July 19, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
Pharisees on the Potomac
By MAUREEN DOWD
Like cats that have lost their whiskers, the Republicans seem off balance now that they have lost their talent for hypocrisy.
They are still practicing the ancient political art of Tartuffery, of course, just without their former aplomb.
Who can forget the glory years, when the Gipper invoked God but never went to church? When Arlen Specter accused Anita Hill of perjury to distract from Clarence Thomas’s false witness? When Newt Gingrich and other conservatives indulged in affairs with young Washington peaches as they pushed to impeach Bill Clinton?
No one had more flair than W. and Cheney, crowing about making us safe as they made the world more dangerous, and bragging about fiscal restraint while they spent us into oblivion.
Now when Republicans get caught flouting the principles they dictate, they are not able to practice hypocrisy with such impunity.--more--
New York TimesI particularly enjoyed Ms. Dowd's final observation:
Judge Sotomayor kept her feelings in check, while her white male Republican interrogators dissolved into whining about wanting to keep their guns and nunchakus and wishing they could get back some sway over what women do with their bodies.
If they are so interested in women’s bodies, maybe they should just move to C Street. :rofl:
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