GOP Hypocrites
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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When political hypocrisy runs amok one must start to question the true motive of the visceral opposition to President Obama by Conservative Republicans.
Many around here like to quote "facts" and "figures" given to them by the likes of Beck, Hannity, and Limbaugh. Many have latched on to the issue of czars. Many question that because President Obama has 20 czars he must have little regard for the constitution. And a reader recently wrote that those in the military should question whether they should serve under a president who violates the constitution by choosing to use czars. A term synonymous with despot or dictator. The writer asks where do czars fit in the republic or the constitution? She answered that it didn't. She was right. But I ask, where was the outrage when George W. Bush appointed 47 czars during his administration?
This is similar to all the opposition on health care reform. The opposition states that it would cost too much money and add to the deficit. Deficit? The Republicans are now worried about the deficit? When did that happen? For the last eight years they have remained silent as the deficit exploded.
Now the health care plan that is being proposed by Democrats and opposed by Republicans, who by they way have offered nothing but to stay put, would add one trillion dollars to the deficit over ten years. But Bush's three major initiatives of his administration, tax cuts for the rich, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Medicare plan D all supported by Republicans, have added six trillion dollars to the deficit. Again I ask where was the outrage?
I guess for conservative Republicans it's OK for a president to violate the constitution, run up the deficit, violate the Geneva Conventions, and lie to Congress as long as the President is a Republican. Republicans ran around trying to impeach President Clinton for lying about having an extra marital affair. Some on the far right have called for President Obama to be impeached yet they remained silent when President Reagan sold weapons to our enemies in order to fund right-wing death squads in Central America and President George W Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction in order to fight an unnecessary war that has not made us any safer.
Could it be that the Conservative Republicans are so bitter with their brutal electoral defeat in Congress and so angry that President Obama was elected overwhelmingly by the American people that they are blinded to their own blatant hypocrisy?
You betcha!
Robert Betances
Warsaw, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
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When political hypocrisy runs amok one must start to question the true motive of the visceral opposition to President Obama by Conservative Republicans.
Many around here like to quote "facts" and "figures" given to them by the likes of Beck, Hannity, and Limbaugh. Many have latched on to the issue of czars. Many question that because President Obama has 20 czars he must have little regard for the constitution. And a reader recently wrote that those in the military should question whether they should serve under a president who violates the constitution by choosing to use czars. A term synonymous with despot or dictator. The writer asks where do czars fit in the republic or the constitution? She answered that it didn't. She was right. But I ask, where was the outrage when George W. Bush appointed 47 czars during his administration?
This is similar to all the opposition on health care reform. The opposition states that it would cost too much money and add to the deficit. Deficit? The Republicans are now worried about the deficit? When did that happen? For the last eight years they have remained silent as the deficit exploded.
Now the health care plan that is being proposed by Democrats and opposed by Republicans, who by they way have offered nothing but to stay put, would add one trillion dollars to the deficit over ten years. But Bush's three major initiatives of his administration, tax cuts for the rich, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Medicare plan D all supported by Republicans, have added six trillion dollars to the deficit. Again I ask where was the outrage?
I guess for conservative Republicans it's OK for a president to violate the constitution, run up the deficit, violate the Geneva Conventions, and lie to Congress as long as the President is a Republican. Republicans ran around trying to impeach President Clinton for lying about having an extra marital affair. Some on the far right have called for President Obama to be impeached yet they remained silent when President Reagan sold weapons to our enemies in order to fund right-wing death squads in Central America and President George W Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction in order to fight an unnecessary war that has not made us any safer.
Could it be that the Conservative Republicans are so bitter with their brutal electoral defeat in Congress and so angry that President Obama was elected overwhelmingly by the American people that they are blinded to their own blatant hypocrisy?
You betcha!
Robert Betances
Warsaw, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
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