Hypocrisy: thy name is Legion

  It's hard not to repeat oneself when it comes to observing the current cadre of politicians in office.
  It's hard not to flail about, constantly complaining about hypocrisy, lies, reality disconnects.
  Nothing seems to matter when it comes to trying to make these people accountable for the  financial hole we've dug for ourselves (or they did for us).
  Let's pretend that both parties are at fault for the remarkable debt we have accumulated. (Bush left 500 billion dollars in debt, but the ridiculous stimulus package that the Democrats put through for what? for very little, far exceeded anything in modern memory for foolishness and irresponsibility. Examining the sexual habits of Chinese prostitutes and monkeys getting high were not essential in a financial crisis. Or ever.) 
  So we printed trillions of dollars for monkeys getting high.
  And now there's difficulty trying to establish even $100 billion in cuts. The President unveils cuts of $6 billion to great fanfare, while smiling behind his hand at the naivete of anyone who'd believe he's serious. That's, like, new toilet seat money.
  Administration negotiator Joe Biden leaves town to make an urgent trip to Moldova.
  Where's the President?
  Ever vigilant, our Commander in Chief soothed his anxiety by going golfing.

  So let's start this morning's look at hypocrites with the New York Times, the poor broken down old Grey Lady, who seems to be searching for her dentures when it comes to truth.

1) The New York Times

  In an editorial called "The Hollow Cry of Broke," the New York Times mocks the "fearmongering" of those critics who decry the size of the debt we are mounting. Concern over our fantastic debt is ado about nothing, the old Grey Lady claims, just as a family always has a mortgage or school tuition debt. The NY Times:

It’s all obfuscating nonsense, of course, a scare tactic employed for political ends. A country with a deficit is not necessarily any more “broke” than a family with a mortgage or a college loan. And states have to balance their budgets. Though it may disappoint many conservatives, there will be no federal or state bankruptcies.

  But wait, but wait! Back when Bush was president, the NY Times was concerned over the amount of borrowed money. Powerline has an extensive write up on the stinking hypocrisy involved here, although this piece goes back to 2009.

From the grim evidence of his deficit-stoking tax cuts, Mr. Bush hardly loses sleep over unbalanced books. Yet now comes his rare veto threat, a nod to the voters' growing anxiety over the crushing national debt.

  Apparently the nation's problems are not that urgent for these people. 
  How about this.
2) Michael Moore
  The capitalist Michael Moore, who is a fabulously wealthy mockumentary filmmaker who makes $40,000 per speech, says this:

To me, the solution is quite simple. First of all, we’re not broke. This country is not broke. The state of Wisconsin is not broke. There’s a ton of cash in this country, trillions of dollars of it.

  Wait. The governments, federal and local, are broke. Does Moore want to confiscate business's cash? It appears so.
  So what about the cash. Moore also said this:

They're sitting on the money, they're using it for their own — they're putting it someplace else with no interest in helping you with our life, with that money. We've allowed them to take that. That's not theirs, that's a national resource, that's ours. We all have this, we all benefit from this or we all suffer as a result of not having it.

  Of course, Michael Moore has taken money from the state of Michigan to subsidize his movies. And, yes, that would be taxpayer money. 

  We're not the first ones to say why don't we start with Michael Moore's cash.
  Personally I'll take the house on Torch Lake in lieu of cash. I don't want the penthouse in NYC. Although it'd be a trek to weekend on Torch Lake, I could handle it. After all, I don't have a house on Torch Lake; it's only egalitarian for me to have that house. Course he calls that $7 million house a "cabin," in keeping with his good ole working boy image, carefully crafted.

photo from 2010 Vision

  Michael Moore also appeared before the Wisconsin demonstrators yesterday, wheezing that he admired their trashing the Capitol building. Significantly, he had to read his notes for the short speech. One assumes he returned to his mansion, flying by personal jet, as he admonished the demonstrators to keep up their marble floored vigils even though cleaners had to wipe the marker off the walls of the historic building.

3) The Reid family

  In keeping with today's theme of utter, despicable stinking hypocrisy, we note that a major scandal is developing regarding Rory! (Reid)'s gubernatorial campaign in Nevada. Rory! who is the son of Harry! apparently arranged for numerous PACs to funnel money into his campaign. Created to look like they came from varying parts of the state, all the PACs originated in a Las Vegas residence. While Democrats ridiculed the Supreme Court Citizens United case and sought to deny the little guy the ability to organize PACs in favor of unions. From Open Secrets regarding the DISCLOSE act:

Under the new change, nonprofits would be exempt from certain disclosure requirements if they have been in existence for a decade, have at least 500,000 members, have chapters in all 50 states and do not use any corporate or labor union money to pay for their campaign-related expenditures.  

  The Las Vegas Sun has the story.

4) The United Nations/Iran

  Always relevant, the United Nations has voted to include Iran, which beats women for not wearing the proper clothing, in their women's rights panel.

  No commentary is necessary on this one, methinks.

5) Department of Homeland Security/Janet Napolitano

  A border agent is murdered. His only defense for his own safety was beanbags.

  And American Thinker covers the emerging Gunwalker controversy:

On Thursday night CBS ran a second storyhighlighting Project Gunwalker. Gunwalker is a cynical reference to an operation in which ATF agents allowed assault weapons to be purchased in the United States and "walked" across the southern border and into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. This allegation is denied by officials of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) or ATF. In fact, in a February 4^th, 2011 letter from Assistant Attorney General Weich to Senator Charles Grassley, Weich states: "that ATF 'sanctioned' or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons to a straw purchaser who then transported them into Mexico-is false."

  Janet Napolitano won't acknowledge that the German attack on two airmen was terrorism. In fact, she said this with regard to the actual word terrorism : We don't want to make the terrorism aperture too narrow.
  IOW, we want to make sure we keep the aperture open to condemn tea partiers and Loughner types because we're afraid to face the truth of what's happening in our country regarding attacks on its citizens.
6) President Felipe Calderon
  Mexican President Calderon calls for immigration reform...in our country. He thinks it's unfair that all those people get deported from our country back to his; he also is sad that 400 people die crossing our border.
  Reminder. Beanbags:

  Mexican drugrunners:

7) Mitt Romney

  Mitt Romney, oh, he of the great hair, is prancing around the country claiming that Obamacare bad, Romneycare good. 

  Suddenly states rights make all the difference with regard to the government taking over health care, even though health care in Massachusetts is drastically expensive, a prototype for government health care at a national level.

  Mitt's in deep denial. He wants to be president, but Romneycare disqualifies him in the eyes of many citizens. He's trying to cover up this problem by claiming states rights. Fail.

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  In conclusion, this week was a great one for observing hypocrisy in the elite political class. Out of energy to discuss it.

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