So much hypocrisy, so little time

Excuse me, but if you campaign on a platform form of ethics reform, shouldn't you at least have some ethics?

If you run on a platform of taking out the trash in Montgomery, shouldn't your own damn house be clean?

If you hold candidates and and elected officials to the highest ethical and moral standards shouldn't you hold yourself to those same standards?

If you uphold the principle that All men/women are created equal and are entitled to equal rights how do you justify discrimination?

Consider this a righteous Redeye Rant because I am sick and tired of all the double talk and back talk. The cats and other critters over at Left in Alabama seem shocked the Alabama gop used ethics/reform and anti corruption as a campaign slogan.

With Governor Riley's ethics reform proposals, the Republican Wrecking Crew is at it again and they are making yet another effort to Defund the Left by wrecking the Democratic Party by starving its constituent movements or shutting down the avenues by which its leaders receive contributions.
Now, we have the outlines of Governor Riley's ethics reform package. Two key proposals of Governor Bob Riley's ethics reform package are nothing more than a blatant attempt to defund the Left and the AEA, a key interest group within the Alabama Democratic Party. Those are the proposals to prohibit AEA from collecting dues by payroll deduction and the ban on so-called "double dipping," i.e., so as to prohibit a member of the Alabama Legislature from holding another government job including public school jobs. Both of these proposals have already passed in a Senate committee.

I tried to tell them this was about putting Dr. Joe Reed in his place, but did they listen? Noooo. According to them Joe Reed is the cause of all of Alabama's ills. He's the reason the Alabama legislature turned from blue to blood red. Never mind that Joe Reed wasn't the head of the Alabama Democratic Party and has never been the head of the Democratic Party. Never mind that Joe Reed has spent his life fighting for the rights of the disenfranchised. Never mind Joe Reed was the duly elected leader of the Alabama Education Association. Never mind Joe Reed was not afraid to speak truth to power. Never mind all of those things. Joe Reed had to be put in his place once and for all because it was time for some *ahem* new leadership.

By new leadership I suppose they mean someone who will be the opposite of Joe Reed. Well are you happy with your "new leadership" now? Are you happy the good guys have been replaced by the bad guys? Any teacher who voted for the Alabama gop will get what they deserve. They bit of their nose to spite their face. But don't worry, the Alabama Democratic Party, Dr. Joe Reed and Dr. Paul Hubbert will save you, because that's the kind of organization/people they are. They fight for what is right.

''This is about power,'' said Sen. Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro. ''This is about a group that has not had power for 136 years. These are mechanisms by which they will be able to maintain power in this august body.''
Voters on Nov. 2 broke more than a century of Democratic control of the Legislature. Republicans now run both the House and Senate.
Sen. Roger Bedford, D-Russellville, said the bill "rises to the top of petty politics.'' He said Riley pushed for the bill to punish AEA and ASEA because they didn't support his favorite candidate for governor, Bradley Byrne. Byrne lost the Republican primary to Gov.-elect Robert Bentley.

wargolem has one of the best explanations of the rank gop hypocrisy and what it means for teachers, strike that, liberals in Alabama.

As for me i personally know what i call it - Hypocrisy 101. This particular person said of his opponent during the election "Well all he did was go down there to montgomery and vote himself a raise." Guess what? All you did was go down there and the first thing you did was to screw over the teachers and they tend to have a long memory.

Redeye Rant over and out...for now.