Do they know how stupid they look when they are caught in their hypocrisies?

And do middle-income and lower-income idiots who vote for Republicans have any knowledge of the incapacity of these leaders to hold a thought for more than 3 minutes at a time? Jesus H Christ - I can't stand it some days!

GOPer Who'd Only Lower Flags For Americans Was OK With Pope Tributes (Click on this heading to read more)

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TOM KLUDT – DECEMBER 12, 2013, 7:27 AM EST2473

The Republican congressman who thinks the American flag should only be lowered to honor U.S. citizens didn't appear to have any qualms with the wave of tributes for a deceased pontiff.

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) said last week that he objected to lowering the flag to honor late South African President Nelson Mandela, a tribute the congressman said "should be for mourning Americans and not for foreign leaders."

The last time flags were flown at half-staff to honor a foreign dignitary came in 2005, when former President George W. Bush issued the order to memorialize Pope John Paul II.

Sensenbrenner issued an official statement mourning the pope on the day he died, a gesture the congressman didn't do for Mandela. 

And as the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel noted, Sensenbrenner lobbied for a resolution in 2003 pushing Bush to award Pope John Paul II the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. The resolution passed the House, but failed in the Senate.