Proof The GOP Is The Party Of No Morals And Grand Hypocrisy

As I wrote ““Faggot,” “Nigger,” “Baby-Killer,” “Boo!” Welcome To The New GOP,” I had planned to do a follow-up, explaining why I used the actual slurs in the title and body of the piece, rather than refer to them in other ways. But this is not that. Come back later for it!

Instead, I want to share with you two excellent examples from two different sources explaining — with excellent examples — why the GOP is the party of no morals and grand hypocrisy. When I say GOP I mean GOP, but I also include the Tea Party in with them. There is no difference. They feed off each other and are supported by each other in public, and are financially supported by the same entities in private. There’s little difference between a bad dog and his fleas.

First up, in researching via Twitter for ““Faggot,” “Nigger,” “Baby-Killer,” “Boo!” Welcome To The New GOP,” I left open the search for #iamthemob, and happened upon it a few minutes ago. I came across the following tweets from “SpookyET.” Read them from the bottom, up, as you ordinarily would in Twitter:

You finally got mad when the government decided that people in USA deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick. #hcr #tcot #gop
8 minutes ago via web

You didn’t get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark. #hcr #tcot #teaparty #p2 #gop #iamthemob
9 minutes ago via web

You didn’t get mad when we let New Orleans, a major US city drown. #hcr #tcot #teaparty #p2 #gop #iamthemob
10 minutes ago via web

You didn’t get mad when we let Usama bin Laden escape at Tora Bora. #hcr #tcot #teaparty #p2 #gop #iamthemob
11 minutes ago via web

You didn’t get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans. #hcr #tcot #teaparty #p2 #gop #iamthemob
11 minutes ago via web

You didn’t get mad when you found out we were torturing people. #hcr #tcot #teaparty #p2 #gop #iamthemob
12 minutes ago via web

You didn’t get mad when you saw the Abu Grahib photos. #hcr #tcot #teaparty #p2 #gop #iamthemob
12 minutes ago via web

You didn’t get mad when over $10 billion just disappeared in Iraq. #hcr #tcot #teaparty #p2 #gop #iamthemob
13 minutes ago via web

You didn’t get mad when we spent over $975 billion (and counting) on said illegal war. #hcr #tcot #teaparty #p2 #gop #iamthemob
13 minutes ago via web

You didn’t get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us. #hcr #tcot #teaparty #p2 #gop #iamthemob
14 minutes ago via web

You didn’t get mad when the PATRIOT Act got passed. #hcr #tcot #teaparty #p2 #gop #iamthemob
14 minutes ago via web

You didn’t get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed. #hcr #tcot #teaparty #p2 #gop #iamthemob
16 minutes ago via web

You didn’t get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy. #hcr #tcot #teaparty #p2 #gop #iamthemob
17 minutes ago via web

You didn’t get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President. #hcr #tcot #teaparty #p2 #gop #iamthemob
18 minutes ago via web

I couldn’t have said it better myself. Obviously the writer has an issue with the #iamthemob folks and the #tcot folks (tcot = “Top Conservatives on Twitter”) who are generally the parts of the same dog — or his fleas.

Last night I happened upon “An open letter to conservatives,” a reader’s blog over at Talking Points Memo. As much as I’m dying to reprint it in its entirety here, that would be wrong, so I will strongly encourage you to read it in its entirety at TPM. But here are a few choice quotes:

You can’t fight against your own ideas just because the Dem president endorses your proposal.

You can’t call for a pay-as-you-go policy, and then vote against your own ideas.

You can’t carry on about the evils of government spending when your family has accepted more than a quarter-million dollars in government handouts.

You can’t refuse to go to a scheduled meeting, to which you were invited, and then blame the Dems because they didn’t meet with you.

You can’t rail against using teleprompters while using teleprompters. Repeatedly.

You can’t rail against the bank bailouts when you supported them as they were happening.

You can’t flip out when the black president bows to foreign dignitaries, as appropriate for their culture, when you were silent when the white presidents did the same. Bush.  Nixon. Ike. You didn’t even make a peep when Bush held hands and kissed (on the mouth) leaders of countries that are not on “kissing terms” with the US.

You can’t complain that the undies bomber was read his Miranda rights under Obama when the shoe bomber was read his Miranda rights under Bush and you remained silent.  (And, no, Newt — the shoe bomber was not a US citizen either, so there is no difference.)

The piece is long — almost 3000 words, and worth every letter. Read it. Send it to your friends. Send it to Michael Steele, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and their cast of merry bigots and hypocrites and haters.