That’s because conservatives don’t have a sense of irony. They see none of their own hypocrisy, nor do most feel they need to obey the same rules they so love to impose on us. It’s no accident that “IOKIYAR” and “Do as I say, not as I do” are so often applied to conservatives rather than liberals..

Good morning, pups. Today we’ve got Brooks, Cohen and Friedman. Bobo thinks he may have figured out one reason why Money Boo Boo lost. Y’all ain’t gittin’ hitched like y’all should. In “The Age of Possibility” he babbles that the world is entering a post-familial age. He opines that supple minds will be needed to recognize and navigate the new normal. He informs us that married people, including married women, voted for Mittens. Citation? He don’t need no stinkin’ citation… And it may not have dawned on him that folks may not be crankin’ out them babbies because they don’t want their children to live in the world Money Boo Boo and the rest of the 1% have created for us. In “Generals in Their Own Web” Mr. Cohen says out-of-control surveillance turns up dalliances that are not the real scandal. Prof. Krugman, in “Life, Death and Deficits,” says raising the retirement age on Social Security and Medicare would be a harsh blow to Americans in the bottom half of the income distribution. This is true, but we’ll most likely be eating cat food pretty soon.

Here they are.

I also have a bonus post with links to Matt Taibbi’s masterful take-down of The Moustache of Wisdom’s Syria column. One of the winners of his contest is UVP, the UncertaintyVicePrincipal who is one of our own firepups.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got waffles with warm maple syrup for breakfast. It’s been chilly, gray and rainy here for the past few days, with more of the same today. This is the weather we used to get all February but it seems to be coming earlier in the year now. Got to dash — I’m going to have to leave a bit early today. Have a great day.

I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning. Perhaps the GOP will primary him…next time.

The 4th district voters ought to be ashamed of themselves. If you’re going to vote based on social issues, they least you can do is vote for somebody who applies those same social issues to himself.

Anti-abortion only applies when it’s convenient, it would seem.

Boxturtle (You’d think the fellow’s church would be speaking out at least!)

Thanks, attaturk, but you’re ignoring the possibility that 4th District concerns are that too much government control will result from all being on the dole. Such things mandate voting wingnuts in, no matter what small failings they have as human … oh, sorry.

Thanks, Marion, out of control surveillance – really? I thought you were only worried about those phone taps if you were doing something wrong.

Bobo conveniently ignores the fact that a good chunk of his sort of demography wants to secede from the Union. Talk about being enshrouded in commitments.

He informs us that married people, including married women, voted for Mittens.

That can be easily mathematically disproved in almost all of the close swing states and in all of the blue states. Guess he don’t need any stinkin’ arithmetic either.

raising the retirement age on Social Security and Medicare would be a harsh blow to Americans

Especially since we really need to LOWER the retirement age, get some of the old folks out of the workforce and open up the remaining jobs to the young. We gotta accept the fact that a lot of the jobs Bain and other moved overseas aren’t coming back.

Boxturtle (I’d lower the age for full benefits to no more than 60)

Good morning all. Had a link on twitter yesterday to letter writen by a white, married, father, post-grad degreed business owner, upper-middle-class guy doing a super takedown of the GOP and all their bufoonery. Of course i can’t find it now.

Basically he said, you asshole claim I’m your base but you represent absolutely nothing that me and my family need or want. Also, too, you are just plain nasty and mean. It was a wonderful piece and if i find it I will put up a link.

Hey, if it’s good for business, it’s good for America! And if your job went overseas, well it’s your own fault for not having the good sense to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and be born to wealthy parents.

If you find it, please bookmark it so I can read it later. I love take downs like that.

Responsible parents would be especially unhappy with the outsourcing of jobs and the proliferations of wars. Of course, a healthy economy, which only living wages and regulations on financial Creators of chaos will produce, is what we need for general living and even business to prosper.

Anymore, EVERYBODY who speaks out against the governments actions is doing something wrong. Ask Occupy.

Boxturtle (We should all worry. Whatever happened to the 1st & 4th amendments?)

We gotta accept the fact that a lot of the jobs Bain and other moved overseas aren’t coming back.

Why? Why the hell do we have to accept that? Sorry. Calling bullshit on that one.

You are correct about lowering the retirement age. Pay for it by obliterating the cap and calling income, income irrespective it’s origin.

Disposable income is necessary for business, not that the wingnuts have the good sense to realize they’re eating their own tail.

See what I can do.

Off to get ready now.

(going to the brand spanking new race track to see the 1st ever F1 Grand Prix in Austin TX)

Expenses of shipping manufactured goods is actually having some of this effect.

Throw confetti for us all, or whatever you do at race tracks. Beer, maybe.

You are correct about lowering the retirement age. Pay for it by obliterating the cap and calling income, income irrespective it’s origin.

Spot on. Back when we were sane, it was axiomatic that the wealthy should have to give back to the society that made them so comfortable. I find it ugly and disturbing that our current financial policy is based on servicing peoples’ greed. Isn’t that one of the “deadly sins”?

My job is dissolving in 8 working days. It’s being sliced and diced and parceled out to other people…

On edit — and of course those folks will NOT be getting any more money for doing more work.

Check the posts from yesterday, I know I found a link to that somewhere around here and read it. An excellent takedown, if the GOP has any brains they’ll make everybody running for re-election read and understand it.

Boxturtle (More likely, they’ll make all the backsliders re-sign Norquists no tax pledge)

Yeah, who knows what goes on at racetracks? Maybe more throwing up than throwing confetti.

Gotta go to work.

Ouch. That sucks. Sorry Marion… :(

mojoe talking about their new hero Jindal. never mind education in LA. and women’s rights. he’d do well to read up on the dead woman in Ireland.

try this…

http://www.ericgarland.co/2012/11/09/letter-to-a-future-republican-strategist-regarding-white-people/

Having sex w/ patients is a slam dunk lawsuit, usually settled out of court and VERY expensive. Being an MD (hopefully) means you have expertise in a specialty…not everything.

I worked for a law firm in a smaller town some years ago. All the top dog partners were Country Club Republicans, but many of them were big-time Christians, too. They even had Bible Study at work (not mandatory), which tred a close line to being illegal.

That said, many of these partners made a HUGE DEAL about burning their American Bar Assoc membership cards about 18 or 19 years ago when the ABA made some kind of statement supporting Roe v. Wade. It was obnoxious, but here’s the rub: these guys were bigger horn-dogs than Bubba Clinton (who they loathed).

These guys ALL fooled around – it was a small town, so everyone knew. Often fooled around with secretaries & paralegals at work (again, pushing the legality boundaries). AND finally: MANY of them had gotten some woman pregnant who was not their wife (of course they were ALL married), and AND of course, these women had *abortions.* One secretary actually got pregnant to 2 different attorneys (at different times, of course) and both times had an abortion.

All very well known. Nothing particularly secret about it. One guy actually was boinking his secretary during the day in his car in a pretty public place, and many people saw it happening (including yours truly, who really didn’t want to know… but there it was: very obvious).

So when I say: IOKIYAR – I have LOADS of direct personal experience of their lying hypocrisy. I have a ton of other stories along such lines, including having friends who’ve worked at Planned Parenthood clinics where abortion services are provided. Numerous stories about the Haters who “protest” out front, and then one day are sneaking in the back door with their adulterous girl friend to make sure that she gets an abortion.

It’s endless. To say how aggravating this is, is putting it mildly.

These people have no shame; don’t give a sh*t how much they lie, cheat, steal & Hate. It is what it is. If they have the (R) next to their name: Anything Goes! And, of course: IOKIYAR.