More DeMint/Heritage hypocrisy

When you get a right-wing gasbag like Sen. Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) together with an America-hating right-wing think tank like the Heritage Foundation, hilarity and hypocrisy are both likely outcomes.

Congressional Republicans are weird. They're actually proud of their unanimous opposition to President Obama's economic stimulus efforts. (All 177 House Republicans voted against the stimulus bill.) Republicans claim their stance is motivated by a desire for smaller government.

Smaller government? This is the same party that gave us the Patriot Act, the War on Drugs, work-for-less laws, the failed bailout, and the federal law that requires libraries to censor web terminals - and they're claiming they're for small government?

DeMint appeared at a Hitlerage Foundation event and boasted, "How about those House Republicans?" The Washington Post described DeMint as a "vocal small-government advocate" - but what DeMint says doesn't always jibe with what he does.

Jim DeMint is the extremist scoundrel who wanted to punish the city of Berkeley, California, because of the city's antiwar politics. If DeMint is small government, then I'm Steve Forbes.

The Heritage Foundation isn't exactly the small government champion it claims to be either. In its amazing top 40 countdown of the world's freest nations, Singapore usually ranks around #2 - ahead of the United States.

Singapore is an island city-state that has had one of the most oppressive regimes on the globe. This is the government that outlawed bubble gum, imposed flogging for even minor violations of the law, banished due process from its judicial system, and kicked human rights organizations like Amnesty International out of the country.

That's the Heritage Foundation's idea of "freedom." You can't make this shit up, people.

No wonder Jim DeMint likes that little club. They're as uproariously hypocritical as he is.

(Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/29/AR2009012904329.html)