Priorities
The Iowa State Lege began a long debate over collective bargaining rights for teachers.
Republican State Representative Ross Paustian takes his job very seriously.
And his hoochy-koochy.
I am told that it’s a gag book being passed around the house floor and that the pages are empty. It sure is taking him a long time and a lot of reading to get the joke.
Thanks to Brian for the heads up.
Yay iowa. We’re number one or something! Like asking how to occupy wingnuts for 24 hours and then telling them to check back tomorrow for the answer.
1Paustian appears perturbed. Why? Republicans don’t approve of sex before sixty, so why does he think he has anything but empty pages coming after 60?
Same book is circulating in the US Congress with various titles: Ryan Budget, Immigration Reform, and Fixing the ACA.
2I can easily believe that for guys like this sex after 60 consists of a lot of emptiness.
3So every page is blank. And Paustian took time to read it from cover to cover. Got it! No really I do.
4Actually, there is a comic book hidden inside it. Some of these guys need all the time they can get to parse the damn thing, let alone figure it out!
5Micr, given his literacy level, Paustian rose to the challenge.
maggie, anything with comics or any form of humor would be an AP class to Republicans.
6I agree, either a comic book inside, or maybe he fell asleep reading it.
7When it’s words…. and not just pictures….
sometimes it takes some folks longer…. especially if it requires some thinking.
Heck, I thought men only needed two words on “Sex After 60”.
8Viagra….. and/or Cialis. ???
Probably got em a woodie on, under the desk!
9Hide the children, the old and infirmed, here’s a up close photo of Ross!
10http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/iowa-lawmaker-reads-sex-sixty-debate/story?id=29736752
Fred Farklestone, thanks for the laughs! From the comments section: “the embraceable ewe”
11Fred, your link says he said he “knew how we were going to vote on amendments,” which is to say he is a good publican and is going to vote the party line, regardless how it will affect his constituents. No need to waste your time listening to the proceedings when your mind has already been made up for you.
12Fortunately for iowa(and the rest of ‘murrica) the iowa Senate has a Democrat majority(2 votes) and any nonsense perpetrated by the wingnut run house has to get through Dems.
13He certainly spent more time on the book than he did buying his “hair”.
14@montag: I understand he and George Will have a timeshare on the same rug.
15What sex comes after sixty?
Nine.
16Send this guy more books. The more time he spends reading, the less he’ll be legislating.
17daChipster, that bad pun earns you the daily “the embraceable ewe” award. J/K
However, we might give some consideration to bestowing the award on GOP dumb ass ideas of the day. Albeit, at the rate they are squawking st00pid, it could become an hourly award.
18Is he looking at the pictures?
19There are a couple of blank books with that title, but there are some real ones, too. Just take a peek at Amazon: http://smile.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=sex+after+sixty
This one actually seemed like a book to help the newly single learn to mix again: http://smile.amazon.com/Sex-After-60-Hattie-Herman-ebook/dp/B009UION06
20@PKM
21Shades of An Officer and a Gentleman and the inimitable GySgt Foley and of course every USMC drill instructor since dirt…
“A ewe is a female sheep. Is that what you think I am, boy?”
Miemaw you forgot bloodpressure and no.
22Micr, so many great movie lines, so little time. The classic Jack Nicholson “You can’t handle the truth!” is a generic good cover for most situations Republican.
However, placing “ewe” and Loopy Louie is the same sentence might run us afoul of Mama.
23Teachers won collective bargaining rights in PA in 1968.
24Just goes to show how far back we’ve come and no amount of blank books on sex justifies that.
@PKM
25I LOVE little Jack in that film. Great writing. “Stand a post” indeed.
There’s also “Responsibility in Perry’s Texas” … blank.
26I find it hard to have sex in a 35 mile an hour zone much less sixty.
27Miemaw – re Cialis … they use separate bathtubs.
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