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Two wrongs absolutely do not make a right, but they can certainly expose blantant hypocrisy.
According to the Progress Report, Center for American Progress, 3 April 2007 (LINK):
“Because Americans strongly back a timeline to redeploy from Iraq (LINK), conservatives have focused their opposition to the recently-passed Iraq redeployment legislation on the domestic spending that is attached.”
George W. Bush, with his best Texas swagger and staccato scriptreading, sidled up to the Rose Garden microphone yesterday and vowed to veto Democratic “PORK.” The man has balls.
When it comes to PORK, his rubber-stamp Congress sucked the marrow out of the hambone of record spending for six years!
Continuing, “For example, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) recently stated, ‘They used this serious effort, what should have been a serious effort to fund the troops, as an opportunity ... to get PORK for various and sordid products back home.’ (LINK)
“Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-MS) added, ‘So why are we going through this exercise of heaping PORK on the backs of our men and women in uniform and trying to put artificial dates, which will not occur?’ (LINK)
“But just one year ago, these same conservatives endorsed the emergency supplemental bill that included $15 billion in domestic spending (LINK), including ‘$4 billion for farmers, $1.1 billion for Gulf Coast fisheries and $1 billion in grants to states.’
“The bill also included the notorious $700 million Railroad to Nowhere in Mississippi (LINK), reportedly the largest earmark ever, sponsored by Lott. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) introduced an amendment aimed at eliminating Lott's egregious PORK project, but it was defeated. Fully 18 senators who last week opposed the Iraq spending bill - including McConnell and Lott - voted last year to preserve the Railroad to Nowhere. (LINK) See a list of the 18 senators who endorsed the PORK here: LINK
“Conservatives are now complaining about ‘PORK’ to distract from their real problem with the Iraq legislation: the fact that it forces President Bush to change course (in Iraq). These senators want to give Bush a blank check to wage a war without end; they just don't want to admit it to their constituents.”
So, the next time you see Republicans, including George W. Bush, talking about Democrats and PORK projects, you will know they are serving up a big steaming platter of roasted hypocrisy with an apple in its mouth.
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Postscript: And speaking of hypocrisy, have you noticed the very right-wing proponents of torture at Gitmo and at the hands of the CIA in foreign prisons are horrified and indignant at the idea of Iranians torturing British sailors?
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” was the very argument Democrats made against this administration’s penchant for such punishment.
Hypocrisy! To quote an old Southern expression: “Talk about the possum calling the hog narrow-faced.”
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Well done. Perhaps Senator McConnell can use his influence to expose wasteful spending in the Department of Labor? Senator Lott is probably auditioning to get his old job back; you know, before he endorsed Strom Thurmond for President.
Frodo believes that some people earn credibility, and some only lose it.
Old Trent and I go back a long way. When I was out of high school, my roommate signed me up for a 50-cent membership in the “Mississippi Young Republicans,” where we hobnobbed with Trent, Thad Cochran and Haley Barbour. Years later, my older sister Mary, may she rest in peace, told me that Trent Lott was “a bad little boy,” who used to throw rocks at me when we lived on Dean Drive in Grenada, Mississippi. Just recently I found out that my only surviving aunt, 98-year-old Aunt Loree of Jennings, La., and Trent’s mother are first cousings. Small world, huh? BJ :-)
Anyone want dip with those pork rinds?
I bet the apple in the mouth of that steaming platter of hypocrisy
will be traced all the way back to the Garden of Eden and that conniving
Eve, a Democrat no doubt, will be blamed for the whole damned thing.
She's the only person in recorded Biblical history who ever encountered
a talking snake!
There were two snakes over 2 /12 ft long in my yard this week end. Neither
one of them said a word. But, they made me rip loose with a "lotta" 'em!
Whole hog or nothing? All of it, of course. Including the apple!
You keep laying it on the line, lady.
Msjan, Frodo recently saw a bumper sticker which you might enjoy. It read as follows:
EVE WAS FRAMED
Frodo, I can believe she was framed! By a Radical Republican at that! Who else would have told Adam and Eve they were naked? And clothed them with fig leaves?
And forthwith, that naughty Adam wore a hole in the one Eve was wearing and she brought forth sons, Cain and Able. Out of wedlock! Not a word is said about them having a wedding. (If they had, I figured they probably would have had a Garden Wedding.) They just ate that forbidden apple. So God shoved them into the back of his Plymouth and drove then out of the Garden. (He didn't give them any abstinence training! So God's not a Republican.)
Being an ole farm gal myself, I've known since I was a wee wee tot that God was a farmer. Because one day when he was ticked off again, he said he was going to raise cane as soon as he got able! That's how I heard it read in Sunday School anyway.
So, I can see how Eve was framed. Then shamed on as as unwed mother. Man, that just rots my socks! How about you?
Frodo is unable to accept the fact that God drove a Plymouth. Not enough leg room. Since we're commenting about "the whole hog," I suspect the vehicle was actually a Harley-Davidson, with a side car. Frodo is very sensitive to political correctness.
Well, Frodo, I know it was a Plymouth, just like I know the disciples drove a Honda. In that Good Book we hear so much about it's written, "In a "Fury" God drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden. The "Fury" is a Plymouth. And in the New Testament, it is written, "All the disciples came together in one "Accord" which is a Honda.
Now, that doesn't mean God didn't purus around on a Harley Hog and
wear leather while checking out the skins of base porkers, and gathering up the ingredients for that steaming platter of hypocrisy with an apple in its mouth, of which, his scribe Sir Cumspect, embedded in the side car, apprised us. The hippy-crits lost that banquet ball game when they lost their home base!
I'm still trying to find out what brand of apple Adam and Eve ate. If it was a Rome Beauty, then I'll get Gold or Red Delicious or Granny Smith or a pear. OOOphs! Nix the pear! That reminds of the fate of the pair in the Garden, that didn't get their Garden Wedding. Apparently their boss ate a crabapple and was pretty sour with those two children he drove out in his Fury.Do you think applesauce and apple butter have the same consequences?
Such big issues tax the mind! But, political correctness demands honest answers. I'm gonna have to sleep on these a while.
MsJan and Mr. Frodo: I dont' know what God drove when he drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, BUT, I can tell you what Southern Protestant "preachers" drove in the '50s - dark green Studebakers. Never met one who didn't. The company must have given them big discounts. Mr. Frodo, MsJan is putting one over on you. She knows her Bible, and she knows it never specifically mentions the "fruit" being an apple. You two (and all you other readers) have a good Easter! BJ
Msjan, Msjan, Msjan, you have to remember that translating into the King James version from the original Aramaic means that some words may not be literally interpreted. A "fury" may also be a "tornado," or even a "durango." Given the probability of recall relative to any of these makes and models, Frodo remains relatively certain that the vehicle in question would have to have been a Sabra (bet you have to look that one up!).
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