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Hypocritical scold

01 Thursday Apr 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media, US Senate

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blatant hypocrisy, GOP hypocrites, judiciary, Mitt Romney, social media, Twitter, U.S. Senate

Today:

Mitt Romney @MittRomney
A Senate evenly split between both parties and a bare Democratic House majority are hardly a mandate to “go it alone.” The President should live up to the bipartisanship he preached in his inaugural address.
2:54 PM · Apr 1, 2021

One response:

Max Kennerly @MaxKennerly
Replying to @MittRomney
this you?
[….]
3:08 PM · Apr 1, 2021

Elections have consequences, my friend.

Afraid of the base

11 Wednesday Nov 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Roy Blunt, social media, US Senate

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Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

On a Sunday gabfest:

Senator Roy Blunt @RoyBlunt
This is a close election. There was no blue wave. There weren’t huge losses for Republican candidates. If there is a mandate, the mandate is for both sides to work together.
[….]
12:00 PM · Nov 8, 2020

Or, a true believer. Or both.

Some of the responses:

Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri: “The president wasn’t defeated by huge numbers, in fact he may not have been defeated at all.”

Blatant lying or completely delusional?

Yes.

Both sides to work together, you say? BOTH sides? So when Mitch starts stonewalling literally every bill and refusing to even hold debates, you’re gonna go to him and say “hey, both sides need to work together?”

Yeah, I thought not. Nice try.

“I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says, ‘Fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me…You can’t get fooled again.'”

Define close for me Roy. And both sides cannot work together when one side is a threat to our democracy.

..kinda like you have been so graciously working together with your opponents recently?

Roy, for the sake of the people, I hope both sides do work together, but it’s going to be hard to forget your hypocrisy in all of this.

The GOP hasn’t “worked” or “compromised” with their opponents for almost a decade

Our infrastructure is collapsing, the world is melting, and you want to pretend to be moderate
I’m not buying it

We’re from the SHOW-ME state
and repubs have shown us
their true nature

You lie, whereas the numbers don’t.

That’s not how Republicans have governed for the past four years, Roy. When you have a majority, you force your will on others. When the other side wins, you ask for compromise.

Why am I am not surprised with this BS from Roy? Dude, we’ve watched what you’ve done for the last four years. No where in your oath did you pledge allegiance to party and POTUS. You prostrated yourself at the feet of a mentally unfit toddler. We won’t forget. Justice is coming.

Time to start “working together”

It was your party that got us to 250,000 dead.

I can’t even believe I have to type that.
250,000 !!!!!!

Biden Won. Face Reality.

Merrick Garland.

Also this is much less close than the 2016 election and conservatives said Trump had a mandate from the people.

Math is hard.

Let me guess, first thing is getting that wasteful spending and deficit under control, right?

Like clockwork.

Hypocrite. Blunt said. “The president wasn’t defeated by huge numbers. In fact, he may not have been defeated at all.”

Where was this idea the past four years?

Biden will win the popular vote by more than any Republican has since 1988. If Democrats don’t have a mandate then the Republicans never have.

Shame on you. You had four years to try that, but nope.

Yea let’s work together. So when’s your next public town hall in STL?

Heh.

tell that to Moscow Mitch

And on and on.

This is Missouri.

The two faces of Vicky Hartzler

23 Sunday Jan 2011

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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ACA, Affordable Care Act, GOP hypocrites, Health care reform repeal, missouri, Vicky Hartzler

Freshman Representative Vicky Hartzler (R-4) is pretty sure that she’s a Godly woman. She’s even written a primer for Christians in politics, Running God’s Way: Step by Step to a Successful Political Campaign, which intersperses practical advice with scripture. It’s safe to assume that Rep. Hartzler knows her bible, so I can only wonder what she makes of the admonition in Luke 12:1 to “Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.”

I ask this because Hartzler’s only been in office for a few weeks and she’s already had some trouble hiding one or the other of her two faces. She ran against government handouts, and then attempted to justify federal farm subsidies (which have, incidentally, benefited her and her family quite handsomely). She attacked earmarks, but if Claire McCaskill’s remarks in an interview with SMP’s Michael Bersin are accurate, she’s now evidently decided that she’ll go after the earmark goodies anyway.

Most glaringly, though, last week Hartzler voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but refused to heed the call to reject her own federally provided health care insurance.  She essentially denied any moral culpability for endangering access to health care for those same taxpayers who foot the bill for her excellent health care.

Hypocrites are basically just liars who mostly lie about themselves, so it’s not that surprising that Hartzler has no compunction about parroting the usual, tired GOP falsehoods to justify her vote. In the brief statement she made on the house floor last Tuesday she said:

I’m a small business owner, myself, and I can tell you since this has passed that health insurance premiums have skyrocketed in anticipation of the mandates going to be forced on them.

Sadly for Hartzler’s veracity, Factcheck.org has addressed the issue of rising insurance premiums, summarizing the plentiful evidence showing that they are indeed going up – but at similar rates to those of the past 10 years, and that the reason is not the new law, but rather rising medical costs. And, as a moment’s reflection reminds us, none of the provisions of the ACA that are specifically designed to slow growth for medical costs have gone into effect yet.

I would, of course, be more than remiss here if I were to fail to to point out that small business owner Hartzler can also take advantage of a nice tax credit provided by the ACA to help pay for her employees’ health insurance – as lots of other small business owners have already figured out. I bet that if Vicky Two-face is actually eligible, she’ll manage to get in on this, just like she gobbles up farm subsidies and, potentially, earmarked pork.

Hartzler also stated that the ACA “… put another $1.2 trillion of debt on our country.” This is pure bilge. The ACA will pare the deficit down by $1.3 trillion over 20 years according to the CBO. In contrast, the GOP repeal bill, which our intrepid deficit fighter voted for, will actually add $230 billion to the deficit. The GOP response to this information, as exemplified by the good Christian Rep. Hartzler, is to keep repeating false claims, while mounting a spurious attack on the source of the figures, the CBO.

The most tone-deaf claim, though, was Hartzler’s effort to play on the fear of the individual mandate by branding the repeal bill a “freedom bill.” On this point, she actually is right – although not in the way she meant. Repealing the ACA will insure that many individuals are indeed free; free, that is, of any access to health care outside of emergency rooms – emergency room care, I might add, that the rest of us pay for through those ballooning insurance premiums Hartzler pretends to find so horrifying when she is trying to blame them on “Obamacare.”  

Which brings us back to the question of Vicky Hartzler’s federal insurance coverage. Since she loves freedom so much, shouldn’t she be willing to share in the freedom from good health care with which she seems so willing to gift us? Is she worthier than we are?  As a student of the Christian bible, perhaps, when she considers health care reform, she should keep in mind  Matthew 7:5:

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

Other postings about Vicky Two-face’s opposition to the ACA:

Vicky Hartzler: health care hypocrite?

Vicky Hartzler: OK to kill people – as long as it’s not “job-killing”

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