Jake DiMare wonders when John Boehner and his cohorts will drop the sanctimonious act, shut the hell up, and get to work.
I know there are some who will click this link and then comment that Republican House of Scandal, which highlights a new Republican ethics scandal each month, is an obvious, one-sided, partisan attack. I’m sure there are others who are itching to point out there are plenty of Democrats in Congress, and the government in general, who have scandalous ethics records. I’ll just go ahead and agree in advance.
Nevertheless, there are reasons I feel perfectly comfortable with sharing this link:
- Republican House Speaker John Boehner’s ‘Zero-Tolerance’ policy for Congressional ethics. Apparently it’s not so black and white for his fellow Republicans.
- The generally pious & sanctimonious Republican pretense.
- The ‘just say no’ Republican led House of Representatives is a major reason the 112th has been the worst ‘do-nothing’ Congress since Harry S. Truman was president.
Among the list of ethics problems there’s one which is really relevant to the Good Men Project. In September of 2011 a Chicago judge asked Representative Joe Walsh, darling of the Tea Party, why he owes his ex-wife and three children over $100,000 in child support. Ironically, Joe is one of those guys who won’t shut the hell up about the government budget and enjoys lecturing his colleagues about fiscal responsibility.
Hats off Joe! What a model citizen…
I’d say he has a point. If someone runs for office on a platform of “family values and christian morality,” then gets caught screwing their male intern, it means more than if the person who ran on a platform of “Gay rights and fix the economy,” was caught doing the same thing.
Its not that it was ok for the second politician to cheat on their partner, its just that they aren’t a hippocrite.
So what is it that kept you from slamming the dems? I suspect it’s because the dems are so corrupt that it’s a dog-bites-man story. Right? Pledging to drain the swamp isn’t hypocritical?
Might’s well fess up, Jake. It’s a partisan hack job, with less than the usual smokescreen.
And what to you propose the legislators are supposed to do that they are not doing? See the dems for a budget….
I’m pointing out hypocrisy, not scandal. I’m sure there is a great scorecard of political scandals somewhere…that’s not what I am talking about. I am talking about the ‘holier that though attitude’ which is the backbone of the GOP doctrine…And why it falls on the deaf ears of this independent voter.
Alinksy Rule #4.
I was going to respond, but then I realized you did not say anything. Why throw mud, if you have no message?
Sorry it’s too subtle for you. The message is Republicans are the worst kind of hypocrites.
“Republicans are the worst kind of hypocrites.”
That is the mud. What is the message? More mud? Mud on mud? And when the world is buried in mud, then what will you complain about? That politics is too ugly?
I can’t disagree with Anthony… We do need to be careful not to throw mud as we accuse others of throwing mud, right? I also would like to invite anyone who wants to write about what’s happening within politics from an opposing side to step in and submit a blog piece to me. I know there are many of our commenters who have strong feelings about the health care initiatives that are going around right now, particularly about birth control and men’s health, and I would love to get some opposing points of view happening in our Good Feed Blog.… Read more »
Anthony, I’m genuinely curious to know, do you have anything of substance to add on the topic of Republican hypocrisy?
No, I do not. That is why I did not write an article about it.