Tag Archives: hypocrisy

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis is taking a break from fighting Joe Biden to ask for federal help. On Saturday, the Florida Governor (who is in Utah preparing to address that state’s Republican Convention) requested a major disaster declaration for Broward County. “If granted by the White House, a Major Disaster Declaration will provide a wide range of federal …

The Daily Beast reports: The National Republican Congressional Committee quietly deleted a fundraising page Saturday that took aim at one of their largest donors, the parent company of Bud Light, Anheuser-Busch. In the 2022 cycle alone, Anheuser-Busch and its employees gave the NRCC $464,505. The NRCC’s back peddling follows conservatives calling for a boycott of the beer company after they …

Denver’s Westworld reports: On Monday, April 10, Representative Lauren Boebert’s eldest son, Tyler, was supposed to appear in court for a mandatory review hearing related to a September 2022 car crash that left a friend hospitalized and led to a misdemeanor charge of “careless driving causing bodily harm.” It would have been the last pit stop on Tyler’s months-long road …

Florida Politics reports: Marco Rubio is the latest Republican to roundly condemn former President Donald Trump’s indictment. The Senator told the Fox & Friends crew that Trump’s indictment was reminiscent of “Third World” countries and that it could set a dangerous precedent. “I watch it happen all the time in the Third World and in developing countries,” Rubio contended. “They …

“Obviously, I’m a Christian, and there are standards that we like to uphold, but none of us do it perfectly. One of the biggest things that I look to is ‘him who knows to do right and doesn’t, it’s sin.’ “And I mean, there’s things all throughout the week that I know is right to do. And sometimes, I don’t …

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: Utah’s Rep. Burgess Owens will chair a congressional hearing on the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan later this week. The program, which cancels up to $20,000 of student loan debt for tens of millions of borrowers, is currently on hold pending a ruling from the Supreme Court. In a press release, Owens telegraphed how …

Via email from the Family Research Council: This week, 17 Senate Democrats released a series of letters harassing major pharmaceutical chains about their plans to sell chemical abortion drugs. In one letter, the senators applied pressure to Walgreens, criticizing the corporation for doing “the disservice of adding to” what they call “great confusion about abortion access.” The letter critiques Walgreens …

The Fort Worth Weekly reports: Kara Cunningham says that, “ironically,” she “just didn’t want to get him fired.” The 34-year-old mother of two is talking about Everett Trost. The man she claims impregnated her last winter served as her direct supervisor at Patriot Mobile, the multi-million-dollar Grapevine cell phone company and PAC aligned with far-right causes. Patriot Mobile asserted its …

The Associated Press reports: Tennessee Lt. Gov. Randy McNally announced Monday that he is “pausing” all social media activity after revelations that he repeatedly commented on posts of nearly nude photos of a young gay model and other LGBTQ personalities. McNally, a Republican, initially stated last week that he “had no intention of stopping” when pressed about why he repeatedly …

The Huffington Post reports: Tennessee Lt. Gov. Randy McNally (played by Molly Kearney), who made multiple comments on a gay 20-year-old man’s racy Instagram photos despite support for bills targeting LGBTQ people, said he’d support “any man who puts his body online for others” in a “Weekend Update” parody on “SNL.” The mock governor told “Weekend Update” co-host Colin Jost …

The Hill reports: Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) slammed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) at a Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Thursday about “compliance with committee oversight,” pointing out that the chairman of the Judiciary Committee previously failed to comply with a congressional subpoena. “I think it’s quite rich that we are talking about subpoena compliance under a chairman of a full committee …

Newsweek reports: Anti-abortion Republican Lauren Boebert has said that her 17-year-old son will make her a grandmother in April. She also gave her thoughts on abortion rights and praised the “rural conservative communities” that “value life.” Boebert was talking at an event hosted by conservative non-profit Moms for America. She said that one of her four sons, 17-year-old Tyler, and …

The Daily Beast reports: As Jimmy Kimmel explained during his late-night monologue on Monday, he woke up to dozens of text messages over the weekend about a report in Rolling Stone that said while Donald Trump was president he tried to pressure Disney to rein in the host’s jokes at his expense. “In other words, President Karen demanded to speak …

The Florida Phoenix reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis and First Lady Casey DeSantis held a reception at the Governor’s Mansion Friday to honor Black History Month, just days after civil rights advocates marched to the Capitol and college students walked out of classrooms in Tallahassee to protest the DeSantis administration’s handling of a college-level African American studies course for Florida high …

Earlier this week it was reported that Elon Musk was livid that President Biden’s Super Bowl tweet got five times the engagement that his did. Musk immediately boarded his private jet to raise hell in Twitter’s San Francisco office, where his real-life cousin ordered engineers to tweak the algorithm so that all of Musk’s tweets would get pushed to every …

The Washington Post reports: As Gov. Ron DeSantis prepared for an election night party in downtown Tampa last year, city officials received a surprising — and politically sensitive — request. The Republican governor’s campaign wanted weapons banned from his victory celebration at the city-run Tampa Convention Center, a city official said in emails obtained by The Washington Post. And the …

The Hill reports: Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) on Wednesday defended his proposal to sunset all federal legislation after five years and slammed President Biden as “confused” in response to Biden’s claim at the State of the Union address that some Republicans want to sunset Social Security and Medicare. “In my plan, I suggested the following: All federal legislation sunsets in …

The Guardian reports: CBS host Margaret Brennan said: “You introduced a bill to limit terms to two six-year terms in office for senators. Why aren’t you holding yourself to that standard? You said you’re running for a third term.” Cruz said: “Well, listen, I’m a passionate defender of term limits. I think that Congress would work much better if every …

The Insider reports: Republican spending at the infamous DC hotel that was once owned by former President Donald Trump has dwindled to a pittance since he sold it, FEC records show. The glittering Trump International Hotel housed and entertained numerous Republican officials, candidates and lawmakers throughout the Trump presidency. But a new report from the ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsiblity …

The Hill reports: Rep. James Comer (R-Ky,) the newly appointed House Oversight and Accountability Committee chairman on Sunday sidestepped multiple questions about why the panel won’t investigate former President Trump over his handling of classified documents, despite plans to probe President Biden for similar offenses. “With respect to investigating President Trump, there have been so many investigations of President Trump. …