Republicans and Medicare: “……Don’t cut Medicare. The reform bills passed by the House and Senate cut Medicare by approximately $500 billion. This is wrong.” So declared Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, in a recent op-ed article written with John Goodman, the president of the National Center for Policy Analysis.

And irony died.

Now, Mr. Gingrich was just repeating the current party line. Furious denunciations of any effort to seek cost savings in Medicare — death panels! — have been central to Republican efforts to demonize health reform. What’s amazing, however, is that they’re getting away with it.

Why is this amazing? It’s not just the fact that Republicans are now posing as staunch defenders of a program they have hated ever since the days when Ronald Reagan warned that Medicare would destroy America’s freedom. Nor is it even the fact that, as House speaker, Mr. Gingrich personally tried to ram through deep cuts in Medicare — and, in 1995, went so far as to shut down the federal government in an attempt to bully Bill Clinton into accepting those cuts.

“……The bottom line, then, is that the crusade against health reform has relied, crucially, on utter hypocrisy: Republicans who hate Medicare, tried to slash Medicare in the past, and still aim to dismantle the program over time, have been scoring political points by denouncing Obama’s proposals for modest cost savings — savings that are substantially smaller than the spending cuts buried in their own proposals.” And if Democrats don’t get their act together and push the almost-completed reform across the goal line, this breathtaking act of staggering hypocrisy will succeed.” [ READ MORE ]

KLANS MAN and LIAR Newt Gingrich; Old GOP Talking Points Die Hard

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James Inhofe Still a Hypocrite

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Comedian Stephen Colbert Rips The Fox News LIARS on Global Warming

Obstructionist Greedy LIAR — Republican Senator Shelby

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“An Alaska judge has ordered the proceedings in Bristol Palin’s child custody case to remain open, the Anchorage Daily News reports.

Bristol’s attorney Thomas Van Flein said in court filings that Bristol seeks full legal and physical custody in the ‘best interest of the child,’ while allowing Johnston visitation rights.

‘Levi is not yet mature enough to take on significant parental responsibilities,’ Bristol says in her petition, the Daily News reports.” [ READ MORE ]

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Bristol Palin and her famous mother Sarah Palin are staunch evangelicals who frequently extol the virtues of family values. But Bristol, with encouragement from her mother, is seeking to keep Levi from having anything to do with her daughter.

For Sarah Palin vindictiveness and revenge trumps family values. Palin is furious because Levi has broadcast a lot of her dirty little secrets, and she will do anything to exact revenge.

Bristol’s claim that Levi is not yet mature to take on significant parental responsibilities is a joke — Levi and Bristol are too immature to raise a hamster, let alone her a child.

Having unprotected sex when you are too young to raise a child isn’t exactly proof of maturity. Regardless of how immature and irresponsible the young parents are, the innocent baby needs both a mother and a father.

Shame on the Palins for trying to prevent Levi from assuming the role of father to his beautiful baby.

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[ VIDEO ] — Rachel Maddow reacts to the news that Karl Rove has divorced his wife of 24 years, his second divorce despite exploiting the concept of “Traditional Marriage” as a political wedge issue to promote his clients — including War Criminal George W. Bush, for whom he was chief strategist.

The G.O.P. has always been a party of perverts, pretending to adhere to strict family values — which they themselves never practice. Here are examples of Republican hypocrisy on moral values. Other G.O.P Perverts include: [ DICK MORRIS ] [ TOILET MAN - LARRY E. CRAIG ] [ RUSH LIMBAUGH ] [ DAVID VITTER ]

Across the country, the party of “Family Values” consumes the most porn in the USA. 8 of top 10 porn-consuming states voted Republican in 2008 Presidential Election. [ READ MORE ]

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Ensign, Vitter and Coburn, are GOP legislators who have spent much of their careers touting “families values” and using their offices to promote “sexual morality.” Similarly Republicans have been pouring scorn on ACORN by the bucket — completely oblivious of their own transgressions — which are much worse!

Republican hypocrisy knows no bounds!

Senator Ensign’s Presidential Date Night

Senator Tom Coburn Caught in A Lie

Fox’s ACORN special pushes discredited conservative theory that Community Reinvestment Act caused financial crisis

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This week we have been treated to a large dose of “Southern Republican Hypocrisy,” the cornerstone of the G.O.P. The constant Republican “Sins of Flesh” stretch way down south — all the way to Buenos Aires, Argentina! Yeah, ..the party of “LESS GOVERNMENT” is now the party of MUCHO ASS!

Mark Sanford, the REPUBLICAN Governor of South Carolina who has been touted as a future presidential candidate, made a tearful apology yesterday, after admitting to SLUTTING with a woman in Argentina, using Obama’s STIMULUS Cash.

His eyes welling with emotion Jimmy Swaggart style, he said: “I’ve spent the last five days of my life crying in Argentina. I am committed to trying to get my heart right.” “The bottom line is this: I have been unfaithful to my wife. Let me apologize to my wife Jenny and my four boys … for letting them down.”

Even the troglodytes at FOX News, so embarrassed by yet another “family values” hypocrite in their midst, deliberately identified Governor Sanford as a Democrat. Rush Limbaugh, the BIG FAT REPUBLICAN “MULLAH” on radio lamented: “He could have been our JFK!,” but without the mob ties.

Mark Sanford, a child of BIGOT Newt Gingrich’s 1994 “Republican Revolution,” has fallen flat on his face ..and is a “FAMILY VALUES” disaster!

In the nineties he was a major squealer in the Clinton impeachment chorus; in 1998 he advocated for fellow Republican Bob Livingston’s removal as the speaker of the house, because of extramarital affairs.

I guess, the “hypocrite chicken” has come home to roost — from Buenos Aires, Argentina!

Mark Foley, David Vitter, Larry Craig, John Ensign …..as the list of “Phallic” G.O.P hypocrites continues to grow, Republicans for 2012 has began to resemble Agatha Christie’s “10 Little Indians.”

Another Jimmy Swaggart Moment

Sanford’s press Conference Confessional

The SANFORD Emails

Sanford Asks For Forgiveness

2012 – Republican Curse?

Sanford Joins The Ranks of Fallen Republicans

Is Sanford Done?

…and Stephen Colbert Declares Himself Governor of South Carolina!

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