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Detroit teachers ratify new contract, join 40 other schools and 5 universities facing punishment from Michigan GOP

By on March 27, 2013 in Education, GOPocrisy, Michigan Republicans, Teachers

Republicans punishing schools for 100% legal union contracts

This week, Detroit Public School teachers ratified a new union contract that staves off the impact of a new Right to Work law that goes into effect tomorrow. While the contract doesn’t give much to the teachers, it at least provides them with continued collective bargaining rights into the future.

With this action, the DPS now joins at least 40 other schools and five universities that face punitive action from Michigan Republicans who seek to deny them and some cities critical funding in a childish act of retribution.

Details and commentary after the jump.


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“Small government” Michigan GOP passed so many bills, Lt. Gov. has to take up slack signing them

By on January 3, 2013 in Conservatives, GOPocrisy, Michigan, Michigan Republicans

Small government, my butt

As I wrote last week, the hypocritical “small government” Republicans passed 282 bills during the short inflamed duck session. So many, in fact, that when Governor Snyder took a holiday break outside of the state, Lt. Governor Brian Calley was enlisted to sign 50 of them.

More after the Eclectablog cliff.


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The cruel and pathetic hypocrisy of Republicans on disaster relief

By on January 3, 2013 in GOPocrisy, Republican-Fail, Republicans

Oh, the humanity (unless it’s not in my district)

Yesterday, Representative Peter King from New York took to the House floor to lambast Speaker John Boehner and others who are holding up disaster relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy. “I can’t imagine that type of indifference, that type of disregard, that cavalier attitude being shown to any other part of the country,” he said.

The 20-year veteran of the U.S. House of Representatives must have an astonishingly short memory. Who can forget, for example, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor holding up relief funds for Joplin, Missouri when their town was scrubbed off the map by a potent tornado in 2011?…


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Michigan Republicans prove their hypocrisy on “small government” by passing 282 bills during lame duck session

By on December 30, 2012 in GOP, GOPocrisy, Michigan Republicans, Republican-Fail, Republicans, Rick Snyder

Inflamed duck, indeed

I knew that Republicans had passed a lot of bills through the Michigan legislature during the lame inflamed duck session but I had absolutely no idea just completely batshit nuts they had gone until this morning. That’s when I read this headline at Michigan Radio:

MICHIGAN GOVERNOR MAKING HIS WAY THROUGH 282 BILLS

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has been buy working his way through the 282 bills passed by he Legislature during the final weeks of the 2012 session.

The governor’s office said he signed 53 bills on Friday and vetoed four. He has acted on 186 bills and 95 are pending review.

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Obama administration & Dems play Good Cop, Bad Cop with Norquist-worshipping Republicans

By on November 28, 2012 in Barack Obama, GOP, GOPocrisy, Obama Administration, President Obama, Republicans

Pay no attention to the lobbyist behind the curtain

As LOLGOP pointed out this morning, there are Republicans who handily won re-election in their gerrymandered districts who do not fear the fiscal cliff. They can serve their two-percenter masters without fear that plunging our country into another recession will hurt their political careers in any way. But President Obama has a couple of things going for him. The first is that most Americans WILL blame the Republicans for “going there” if we do, indeed, go off the mythical cliff. Then there’s the fact that he won the election largely because he promised the super-wealthy would no longer be allowed to avoid paying their fair share in taxes.

Democrats are beginning to show some real spine in this debate. Politico reports today that many of them are ready to use their success on November 6th to restore some sanity to our budget.

Details after the jump.


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Romney says he’ll balance the budget in “EIGHT TO TEN years”, slams Obama for not doing it in FOUR

By on October 23, 2012 in Barack Obama, GOPocrisy, Mitt Romney

WTF?

Here’s something you may have missed during last night’s debate. Although the debate was supposed to be about foreign policy, it often veered back to domestic policy and the economy. During one of those veers, Mitt Romney said this:

“Come on our website. You look at how we get to a balanced budget within eight to 10 years. We do it by getting — by reducing spending in a whole series of programs.”

See why this is an unbelievably hypocritical statement after the jump.


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The White House responds to the new Paul Ryan Plan

By on March 23, 2012 in GOPocrisy

Today’s GOP: redefining the meaning of ‘shared sacrifice’ daily

The White House lost no time responding the the GOP’s new budget proposal. David Plouffe sent out an email titled “We did the math” and presented this infographic:



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The White House, Washington

Good morning –

Every day, you and your family make choices about how you spend your money and what investments you make. Leaders in Congress do the same thing when they draw up their budgets for the country. And if you spend some time with their plans, you learn what they value, you see the type of country they want America to be.

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Hey! Guess who still gets mega tax breaks under the GOP budget plan? BIG OIL!

By on March 20, 2012 in GOPocrisy, Republican-Fail

It’s good to be the king

Not only is Paul Ryan’s “Path to Poverty” budget going to give rich people tax breaks and cut benefits to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security while maintaining current levels of military spending, it does something else, too. The GOP budget preserves massive subsidies to Big Oil companies while cutting investments in renewable energy.

[I]t appears that House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) proposed FY 2013 budget resolution would retain a decade’s worth of oil tax breaks worth $40 billion. And his budget would cut billions of dollars from investments to develop alternative fuels and clean energy technologies that would serve as substitutes for oil and help protect middle-class families from volatile energy prices as well as create jobs.…

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GOP primary candidates: “Obama wants high gas prices because…um…”

By on March 18, 2012 in Barack Obama, GOPocrisy, President Obama, Republican-Fail

Dude, that doesn’t even make any sense

Mitt Romney claimed this week that the Obama administration wants gas prices to be high:

[Romney] called for President Barack Obama to fire what he called the “gas hike trio” of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson.

“These three, this trio of his energy team, have been working like crazy to drive up the price of gasoline. And that’s just what they’ve done,” he said. “Given the fact he’s changed his policy, given the fact he now wants lower gasoline prices, I think its time for him to fire his gas hike trio.

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Rick Santorum: “It should be illegal to read off a teleprompter” a month after he used one a CPAC

By on March 12, 2012 in GOPocrisy, Rick Santorum

Hypocrisy, thy name is Rick Santorum

Good goddess, are you freaking kidding me??? Rick Santorum actually said, “it should be illegal to read off a teleprompter”. No, seriously.

You mean like this, Rick, when you were at CPAC?

Photo credit: Washington Post

Let’s review, from my post last month:

Here’s Joe Scarborough with his teleprompters.

And Marco Rubio with his.

And House Speaker John Boehner with his.

And Senator Jim Demint with his.

And Senator Mike Lee with his.

And Herman Cain with his.

And Michele Bachman with hers.

And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell with his.…


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