Tag: hypocrisy watch

Hookers and bribes over at the Treasury Department!

(Via @davidhauptmann) Ah, marvel at our squeaky-clean, Marvelous New Day, ever-so-ethical executive branch:

Treasury Department officials have been cited for soliciting prostitutes, breaking conflict-of-interest rules and accepting gifts from corporate executives, according to the findings of official government investigations.

The revelations of unethical behavior at Treasury are detailed in little-noticed documents posted this month on governmentattic.org, which publishes agency responses to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

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WaPo’s Steven Pearlstein wants to get Democrats, political terrorists together to solve problems!

…Wait, WHAT did he call a majority of the population again?

Steven Pearlstein, April 20, 2012 (H/T: Hot Air Headlines)

…something fundamental seems to have changed in the political marketplace. The winning strategy is no longer to be more moderate than your opponent, to offer a bigger tent. Instead, it is to be more zealous and committed to your party’s ideology.

Steven Pearlstein, August 7, 2009:

The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on the effort to reform the health-care system have been so misleading, so disingenuous, that they could only spring from a cynical effort to gain partisan political advantage. By poisoning the political well, they’ve given up any pretense of being the loyal opposition. They’ve become political terrorists, willing to say or do anything to prevent the country from reaching a consensus on one of its most serious domestic problems.

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Sure, we can discuss Republican ‘stimulus’ hypocrisy…

…but first – as Greg Mankiw kind of points out – I’m going to need every Democrat out there yelling about ‘tax cuts for the wealthy’ to provide documentation showing their voluntary overpayment of taxes at a pre-cut level, plus of course their history of attacking for hypocrisy Democrats who did not voluntarily overpay. Once we do that, we can get to us… no, wait: we still need to address why so many Democratic politicians get around this problem by NOT PAYING THEIR TAXES IN THE FIRST PLACE. Silly me.

Still want to play, Democrats? – Because both my and Allahpundit’s response is pretty much going to be automatic, and unlike the Democrats’ phony ‘outrage’ it addresses a situation that the American people actually consider outrageous.

Moe Lane

PS: It’s not an ‘illogical’ attack, Greg. It’s a ‘desperate’ one.

Crossposted to RedState.