Once again, shameless Republican hypocrisy

The hypocrite and the nominee

This time, blatant Republican double standard hypocrisy relates to Biden's Supreme Court nominee. Given McConnell's lies and hypocrisy about Supreme Court nominations and nominees, one would reasonably think he would keep his mouth shut. One would be wrong. The Washington Post writes in an opinion piece:

It’s a case of the pot calling the kettle dark.

Last week, on the very day President Biden announced his nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) issued a statement expressing his earnest concern that “Judge Jackson was the favored choice of far-left dark-money groups.”

On Tuesday, McConnell repeated on the Senate floor that he is “troubled” by “the intensity of Judge Jackson’s far-left dark-money fan club.”

Even for McConnell, a five-time Olympic gold medalist in hypocrisy, this was special.

There is perhaps no human being more responsible for the tsunami of unlimited, unregulated “dark” money that has corrupted and consumed American politics than Addison Mitchell McConnell III. Nobody worked harder to thwart campaign finance limits and to block the disclosure of contributors’ names. One Nation, the dark-money group McConnell effectively controls with his former chief of staff at the helm, raised more than $172 million in 2020, according to a tax return obtained by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. (emphasis added)

Good old Addison Mitchell McConnell III. He is the Olympic Champion of elite Republican hypocrisy and shamelessness. Of course, it may be the case that McConnell is lying when he says the nominee is the choice of far-left dark-money groups. Maybe the groups he despises and wants to cancel are moderate left or centrist. Is he just trying to cancel the free speech rights of far-left dark-money groups that the Republican Supreme Court unleashed in its 2010 Citizens United decision? Did the Republican Party court intend to unleash only far-right dark-money groups while stifling the far-left?

So many questions about Republicans and their policies and rhetoric. So many Republican lies in response. I am “troubled.”