WHY WEARING a baseball cap backwards is dumb. Ah, yes, it is, but on the bright side, it allows you to identify them much more quickly.

WHITE HOUSE blasts Ryan budget proposal. So where is their counterproposal?

SO CAN I OPT OUT? Sure, you can opt out of receiving ... you just can't opt out of paying.

SIMPLY ORWELLIAN: Center for American Progress blogger Matt Yglesias on why Ryan's Medicare reforms wouldn’t affect those 55 and older:

The idea here is that today’s old people—a very white group that’s also hostile to gay rights, and thus sort of predisposed to like conservative politicians—will also get to benefit from an extremely generous single-payer health care system. But younger people—a less white group that’s friendly to gay rights and thus predisposed to skepticism about conservative politicians—will get to pay the high taxes to finance old people’s generous single-payer health care system, but then we won’t get to benefit from it. This is in part in order to clear headroom in the budget so as to make gigantic tax cuts for rich people affordable.

Yglesias' youth and inexperience show. Plans for reforming entitlements exempt those at or near retirement because "older Americans have built their lives around the existing system and don't have the opportunity to adjust to changes, whereas younger workers do." I would add that they will also not live to benefit from the improvements either.

PROMISES KEPT, and those to expect again.

MORE: Change - it's worth waiting for.

BUT IT’S your wealth and power she’s dividing, not hers.

AND THE ‘FRAUD MARGIN’ always seems to favor Democrats. Imagine that.

SO QUIT YOUR JOB and let Uncle Sam and Aunt Nanny take care of you.

PELOSI: Republican budget will force seniors into starvation.

Well, I could stand to lose a few pounds.

HOPE ISN”T HIRING

Another great Obama campaign ad.

NEW DNC CHAIR: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. One of the better comments: “A skull that makes vacuum bottles jealous paired with a voice that makes chalk and chalkboards jealous.”

BUT ... BUT THE RULES DON’T APPLY TO US - do they?

THIS MAY BE A SURPRISE to most politicians. Demography and mathematics can’t be legislated.

MORE REASON FOR A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN: U.S. To Hit Debt Ceiling By May 16.

RADIATION READINGS at crippled Japan nuclear plant millions of times higher than legal limit. Umm, nuclear radiation obeys the laws of physics, not the laws of men.

BREAKING RANKS: the times, they are a'changin. The political establishment on both sides should pay attention if they want to remain in Congress.

IT'S THE TRILLIONS, STUPID! "President Obama and other liberal leaders in Washington don’t realize that if the government shuts down because an agreement cannot be reached it is they who will be blamed. No one will blame conservatives and Tea Party members who are trying to get the country’s fiscal house in order."

WELL, YEAH. The parody is the more accurate campaign ad.

SO SHUT IT DOWN and see if anyone notices.

SARAH PALIN on Obama’s energy policy: “stall, baby, stall.”

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