REPUBLICAN HYPOCRICY

BuzzFlash interviews Salon columnist and political editor of the New York Observer, Joe Conason:

I believe that in the White House, someone like Karl Rove puts out stuff that’s false with great political calculation, and he knows that a lot of it isn't true. On the other hand, there are people on the radio like [Chicago radio personality] Mancow, to take one example, who probably can't tell the difference –- isn't bright enough to know the difference between propaganda and facts. So there’s a broad spectrum of people out there promoting these views, promoting this ideology, and promoting a very skewed view of the world. Some of them know that it’s phony, or that some of it’s phony, and some of them have no idea at all.

For the full interview, click here.

Thanks to Tom Tomorrow.

and speaking of Republican hypocricy...
TEXAS REPUBLICANS BOTH SUCK AND BLOW
(with apologies to Bart Simpson)

Check this out:

In addition, on Monday, Gov. Rick Perry stated, "Today a minority of members in the state Senate prevented the Senate from finishing important work and killed legislation that would have generated an additional $800 million to help meet the priorities of our citizens. We could have spent that money to boost Medicaid payments for home care services, to help pregnant women receive Medicaid services, to expand health insurance for children of working families, to provide HIV medications for afflicted Texans, to train new doctors, or to address a number of other health and human services needs." This is disingenuous.

The facts are that this money has not been lost and exists as follows in rounded amounts: $372 million in appropriated federal funds, $231 million freed up as a result of an error in the implementation date of a transportation bill, $98 million as a result of various vetoes by the governor and $92 million from converting a new $30 fine attached to traffic tickets into fees that come to the state. The very next day, following these statements by Perry, the Republicans defeated every attempt by the House Democrats to use this money for the very same purposes stated in the governor's press release.

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