turn into another San Francisco.

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San Bernardino Forest Chief Blames DC; Was Told to Shred Earlier Report on Fire Threat

Steve Anderson | Posted 10.25.2007 | Politics

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In what seems to be an oft repeated theme, the Bush administration again put politics over policy. And that has had an effect on the forests of Southern California.

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Whose Values?

Sally Kohn | Posted 10.21.2007 | Politics

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The "Values Voters Summit" kicked off last week in Washington. But whose values were they talking about? Bashing gay people? In what twisted world are those values to be proud of?

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More Proof the GOP Is Retreating In the Tax Wars

David Sirota | Posted 10.20.2007 | Politics

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The Colorado Republican leadership is berating the very tax cuts they championed.

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There's No Business Like The GOP's Show Business

E. A. Hanks | Posted 10.02.2007 | Politics

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When the President talks about "Hollywood," he doesn't mean the thousands of dedicated people who work in Los Angeles. Of course he doesn't. He means the Jews.

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The One Term President Conspiracy

Richard Klass | Posted 09.13.2007 | Politics

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The domestic objective of President Bush's strategy in Iraq is to ensure that the next president -- presumably a Democrat -- is a one-term president.

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Could Ted Haggard be Larry Craig's Knight in Shining (but "Completely Heterosexual") Armor?

Katie Halper | Posted 09.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: Homosexuality, Families With a Mission, Ted Haggard, New Life Church, George W. Bush, Homophobia, Republican Hypocrisy, Mike Jones, Paul Huberty, Larry Craig, Republican Party, Politics News

I don't think you two are hypocrites. When you're shielding America's values with one hand, and spearing the homosexual agenda with another, it's easy to slip up with your other body parts.

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Fred: You Had It Right The First Time

Malcolm Friedberg | Posted 09.11.2007 | Politics

Read More: Republican Hypocrisy, Republican Presidential Candidate, Fred Thompson, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

Presidential hopeful Fred Thompson said yesterday that Osama bin Laden should get "due process of law." Later in the day he indicated that bin Laden should be "caught and killed."

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