Tales of Republican Hypocrisy - Today's Edition

This is a new periodic feature I'm adding to my blog to highlight the bald hypocrisy that has become a mainstay of the modern Republican Party and soured our national debate. I could probably add a new one every day, but that would probably bore me to death. Personally, I would be quite content to round of the whole bunch of liars, thieves, hypocrites, birthers, racists, and other right-wing scoundrels and send them all to Texas. Then build a very big wall around the place and let them do whatever they want in the name of freedom on their side of the wall.

Today's right-wing nutcase - Rep. Kevin Brady, T-Texas. See my point?

Protesters who attended Saturday’s Tea Party rally in Washington to protest big government are unhappy with the level of service provided by DC's government subsidized subway system (already the irony becomes so appealing).

Rep. Kevin Brady asked for an explanation of why the government-run subway system didn’t adequately prepare for this past weekend’s rally - which took place to protest government spending and expanded government services! So, they were unhappy that they didn't get what they don't want. Seems simple to me.

“These individuals came all the way from Southeast Texas to protest the excessive spending and growing government intrusion by the 111th Congress and the new Obama administration,” Brady wrote (Congressman, do you know what you are saying here? Do you at least see the - well, irony?) Guess not. He went on “these participants, whose tax dollars were used to create and maintain this public transit system, were frustrated and disappointed that our nation’s capital did not make a great effort to simply provide a basic level of transit for them.”

Brady wrote on Twitter “METRO did not prepare for Tea Party March! More stories. People couldn’t get on, missed start of march. I will demand answers from Metro.”

Brady said in his letter to Metro that overcrowding forced an 80-year-old woman and elderly veterans in wheelchairs to pay for cabs (not run by the government, Congressman).

How has this champion of public transportation services voted in the past, you might ask? Surely he voted "yes" on the 2009 stimulus bill, which provided some millions for the DC Metro?

He voted "no."

In July, a Transportation and HUD appropriations bill, came up for a vote. It included $150 million for emergency maintenance funding for the DC Metro. Can you possibly guess how Rep. Brady voted? Need we look at his past votes on such matters?

Congressman, I'd give you the Worst person in the World award, but Keith Olbermann already has that honor. But by any measure of sanity and reason, you are a stupid, wretched hypocrite!