Hypocrisy as the only real value

by Idéfix Tue Jan 30, 2018 1:23 pm

The party of family values picked a leader who talks indecently about his own daughters and brags about grabbing women by the pussy. Then they double down and say he is a good role model for kids.

The part of personal responsibility blames Obama and Clinton for the horrible person they put in office. Then they double down and blame the Democrats for shutting down a government while they control all branches of it.

The party of law and order is undermining law enforcement officials appointed by their own administration and confirmed by a Senate that they control. Then they double down and undermine the law enforcement agencies and intelligence community in a partisan effort to protect their leader.

The party of free trade has undermined America's position in the global trade regime by withdrawing from the TPP. Then they double down and pretend that Mexico will somehow pay for the wall while trying to appropriate taxpayer funds to pay for it.

For many years now, the Republican establishment has been building hypocrisy as its primary value. McConnell filibustered his own bill on the senate floor, and he overrode Obama's veto to pass another bill and then blamed Obama for not warning him enough about the bill that Obama had vetoed. As their hypocrisy kept paying off, they kept doubling down on it. And now this:

http://www.businessinsider.com/rnc-wont-return-steve-wynn-money-2018-1

by Idéfix Tue Jan 30, 2018 1:31 pm

https://twitter.com/GOP/status/917400514442260480

by MaxEntropy_Man Tue Jan 30, 2018 5:03 pm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/01/30/i-dont-know-what-the-hell-happened-michael-steele-on-the-gop-under-trump/?

The hypocrisy of the evangelical movement is especially bothersome for Steele, a Catholic who once studied for the priesthood. He deemed it “no different than any other lobbying group in town. It is in the business of getting something, and what they are willing to trade off for the something they want, whether [a] Supreme Court justice or a tax cut or whatever, is in my view, their soul, their moral underpinning, the character of who they are.” The pass being given to Trump — “a mulligan,” in the words of Tony Perkins — for his moral failings, including reports of an affair with an adult-film star, is especially maddening for Steele.

And the fact of the matter is, when you have spent the better part of 30 years telling the American people, as I said, how to behave, what to think, who to love, who not to love, what to do, what not to do, you’re wrong, condemn you, judge you. And now you’re going to come back because this man, the president, has given you a tax cut or a Supreme Court justice that you like, none of that matters when you find out that, while his wife was pregnant with his child, he was having an affair with a porn star. That did not just end once the child was born, but continued long afterwards. And yet you’re going to give a mulligan for that.

So I want Tony Perkins and others to give a mulligan to all those people that they condemned over the last 30 years. Where’s their mulligan? And if you’re going to be in the business of making these kinds of judgments, because I think the last place you need to be is in a place of judgment, ’cause the Lord said, “Thou shalt not judge,” you know? That’s not our role, that’s not our role. But if you want to go there, then check your hypocrisy. Because for me, it’s about being true to the Gospels, and certainly being true to yourself. …

by Idéfix Tue Jan 30, 2018 5:48 pm

The only gospel these snake-oil salesmen care about is the gospel of Supply Side Jesus.

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