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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums“Republicans”: Don’t Fix the Problem, Make it a Secret Instead.
http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2014/11/17/republicans-dont-fix-the-problem-make-it-a-secret-instead/Source info at the link, yup.
Its a reflex, really: anytime Teapubbies want to do a thing and some pesky thing like legality or optics interferes, they do the thing anyway, and hide it. Look in your dictionary under Teapot Dome or Watergate for some classic examples. But it didnt stop there, Cranksters: here are three examples from recent American history, showing that the GOPee is all about them thar secret thangs:
Number A: Recently, a lot of drug companies (ya know, they exist to make money by saving lives) have refused to sell Ohio drugs if theyll be used to end lives instead of saving them. This puts a crimp in the execution-via-lethal-injection process that is so beloved by conservatives. In short, its getting hard for the Gummint to kill people quickly and cheaply.
So, theres the thing Teapubs want to do: kill convicts. Do they come up with a new way of doing this, or an alternative punishment? Nope. In Ohio, they are trying to pass a law that would hide death drug information instead:
State lawmakers are preparing to introduce legislation to address legal concerns about Ohios administration of the death penalty, likely including language to keep secret the names of sources of execution drugs. Batchelder said the legislation has been drafted, and he anticipated its introduction in coming days. He declined to offer specifics about what would be included in the bill, though he said it would address issues that have arisen from court decisions related to the death penalty. We have a problem in the sense that some of the federal judges have held that our existing system does not provide due process safeguards for those who have been convicted of homicide, he said.
Got that? The problem is that Ohio (like some other states) is unconstitutionally executing convicts. Do the Repubs seek a constitutional way to execute said offenders? Of course not, dont be silly. Tis far easier to hide their actions than to solve the problem at hand.
Letter Two: also in newly-Red-ified Ohio (motto: As red as Ohio States Scarlet, as Confederate as Ohio States Gray), Guv Kasich wanted to hand his Kronies a lot of Kash. Alas, thats illegal. So, he set up a secret money-laundering scam called JobsOhio, and then added more secrecy when the public objected to having their collective pockets picked by a load of millionare motherf***rs. The link provides a good summary of the matter, sans cranky snark and lingua franca.
Thirdly: since its illegal for Parties to coordinate with outside groups, Repubs had a problem in the recent election cycle: how to, well, break that law and get away with it. The solution? A secret Twitter account, of course. Click the link there, its pretty f***ing outrageous s***.
Nor are these the only examples. Twould take a hundred bloggers a hundred hours to document a hundredth of these crimes. They are sufficient to illustrate the situtation: the scumball Republicans that Americans have stupidly put in charge of 2/3 of our government are a load of uber-liars and thieves who are not only adept at hiding their crimes: they instinctively hide them. Trust them not a bit, Gentle Reader. Not a single bit.
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