Republicans and hypocracy

[mindwalker_i]

I was just reading a thread on Republicans celebrating the projects in their districts funded by Obama's omnibus spending bill that they voted against, and I started to wonder what's really going on here. On so many issue, Republicans seem hypocritical, with them voting against economic recovery yet taking advantage of it, and talking about reducing the deficit while they went along with all of Bush's policies, domestic and foreign.

Specifically, I question whether Republicans actually believe what they're saying.

Honestly, the double standards are obvious, the hypocracy is obvious. You can't miss it if you're paying the slightest bit of attention. Do you really think they believe what they're saying? What I think is that they know enough to know what's good for the country and they know how good a lot of the programs from Obamam and the democrats are. They also know that they have to play to the crazy Republican base, which means they have to vote against anything that costs money and isn't part of national "defense," regardless of the need for it. They probably look at that town in Colorado that is cutting out street lights and not mowing the lawns in parks and understand that it's a bad thing, that the city or state, or country needs money to do things, but they can't openly support it without the danger of pissing off the base. And that base is too dumb, too ideologically trapped, to dare actually looking at what their leaders do, as long as they vote against the program. As long as the republican congress critters don't support the money-spending programs, it doesn't matter what actually gets passed.

So the republicans can't openly support things they think are good because they're trapped by an ideology. Their supporters are just as trapped by an ideology and care more for the support of that ideology than for the actual outcome. I wonder how often that happens on our side.

$0.02

[Old Codger]

1. fact is

They lie, steal and cheat, they are republicans, goes with the territory, they are politicians, that pretty much says it all for both sides... they live inside the beltline of DC which has no apparent means of communication with the rest of the country.

[mfcorey1]

2. Lord help us all

If they ever return to power. It will be Armageddon.

[mrcheerful]

3. But that is exactly what cons have been doing since the New Deal

out of their districts cons made fun of The WPA and other programs FDR enacted but back in the districts where folks had those type of jobs they took credit for the programs. A more recent example would be how Reagan single handed the USSR to tear down the Berlin wall. But then isn't that how they stay in office? Either by bringing the pork home or saying they did.

[mindwalker_i]

4. That's it exactly

They tout the programs they voted against, so they get the benefit of saying how great the programs are, and they get the benefit of saying they voted against them. How often do democrats do the same thing? It would be naive to say it never happens. The art of being a politician is to be what the most people want you to be. And I don't really have a problem with that.

I really wish we could do away with political partied completely. Then they would have to run on their ideas rather than their brand.

[mrcheerful]

5. The problem seems to be when the Dem's do it the press calls them out and

drags them through the coals. There's always been a double standard on how things work for cons vs Dems. People tend to shrug, say that the cons are the party of the rich so that means everything's working fine, look the other way, nothing to see. Yet a Dem sneezes and media is all over on them, omg he sneezed he is spreading disease that he got from a poor person, its an epidemic, the country is going to die.

[Political Heretic]

6. You know what else sucks? Hypocr*I*sy

[upi402]

7. We don't do it so much, we eat our own

Ya gotta be tough to be a Dem.
Republicans = hypocracy! And add perversion to that as well.

[mindwalker_i]

8. Yeah, democrats seems to have this problem

With facts and stuff.

[upi402]

9. TROLL