“If there is one thing that is bipartisan in Washington, it is brazen hypocrisy.”

—  Thomas Sowell

"Supreme Hypocrisy" http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/03/29/supreme-hypocrisy-n2139969, 29 March 2016
2010s

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