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They vote against the very ideas that were theirs to begin with...
McConnell's hypocrisy on campaign disclosure
McConnell remained a true believer in disclosure as a candidate for re-election in 1990, when he pledged to introduce a bill that would require full disclosure of donors to multi-candidate political-action committees.
Now that corporations are people, too, in the eyes of the court and free to spend at will on political causes, McConnell doesn't want his buddies in the nation's boardrooms pestered by any disclosure rules.
So, he's leading the filibuster that so far has blocked passage of a proposal to require corporations, unions and most other independent organizations to open up the books on their political spending.
The Thirty Year History Of Republicans Supporting the Individual Mandate
Republican support for the individual mandate policy goes back further than this health care reform discussion. Earlier this month, Julie Rovner profiled a history of the policy dating back to the 1980′s
In fact, says Len Nichols of the New America Foundation, the individual mandate was originally a Republican idea. “It was invented by Mark Pauly to give to George Bush Sr. back in the day, as a competition to the employer mandate focus of the Democrats at the time.”…
“We called this responsible national health insurance,” says Pauly. “There was a kind of an ethical and moral support for the notion that people shouldn’t be allowed to free-ride on the charity of fellow citizens.”
The policy was originally included in many Republican proposals including the proposals during the Clinton administration. The leading GOP alternative plan known as the 1994 Consumer Choice Health Security Act included the requirement to purchase insurance. Further, this proposal was based off of a 1990 Heritage Foundation proposal outlined a quality health system where “government would require, by law every head of household to acquire at least a basic health plan for his or her family.”
McCain-Palin proposed a market based cap-and-trade program to address climate change:
THEN: ”John McCain and Sarah Palin will establish a market-based system to curb greenhouse gas emissions, mobilize innovative technologies, and strengthen the economy.”
NOW: Palin claims, cap-and-trade (which is part of President Obama’s plan) “…is an enormous threat to our economy. It would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage.”
The Democratic Party (http://www.democrats.org/a/2009/07/sarah_palins_fl.php - broken link)
It would be funny if it were not so pathetic. I really wish we has a third part, but these Republican jokers and frauds need to be shown the door.
They won't answer these questions. I point out their hypocrisy daily and they either ignore it or attack the messenger. Great examples, good luck getting through to them though.
They won't answer these questions. I point out their hypocrisy daily and they either ignore it or attack the messenger. Great examples, good luck getting through to them though.
And if I wasted any time answering those things from the Dem Party, opinion pieces and other left leaning places what would I get from wasting the time?
They won't answer these questions. I point out their hypocrisy daily and they either ignore it or attack the messenger. Great examples, good luck getting through to them though.
I know that it goes in one ear and out the other...because theire is nothing in between to stop it?
How can anyone support the lying hypocritical Republican party?
Because the alternative is MUCH worse. As we are finding out. All the abuses and corruption of the Republicans, with total economic shut-down on top.
As for me, I support the Libertarian Party and hope that the patriots are ready to create enclaves of freedom when the chaos in the streets finally starts. Half the population may be starving before that happens, but that won't take long the way Washington is going.
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