Republican Party

4 Ways Republicans Are Full of Shit

Jason Keisling and J.D. Tuccille | 10.16.2014 2:30 PM

It's awfully tough to narrow these down to just four, so feel free to list more ways the Republicans are full of shit in the comments. And since we're equal opportunity offenders, check out a list of 4 ways the Democrats are full of shit.

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Spending

• "Rand Paul Is Right: Carter Was Thriftier Than Reagan"
• "Tax Collectors for the Warfare State"
• "Mike Lee: End the Ex-Im Bank Because of Crony Capitalism! But Don't Cut Military Spending"
• "Karl Rove Group Attacks Democrats—For Wanting to Cut Entitlements"
• "This Is Why It's So Hard To Cut Medicare"

Dependency

• "Bipartisan Corporate Welfare"
• "Tommy Thompson: Creature of the Corporate State"
• "Does Defense Spending Stimulate Anything Other than Military Contractors' Bank Accounts?"
• "Karl Rove Group Attacks Democrats—For Wanting to Cut Entitlements"
• "This Is Why It's So Hard To Cut Medicare"

Federalism

• "Pot, Poker, and Prohibitionism"
• "Anti-Pot Prejudice vs. Federalism"
• "Fair-Weather Federalists"
• "Yes, the 2012 GOP Platform is For 'vigorously enforced' Laws Against Pornography and Obscenity"

Limited Government

• "Mitt Romney Is Out of Sync With the Small Government Movement"
• "Eric Cantor Loss: One Down, 200 More Small-Government Fakers to Go"
• "3 Signs The Republicans Aren't Serious About Cutting The Size & Scope of Government When They Get Back in Office"
• "Lindsey Graham Urges Colleagues to Support Targeted Killing, Protect Obama From 'Libertarians and the Left'"

Jason Keisling is a visual content fellow at Reason.

J.D. Tuccille is a contributing editor at Reason.

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