More Republican Hypocrisy

A year or two ago, I got into a jag wherein I was posting just about every story of hypocritical behavior by family-values Republicans that I could find. There were so many, it got rather boring so I stopped hunting the stories down. But I just ran across another good one and I'll post it for old-times sake...

Georgia's Republican House Speaker Glenn Richardson resigned today, a few days after his ex-wife in a television interview said she knew for a fact that the conservative solon had conducted an extramarital affair with a utilities lobbyist even as he championed legislation highly beneficial to the lobbyist's employer. What made this charge political dynamite is that House Democrats had filed an ethics complaint against Richardson in 2007 making that exact charge, which was briskly dismissed by Republicans.

From The New Republic - click the link to read more.
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