Hypocrisy of Republicans/Conservatives

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Healthcare reform: Medicare buy-in

from Open Congress

Joe Lieberman: For Medicare Buy-In Before He Was Against It

December 14, 2009 - by Donny Shaw

Over the weekend, Sen. Joe Lieberman [i, CT], one of the key swing votes on health care, informed Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid [D, NV] that he would vote with the Republicans to filibuster the Democrats’ latest health care “deal,” which would drop the public option in exchange for allowing people aged 55 to 64 to buy into Medicare. To be clear, Lieberman opposes keeping the public option in the bill as well.

Talking Points Memo today had a good catch. As a Vice Presidential candidate in 2000 and as recently as September of this year, Lieberman was a strong backer of opening up Medicare and allowing people to buy into it. In 2000 Bangor Daily News reported:

[Lieberman] said during the interview that the fastest growing group of uninsured are those 55 to 65. For that reason, the ticket proposes an expansion of Medicare to allow those and older to buy into the public program. There would still be a buy-in price but it would be less than buying private insurance, he said.

And here’s the Connecticut Post on September 8 2009 outlining Lieberman’s preferred ways to reform the health care system:

By allowing citizens who are not eligible for Medicare or Medicaid to buy in for a rate below the private market, the government can extend coverage to more of those who are currently uninsured, he said.

Joe says he is an independent, caucuses with the democrats and votes like and is a hypocrite like a republican.

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I suppose since the republicans are hypocrites it makes it perfectly okay for the dems to be.

This one is so good I can’t contain my utter contempt for the left-wing activists who once chided President Bush’s deficits yet now make excuses for President Obama’s.

Seems that the liberal PAC MoveOn.org took a quarrel with President Bush’s spending and put out this ad back in March of 2008 called “

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Funny, I don’t remember President Bush ever hitting a “trillion dollar deficit.” Oh wait, that would be President Obama who will be hitting a $1.85 trillion deficit this year. So I guess, in essence, President Obama’s spending is indeed making President Bush’s spending look like “child’s play,” they’re correct.

So thank you MoveOn.org for pointing this out.

Yes, President Obama, who is going to pay off your $1.85 trillion deficit on top of President Bush’s $400 billion deficit?

There is no good answer here and it simply proves that liberals are fine with deficits so far as they’re done by Democrat Presidents. I think Bush’s spending was terrible as well but now it pales in comparison to Obama.

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Liberals want to say ‘any 13 year old should be allowed to have an abortion without their parent’s consent. Yet, liberals say you should be 22 to possess a weapon. Therefore, you’re old enough to make the incredible permanent and powerful decision to submit your body to an abortion? Yet, you’re not old enough to possess a weapon to protect life and property! Republicans agree with no weapons for children, even if some of these weapons call themselves Doctor

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Speaking of abortion… liberal doctors are now stating that the death penalty via a hypodermic needle is cruel and unusual punishment. The doctors say assisting in these legal actions is against their Hippocratic Oath. So, a Doctor can suck the brain out of a baby whose head is sticking out of the birth canal, but they have a problem inserting a needle into a murderer’s vein? LOL

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By the way, Hillary Clinton admitted to having prohibited her 13 year old from getting her ears pierced. She also enrolled Chelsea in a school that refused to distribute condoms to minors. She wants our daughters to be 'footloose and fancy free' like abortion rights for children and access to condoms for children, but raises her own daughter with an attempt at conservative morals?

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The Kennedy family, you probably don’t know this, has many members who are due family money (due with age, maturity etc.). You probably also don’t know that this money is apparently in a foreign bank – avoiding estate taxes. I say ‘apparently’ because the family refuses to talk about this allegation. It would be so easy to simply deny it if it wasn’t true – right? Isn’t it ironic that the democrats, as the Kennedy’s all are, love to raise taxes and allege that the ‘rich’ get away with too much tax relief here in the US. Meanwhile this family full of ‘rich’ people and democrats protect their money by putting it in foreign banks. If this country is such a protector of the rich and their money, why do the Kennedy’s putting their money in foreign banks?

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10 liberal hypocrites

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Al Gore

Hypocrisy: Carbon Footprint the Size of…Some Really Big Thing

At his suburban Nashville home, Ex-Vice President Al Gore enjoyed the Oscar awarded to “An Inconvenient Truth,” the documentary on global warming in which he starred. But the Tennessee Center for Policy Research gained access to Gore’s utility bills for two years and published the gas and electric bills for his 20-room home and pool house. It turned out the home devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours. The Center’s president, Drew Johnson said, “If this were any other person with $30,000-a-year in utility bills, I wouldn’t care. But he tells other people how to live and he’s not following his own rules.”

9 Rosie O’Donnell

Hypocrisy: No Guns For You, But My Guy Packs Heat

On her television show, April 19, 1999, O’Donnell had this to say about gun owners: “I don’t care if you want to hunt. I don’t care if you think it’s your right. I say, ‘Sorry.’ It is 1999. We have had enough as a nation. You are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.” Several months later, a bodyguard in her employ applied for a concealed gun permit from the Greenwich (Connecticut) Police Department. When queried about whether her bodyguard should carry a gun on May 24, 2000, she said, “I don’t personally own a gun, but if you are qualified, licensed and registered, I have no problem.”

8 Michael Moore

Hypocrisy: War Investments, Non-Union Labor, Calling for the End of the American Dream While Living It

Michael Moore is merciless in his criticism of oil and defense contractors; calling them ‘war profiteers.’ He also claims to have no stock portfolio, but at one time he owned shares in Halliburton, Honeywell and Boeing. He also expresses an affinity for Union labor, but does his post production work in Canada – where he doesn’t have to pay union wages. In one of his books he writes “Horatio Alger Must Die”, implying that the rags-to-riches story is a myth, and ultimately harmful to America. This from an unknown Flint, Michigan filmmaker who became a millionaire in Hollywood by making documentaries.

7 Gloria Steinem

Hypocrisy: Getting Married After Condemning Marriage As Pointless

For years, Gloria Steinem said that “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle”, and that marriage has “a bad name”. Yet she married David Bale in 2000, preferring to enter into an institution she said made women “a semi-nonperson”. Sadly, Mr. Bale died three years later.

6 Nancy Pelosi

Hypocrisy: Accepting Union Awards But Not Using Union Labor

Nancy Pelosi bashes everyone who doesn’t use union labor–except herself. Shockingly, she still accepted the Cesar Chavez Award from the United Farmworkers Unions while using non-UFW workers on her Napa Valley Vineyard. She also praised the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union and took massive sums of money from them while keeping them out of her Hotel and chain of restaurants.

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5 Barbara Streisand

Hypocrisy: Coastline Protection Lawsuit

Known for espousing pro-environmental views and criticizing those who don’t, Streisand sued the California Coastal Records Project, a landmark photographic database of over 12,000 frames of the California coast shot since 2002, asserting that the inclusion of a single frame that includes her blufftop Malibu estate invades her privacy, violates the “anti-paparazzi” statute, seeks to profit from her name, and threatens her security. Ms. Streisand, who purports to espouse the First Amendment right of freedom of speech (See “My Thoughts On Freedom of Speech” at barbrastreisand.com) apparently feels differently when the publication of a photograph shows her backyard.

4 Ted Kennedy

Hypocrisy: Opposing Wind Power While Proposing Alternative Fuels Elsewhere

Senator Kennedy has introduced dozens of pieces of legislation over the years to encourage the development of solar, hydrogen, and wind as alternatives to oil and coal. But he opposed the Cape Wind Project, which would build wind turbines in Nantucket Sound, about six miles off the coast from the Kennedy compound in Hyannis. The problem was not aesthetic; the Kennedys wouldn’t be able to actually see the turbines from their home. Instead Robert Kennedy Jr., who had been beating the drum for alternative sources of energy for more than a decade, complained that the project would be built in one of the family’s favorite sailing and yachting areas. Sen. Kennedy publicly called for further study of the project – but privately, he tried to get the study canceled.

3 Jesse Jackson

Hypocrisy: Counseling on Adultery While Committing Adultery

Jesse Jackson confessed that in 1998, at the very moment he was providing pastoral counseling to the White House’s Bill Clinton for his adultery with Monica Lewinski, he was carrying on an extramarital affair of his own, with a subordinate who later gave birth to his child. How could the nation’s premier civil rights leader have been so reckless?

2 Mary Beth Sweetland

Hypocrisy: Protesting Animal Testing While Benefiting from Animal Testing

A type-A diabetic, PETA Senior Vice President Mary Beth Sweetland keeps herself alive by injecting herself with insulin, which was developed from medical testing using dogs. She has been quoted as saying “I don’t see myself as a hypocrite. I need my life to fight for the rights of animals”. Penn Jillette gives her what-for: “ Not a hypocrite? Your group supports people who fire bomb labs where animal testing is conducted, while using the very benefits of animal testing to live your own upside-down, house of cards, !@#$ing privileged life”. In the clip above you can see Penn speaking – around the 5:20 mark.

1 US Labor Unions

Hypocrisy: Using Non-Union Labor to Strike for Higher Union Wages

Trade Unionism had been an important part of the liberal coalition within the Democratic party. In the late 1990’s, Unions began protesting the loss of jobs through outsourcing. By the 21st century, Unions began outsourcing picket lines to non-union, scab labor. The non-unionized workers were recruited from the most vulnerable of society willing to take on the most undignified type of work. The Unions offered no benefits, no healthcare, no job security, low pay, and intolerable working conditions. The Unions likewise paid in cash and did not collect taxes due to either federal, state, or local governments. Further, the Union’s exploitation of workers on outsourced picket lines contributed absolutely nothing to the workers Social Security retirement fund. Unions did not pay required Workers Compensation premiums for a hazardous job known to be risking life and limb. All this, so the greedy employer, in this case the Union, could enjoy higher living standards for themselves. [source: Outsourcing the Picket Line, By Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, July 24, 2007.]

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The Winner Of The Liberal Hypocrite Award Is….

February 2, 2010 · carl ·

The nominees are…..

Congressman and House Ways and Means Committee chairman and IRS overseer Charlie Rangel, for cheating on his income taxes.

President Barack Obama,for spending what had to be tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars taking his wife Michelle on a date night to New York.

OK, let’s move things along.

Our final nominee is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The envelope please.

And the winner is…………

Nancy Pelosi!

Speaker Pelosi wins for her use of military aircraft not only to shuttle herself around, but used Air Force planes to give her children and grandchildren a ride, even when she or no other members of Congress were on board.

Many will see this as an upset win for Pelosi, who spent more than 2 million taxpayer dollars flying here and there.

The oddsmakers also must be annoyed, as most of them were counting on President Obama’s broken campaign promises to give him an edge in winning the trophy.

Congratulations Madame Speaker.

For you to do all of this wasteful spending in spite of President Obama’s calls for reducing the federal deficit, putting a freeze on discretionary spending, etc., you deserve the award for the top liberal hypocrite.

(The freedom medium)

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Liberal hypocrites should remember their own rage

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Foley

Hypocrisy: Condemning Clinton’s Sex Scandal While Sexting Underage Boys

Mark Foley was a Florida congressman who lamented that Bill Clinton’s runaway sexual addiction caused his scandal with Monica Lewinsky. And yet Foley had demons of his own. On September 29th, 2006 Foley resigned his congressional seat after reports surfaced that he was sending sexually explicit text messages and emails to teenage male congressional pages. Foley insisted he was not a pedophile and had never had sexual contact with any minor. Then he dipped into the media excuse bag and decided to used ALL of them at once: he blamed his emails on a drinking problem, checked himself into a rehab clinic, and said that he had been molested by a clergyman when he 13. To top it off, he decided that NOW was the time come out, and bravely had his lawyer inform the public that “Mark Foley wants you to know he is a gay man.” Many pages came forward after Foley’s announcement, but Florida officials closed the investigation citing “insufficient evidence” to file criminal charges.

7 Robert Tilton

Hypocrisy: Prayer Fraud

Robert Tilton is an American televangelist who achieved notoriety in the ‘80s and early ‘90s through his TV program Success-N-Life, a very slick and well rehearsed perversion of the “prosperity gospel”. Tilton promised that, for a $1000 pledge, he would personally lobby God on your behalf. All you would have to do was send in your check and he would pray over the very letter you sent him. Today, all of you know him as “The farting Preacher”, but back in the day people sent their entire life savings to this guy. At its peak, Success N Life was in all 235 American TV markets, and was earning $80M a year, tax free. But in 1991, ABC News discovered Tilton’s ministry threw away prayer requests without even reading them, keeping only the money or valuables instead. When confronted with these claims, Tilton claimed that he would pray over computer readouts of prayer requests, or sometimes lay across piles of mail as he prayed (even claiming that chemicals in those letters gave him two “mini strokes” in his brain). Tilton sued ABC for libel in 1992, but the case was dismissed and his show was off the air by October 1993. He later resurfaced on Black Entertainment Television (BET) in the early morning hours. Ole Anthony, founder of the religious watchdog group the Trinity Foundation, said Tilton pays $50,000 per month for the air time, and estimates that Tilton’s ministry is grossing $24 million a year using reruns or repackaged versions of older shows. “With no production costs, a fraction of his former TV time budget, his net must rival that of the good old days with absolutely no effort on his part,” Anthony said.

6 Ted Haggard

Hypocrisy: Condemning Homosexuality While Practicing Homosexuality

Ted Haggard is the founder and former pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado; a founder of the Association of Life-Giving Churches; and former leader of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) from 2003 – 2006. Haggard has condemned homosexuality, and under his leadership, the NAE stated that “homosexual activity, like adulterous relationships, is clearly condemned in the Scriptures.” Yet in November 2006, he “left” all of his leadership positions after he admitted soliciting a prostitute for homosexual sex and methamphetamine. After the scandal broke, Haggard entered three weeks of intensive “counseling”, overseen by four ministers who claimed to have converted him back to heterosexuality. When pressed, they backtracked and merely said Haggard is a “heterosexual with issues.” Ya think?

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5 Bob Barr

Hypocrisy: Opposing Abortion While Paying For An Abortion

Bob Barr, is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Georgia’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1995 to 2003. He gained national attention as one of several leaders who successfully impeached President Bill Clinton. According to a sworn affidavit by Barr’s ex-wife Gail, the longtime abortion opponent paid for her abortion in 1983. Barr never publicly disputed the affidavit, and the author of the Defense of Marriage Act even invoked a legal privilege during his 1985 divorce so he could refuse any questions on whether he cheated on his second wife with his now-third wife. Barr has recently resurfaced as the Libertarian Party’s nominee for President of the United States (he lost).

4 Rush Limbaugh

Hypocrisy: Illicit Drug Sourcing

Rush Limbaugh is the host of “The Rush Limbaugh Show”, a nationally syndicated radio program devoted to conservative issues and news of the day. On his program, Limbaugh has espoused a deep respect of law enforcement and tough penalties for drug offenders (In 1995, he said drug users “ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.”) Yet on October 10, 2003, Limbaugh announced that he was addicted to prescription painkillers and would immediately check himself into a rehabilitation program. Law enforcement sources had noted that Limbaugh’s name had come up during an investigation into a black market drug ring in Palm Beach County, Florida, specializing in the illegal sale of prescription drugs OxyContin and hydrocodone. Limbaugh said he first became addicted to prescription painkillers following unsuccessful spinal surgery, but has remained clean since his 2003 treatment. Limbaugh was not incarcerated because Palm Beach does not jail drug offenders unless they’ve failed opportunities to deal with their addiction and have turned to crime to maintain their habit. Thus, benefiting from the soft position on drug crime that he hates so.

3 George Bush, Sr.

Hypocrisy: No New Taxes

At the 1988 Republican National Convention, candidate George H.W. Bush famously said “Read my lips: no new taxes!”. It was a strong, bold statement, and the soundbyte resonated within the Republican party, which then backed him all the way to a successful election as the 41st President of the United States. Once in office, Bush refused several new tax initiatives from a Democrat controlled Congress, but ultimately relented, and agreed to increase the amount of existing taxes in the 1990 budget agreement. Rush Limbaugh went apoplectic and the general public was only slightly less enraged. While technically the taxes weren’t “new”, they were still “more”, and that’s not what his electorate him to do. Bill Clinton then used Bush’s quote to an easy victory in the 1992 presidential election.

2 Richard Nixon

Hypocrisy: Obstruction of Justice

In 1973, Richard Nixon went on television and told the world “I am not a crook” as part of a total denial of involvement with the June 17th burglaries of the Democratic National Committee offices located in the Watergate Hotel. But he and other high ranking administration officials were actually eyes-deep in it. As a youth, Nixon was rejected by the FBI academy and later in life had to “settle” for President of the United States. This always ate at him, and he loved the cloak-and-dagger aspects of covert operations. Despite warnings to maintain plausible deniability, Nixon kept himself fully apprised of the break-in. Then journalists Robert Woodward and Carl Bernstein exposed the scandal in August 1972. The public disliked the burglary but loathed the cover-up even more, and popular sentiment led to impeachment processes that ultimately drove Nixon to resign the presidency.

1 Strom Thurmond

Hypocrisy: Blocking Civil Rights for His Own Child

When South Carolina Gov. Strom Thurmond ran for president in 1948 on the Dixiecrat ticket, he vowed to bar blacks from white schools, restaurants, and even some occupations. But at the same time he was preaching segregation, he was secretly financing the business administration degree of Essie Mae Washington, a black coed at the all-black South Carolina State College. Why? Because it is widely believed that Ms. Washington is his daughter. By supporting a black woman he supposedly sired, Thurmond considered himself remaining loyal to a Southern Gentleman’s code that required white boys, who often learned about sex “on the colored side of town,” to take care of any children they fathered. To his very death, Thurmond never confirmed nor denied Ms. Washington as his daughter, even when the headline: “SEN. THURMOND IS UNPRINCIPLED — WITH COLORED OFFSPRING — WHILE PARADING AS A DEVOUT SEGREGATIONIST” ran in the Edgefield Advertiser, where Ms. Washington went to school.

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By the way, Hillary Clinton admitted to having prohibited her 13 year old from getting her ears pierced. She also enrolled Chelsea in a school that refused to distribute condoms to minors. She wants our daughters to be 'footloose and fancy free' like abortion rights for children and access to condoms for children, but raises her own daughter with an attempt at conservative morals?

No one cares where Hillary Clinton sent Chelsea to school or whether she let her get her ears pierced at 13. You take a giant leap from this to interpret it as her wanting to push conservative morals on Chelsea while advocating that women have the right to control their bodies.

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I suppose since the republicans are hypocrites it makes it perfectly okay for the dems to be.

This one is so good I can’t contain my utter contempt for the left-wing activists who once chided President Bush’s deficits yet now make excuses for President Obama’s.

Seems that the liberal PAC MoveOn.org took a quarrel with President Bush’s spending and put out this ad back in March of 2008 called “

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Funny, I don’t remember President Bush ever hitting a “trillion dollar deficit.” Oh wait, that would be President Obama who will be hitting a $1.85 trillion deficit this year. So I guess, in essence, President Obama’s spending is indeed making President Bush’s spending look like “child’s play,” they’re correct.

So thank you MoveOn.org for pointing this out.

Yes, President Obama, who is going to pay off your $1.85 trillion deficit on top of President Bush’s $400 billion deficit?

There is no good answer here and it simply proves that liberals are fine with deficits so far as they’re done by Democrat Presidents. I think Bush’s spending was terrible as well but now it pales in comparison to Obama.

The deficits under Pres. Obama are the result of his cleaning up bush's messes. So they wouldn't be as high if bush had done his job right.

BTW - latest poll: only 7% of people blame Pres. Obama for the current economy while 37% blame bush. I agree.

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As fun as this is, I'm not going to participate any further. Hypocricy is on both sides of every debate. It's simply the sinful nature of mankind. I could pull up link after link of liberal hypocrits and so could you on conservatives. It's simply not productive. So, have fun everyone.

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The deficits under Pres. Obama are the result of his cleaning up bush's messes. So they wouldn't be as high if bush had done his job right.

BTW - latest poll: only 7% of people blame Pres. Obama for the current economy while 37% blame bush. I agree.

I know. I know, it's all Bush's fault. :thumbdown: The economic mess maybe some of his fault, but the deficit is definitely Obama's mess. You keep trying to tell me that Obama needs to do all this spending to "fix" Bush's economic mess, yet he's spent plenty already and it's only getting worse. I know, I know, it would have been worse if he didn't spend all he did. right?:thumbup:

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I know. I know, it's all Bush's fault. :thumbdown: The economic mess maybe some of his fault, but the deficit is definitely Obama's mess. You keep trying to tell me that Obama needs to do all this spending to "fix" Bush's economic mess, yet he's spent plenty already and it's only getting worse. I know, I know, it would have been worse if he didn't spend all he did. right?:thumbup:

The current deficit is, for the most part, from the bank bailouts, which started under bush. Then the stimulus which was necessary to undo bush's disastrous economic policies (i.e. de-regulate wall street) and keep the economy from the free fall.

Almost all the economists agree that the stimulus stopped the free fall of our economy and helped turn it around. CBO estimates that unemployment would be 25% without it.

But Pres. Obama gets very little credit for helping our economy because all of a sudden the conservative right and republicans care about the deficit and they yap about it daily.

And yes, everything would be much worse without what Pres. Obama has done. And that counts for something with me.