It’s been awhile since I’ve charged up this website for political ranting, but we can’t have fun with Physics and Math in every post, now can we? If science is supposed to have a liberal bias, I might as well make my real life liberal-bias clear in a few posts ever so often.

The sad thing is that this post practically writes itself. In the recent week, the conservatives have made ranting easy for me. Normally I don’t get too mad at the Grand Old Party — I just call them out when they kill off independent thought, accuse Obama of wanting to kill off senior citizens, thinking 60 senators = total control, and being Sarah Palin.

The reason I’m ranting today is because high profile Republican officials are lying through their teeth. Well I guess that’s not new. But this time, they’re doing it so horribly, sadly, and self-contradictory, that they insult all of America.

Michael Steele

For example, take Michael Steele. He’s the chairman of the Republican National Committee — the body that leads the entire Republican Party.

The Lie:

The problem that we have with this president is we don’t know him. He was not vetted, folks… He was not vetted, because the press fell in love with the black man running for the office.
– Michael Steele

The Truth:

In this quote, Steele is accusing Obama of getting elected because of the colour of his skin — which is interesting, considering that Steele, himself an African American, had battled similar allegations that his position as head of the RNC was because of the colour of his skin.

Apparently Steele forgot that President Obama actually won a national election, meaning that he required the vote of a lot of people who thought — as Steele put it — “We can continue to ride around in our limousines and feel so lucky to live in an America with a black president.”

The Bold Contradiction:

In 2006, Steele ran for lieutenant governor of Maryland. A Baltimore Sun editorial bashed his qualifications, saying that he brought “little to the team but the color of his skin” — a similar complaint to what Steele is now making about Obama.

Except Steele bashed this complaint against him as “pure ignorance”:

QUESTION: “Mr. Ehrlich’s running mate, state GOP chairman Michael Steele, brings little to the team but the color of his skin.” Baltimore Sun. … What was your reaction when you read that?

STEELE: Ignorant. It was just pure ignorance. It’s something I had to put up with countless times. … But it was, again, showing a high level of ignorance — ignorance and racism. And call it for what it is. The Baltimore Sun is the Baltimore Sun. I don’t deal with the newspaper. I have nothing to say to the editorial board or –- I barely speak to its reporters, because this is a newspaper that, in my view, has some issues it needs to work out with respect to race.

Michael Steele, Again

Michael Steele has been berated by other Republicans for “not staying on message”. Perhaps one of the times Steele wasn’t “on message” was when he gave this lie, as Steele spoke about his job as head of the RNC in a radio interview with Dennis Miller:

The Lie:

I mean, I didn’t ask for, I didn’t seek this job, I didn’t ask for it. It wasn’t part of my, you know, charted course in life to wind up as chairman of the RNC.
– MIchael Steele

The Truth:

Micheal Steele sure didn’t want the job as chairman… I mean all he did was decide to run for chariman of the RNC, announce his candidacy, run his campaign, win the election against five other candidates in a series of six run-off elections, make a killer acceptance speech with quotes such as “this is awesome” and “God bless our party”. Sure sounds like he hates the job.

The Bold Contradiction:

I want the gig.
– Steele to Sean Hannity, on Hannity & Colmes, announcing his candidacy.

You can even see it on video:

Rudy Giuliani

I saved the best and most rant-worthy for last. Here’s a killer quote from our 9/11-hero mayor, Rudy:

The Lie:

What he [Obama] should be doing is following the right things that Bush did — one of the right things he did was treat this as a war on terror. We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We’ve had one under Obama.
– Rudy Giuliani, in an interview on ABC News, apparently forgetting one big day.

The Truth:

Right. Because George W. Bush is such an expert on avoiding terrorist attacks that there were no domestic attacks under Bush.

During Bush’s presidency, we certainly didn’t have any anthrax attacks scaring the heck out of people, making them as afraid of their mail as we’re afraid of Swine Flu. The attack that… you know… killed five people.

During Bush’s presidency, we definitely didn’t have Richard Reid, a man who attempted to detonate a bomb in his shoe, with hopes of taking down American Airlines Flight 63 and all the people on board.

And during Bush’s presidency, we definitely didn’t have — oh, I don’t know, maybe frigging September 11th, the day that we should never forget — a day promoted by some guy who was Mayor of New York during the time of the terrorist attack and built his career off of it… even launching a presidential bid off of September 11th with ads like these:

…If only I could figure out who that man in that commercial is? Hmm… Is it… I don’t know… Rudy Giuliani?! The “Mr. 9/11″… The guy who constructs all his sentences with “a noun, a verb, and 9/11″. Even he forgot what he said we should Never Forget?

The Bold Contradiction:

The real bold contradiction was between Giuliani’s 9/11-based career and his searingly partisan quote, but look at how Giuliani attempted to handle the media outrage against his quote:

I usually say, “We had no major domestic attacks under President Bush since September 11“. I did omit the words, “since September 11,” and I apologize for that. I do remember September 11. In fact, Wolf, I remember it every single day and usually, frequently during the day.
– Giuliani to Wolf Blitzer, in a CNN interview

Oh, ok. “since September 11″. It’s a simple slip of the tongue that could happen to anyone… even the guy who has uttered 9/11 more than any other Republican presidential candidate.

So let’s go with “We had no major domestic attacks under President Bush since September 11.” The Anthrax attacks happened one month later. How does Mr. 9/11 explain that one away?

The anthrax attacks [of 2001] don’t count, because they never proven to be done in the name of Islamic terrorism.

Ohhhhh… What Rudy Giuliani meant was that “We had no major Islamic domestic attacks under President Bush since September 11” — the Islamic attack on Obama’s watch being the Fort Hood shooting. You know, because the Christmas Underpants Guy, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab… wasn’t Islamic.

So now we know what Giuliani is talking about, especially when he leaves us with this gem about the shooter:

He was clearly under the influence of Islamic terrorism.

…as if Islamic terrorism was some sort of addictive drug. But still? What about Mr. Shoe Bomb Guy, Richard Reid? That guy was an Islamic fundamentalist from the United Kingdom, and self-proclaimed Al Qaeda operative! Why doesn’t his attack count? What do you have to say about that, Giuli?

I believe that six days [that Bush was criticized for having waited before responding to Richard Reid's attack] was before the September 11 attack.
– Rudy Giuliani to Larry King

Here, have a hard-hitting Youtube video:

Right. The December 22, 2001 shoe bombing attack was before the September 11, 2001 Twin Towers attack.

So let’s revise Rudy’s statement that “We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We’ve had one under Obama.” to “We had no major Islamic domestic attacks under Bush after September 11, only using time travel once to ignore a certain major attack that’s inconvenient to my argument. We’ve had one under Obama.”

And that’s why I make fun of the Republicans who deserve it. Because remember, as Stephen Colbert once noted — “reality has a well-known liberal bias”.

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