Two brief blog postings highlight the anti-worker, hypocritical face of the Republican Party.

It's enough to make you vomit.

From Think Progress:  "Missouri farmer David Jungerman has raised the hackles of local residents with a politically-charged sign he’s placed on his “45-foot-long, semi-truck box trailer” on his farm. The trailer reads: “Are you a Producer or Parasite Democrats – Party of the Parasites.” Now, the Kansas City Star reveals that Jungerman has been the recipient of over a million dollars of federal farm subsidies since 1995...

"Trying to defend himself, Jungerman told the press, “That’s just my money coming back to me. I pay a lot in taxes. I’m not a parasite.” He also said that the sign is aimed at national Democrats, not local Democrats, many of whom are “are old-fashioned Harry Truman Democrats,” who Jungerman says are “more conservative than many Republicans.” For the record, Harry Truman campaigned on establishing a single-payer health care system and famously vetoed tax cuts, making him much more progressive than many of today’s Democrats."

A deceitful bastard as is the next example also from Think Progress:

"Rick Scott, a disgraced hospital scam artist who led a dishonest crusade against health care reform, is currently the frontrunner in Florida’s Republican gubernatorial primary. In his campaign, he has vilified last year’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act......

However, "....one of Scott’s companies “boasted of winning” millions in stimulus money

"....after receiving the stimulus money, the value of Scott’s holdings increased by $4 million” as the company’s stock price tripled.

"Scott is, of course, only the latest conservative politician to join the rich tradition of stimulus hypocrisy, as ThinkProgress has extensively documented. This March, Gov. Charlie Crist (I-FL), whose office Scott is seeking, assailed his fellow governors who “may have rather loudly condemned the stimulus money” while still “quietly accepting it.”

By the way, one of Scott's former companies, HCA, paid the largest fine in US history $631 million for defrauding the government, submitting false claims to Medicare and other federal health programs.  (Scott resigned during investigations of his hospitals.) HCA was also former Senator Bill Frist's family business, where he got his great wealth thanks to the massive criminal fraud by that family business.

Whatever votes this front runner in the Florida GOP gubernatorial primary proves that you can fool some fools all of the time.