Red State, Republican, T-Bag, “Right-wing” & Conservative Christian Hypocrisy

(Nov. 2008 to April 2012)

11-7-2008 Republican Conservative Christian Sarah Palin enthusiastically practices socialism, Alaska-style: http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/581484.html

1-26-2009 Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years, by Thom Hartmann,: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0

3-22-2009 Red State Socialism and the Politics of Stimulus: http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/001439.htm

4-2010 The Red State Ripoff: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/04/the_red_state_ripoff.html

4-30-2009 The Two Santa Claus Theory, by David Dayen,: http://www.calitics.com/diary/8718/the-two-santa-claus-theory

4-18-2010 Red-State Moochers Federal Taxes Favor Those Who Complain the Most About Federal Taxes http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/04/18/red-state-moochers-federal-taxes-favor-those-who-complain-the-most-about-federal-taxes/

5-17-2010 Republican Conservative Christian Rep. Bachmann’s clinic takes in thousands from “socialized medicine”: http://minnesotaindependent.com/57982/michele-bachmann-profits-from-socialized-medicine

6-29-2010 Republicans Object To Bill For Homeless Veterans: “This is a bipartisan, common-sense bill that would support veterans in my home state of Washington and across the country. I am going to continue fighting for it to pass. And I urge Senate Republicans to end their obstruction and allow homeless women veterans across the country to get the support they have earned.”: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/29/republicans-object-to-bil_n_629332.html

7-30-2010 Republicans block healthcare for 9/11 first responders: Republicans blocked legislation to pay to care for those who have fallen ill due to their exposure to debris during the clean-up after the nation’s worst terrorist attack…….Nearly 16,000 responders and 2,700 others are currently sick and receiving treatment, according to estimates released by the lawmakers who introduced the measure. More than 40,000 responders are in medical monitoring and 71,000 individuals are enrolled in a World Trade Center health registry: http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2010/07/30/house-republicans-block-bill-to-pay-the-healthcare-for-ill-911-responders/

8-19-2010 While it was fashionable to run on anti-federal government platforms this campaign cycle, it is hard to ignore that Alaska has a notorious love-hate relationship with federal cash. And many might say that the relationship, for the large part, actually falls more on the “love” side: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/business/19stimulus.html

9-20-2010 Alaska Republican-Tea Party Conservative Christian Senate candidate Joe Miller, who claims Government is too big and Socialism is bad, admits taking farm subsidies: http://alaskadispatch.com/dispatches/politics/6880-alaska-senate-candidate-joe-miller-admits-taking-farm-subsidies

9-23-2010 What the Conservative do not talk about publicly when on Sept. 23 2010, presenting to the world the ‘Pledge For America’ is that VA Hospitals will be Privatized and Veterans will be forced To buy Insurance: http://mediamatters.org/research/201009230020

9-28-2010 Anti-Government Tea Partier Conservative Christian Sharron Angle Gets Health Care from the Federal Government: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/09/28/anti-government-tea-partier-sharron-angle-gets-health-care-from-the-federal-government/

10-5-2010 Joe Miller also thinks federal unemployment insurance is constitutionally questionable. But it turns out his wife benefited from it in the early part of the decade — after she left a job working for him: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/joe-millers-wife-received-unemployment-benefits-miller-called-not-constitutionally-authorized.php

10-9-2010 Joe Miller also relied on technicalities to obtain a low-income hunting and fishing license from the state of Alaska: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/homeowning-lawyer-joe-miller-sought-low-income-hunting-and-fishing-license-in-alaska.php

10-25-2010 Despite Saying Government Intervention Puts Industry In A ‘Coma,’ Raese’s Biz Takes Millions In Taxpayer Funds – http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/25/raese-government-contracts/

11-1-2010 Pundits Wrong on Slashing Military Benefits – Decisions to cut military retirement benefits have a real impact on people who selflessly sacrificed the prime of their lives to serve a greater good, unless you are a Conservative/Republican: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/11/01/pundits-wrong-on-slashing-military-benefits/comment-page-1/#comment-131609

11-15-2010 GOP/Republican Senator John Ensign of Nevada who railed against healthcare and earmarks got $960,000 healthcare earmark: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/revealed-republican-senator-railed-healthcare-earmarks-960000-healthcare-earmark/

11-15-2010 Conservative Republican Andy Harris, an anesthesiologist Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare platform surprised fellow freshmen at a Monday orientation session by demanding to know why his government-subsidized health care plan takes a month to kick in: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45181.html

11-19-2010 They Got (Way) Richer, And You Didn’t. Tell Us Again Why Socialism Is Bad?: http://www.commondreams.org/further/2010/11/19-1

12-09-2010 Republicans to 9/11 responders: Drop dead — How they voted: http://www.examiner.com/cultural-issues-in-national/republicans-to-9-11-responders-drop-dead-the-list-of-names-2

January 20, 2011 Thanks to Socialized Medicine, Dick Cheney Is Still Alive:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/thanks-to-socialized-medi_b_811778.html

April 2011 Michele Bachmann has become well known for her anti-government tea-bagger antics, protesting health care reform and every other government “handout” as socialism. What her followers probably don’t know is that Rep. Bachmann is, to use that anti-government slur, something of a welfare queen. That’s right, the anti-government insurrectionist has taken more than a quarter-million dollars in government handouts thanks to corrupt farming subsidies she has been collecting for at least a decade: http://abovethechatter.blogspot.com/2011/04/michelle-bachmanns-inner-marxist.html

Socialism is good for the wealthy politicians of the USA, just ask these 114 folks, (mostly Republicans, Conservative Christians and or T-Party members): Stimulating Hypocrisy: 114 Lawmakers Block Recovery While Taking Credit For Its Success: http://thinkprogress.org/touting-recovery-opposed/

The Most Hypocritical States are Usually “Red”: http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2193/1/?newsmaker=109&redirectURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Fgalleries%2Fnewsmaker%2Fpolitics%2F

April 20, 2011 Republican Governors Quietly Accept Federal Dollars — While Attacking Federal Spending http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/republican-governors-quietly-accept-federal-dollars-despite-spending-attacks.php

2-29-2012 Ayn Rand Worshippers Should Face Facts: Blue States Are the Providers, Red States Are the Parasites – Blue States Pay Taxes, Red States Receive Benefits: http://www.alternet.org/story/154338/

Older stories:

3-12-2006 The Tax Foundation – Why Do Some States Feast on Federal Spending, Not Others: http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/1397.html