# Bricker, Here Are A Couple Of Bozos Who Are Right Up Your Alley **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 21, 2013, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973 "2013-05-21T23:55:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973/1 "2013-05-21T23:55:24Z")
**Bricker** , you know how you always get peeved when posters here at the SDMB say someone should be thrown in jail, and you get all nitpicky about “what statute do you think they broke? what’s your evidence that they violated it?” Then you should be pretty pissed at [these guys](http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/jindal-says-irs-officials-should-go-to-jail?ref=fpb). Because they’re not just a coupla guys on a message board. One’s governor of Louisiana, and the other’s Speaker of the House of Representatives. If we ought to know better, then these guys ought to know _way_ better. In spades. Doubled, redoubled, raised to slam, and doubled and redoubled again. Jindal: > [@](#): > > Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) on Saturday will call for jail time for Internal Revenue Service officials who engaged in improper targeting of conservative organizations. > > “You cannot take the freedom of law-abiding Americans, whether you disagree with them or not, and keep your own freedom,” Jindal will say in a speech at the Virginia Republican convention, according to Politico. “When you do that, you go to jail." Boehner: > [@](#): > > His remarks echo those made earlier this week by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH). > > “My question isn’t about who is going to resign,” Boehner told reporters. “My question is who’s going to jail over this scandal?” Like I said, these are high public officials, whose jobs are writing the laws (Boehner) and executing the laws of the state of Louisiana (Jindal). Their jobs are rather intimately connected with laws. They presumably know a lot more about the laws than do random bozos on a message board. And yet… So, **Bricker** , I hope you’re absolutely incensed with these guys, and wonder what the devil the voters and their party are doing, trusting them with high office, when they fail a test about the law that you think random bozos on a message board ought to pass. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973/2 "2013-05-22T00:04:51Z")
Bricker is living rent-free in your mind. ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973/3 "2013-05-22T00:11:55Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > Bricker is living rent-free in your mind. Done in one. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973/4 "2013-05-22T00:16:21Z")
It hasn’t even been three months since your last pitting of this guy. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973/5 "2013-05-22T00:51:43Z")
What can I say - I saw that story, and thought of **Bricker**. And I’m not so much Pitting him, just that I doubt a thread directed at a particular person in this manner would be welcome in another forum. It’s here by default. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973/6 "2013-05-22T00:53:26Z")
He may have given up on this kick. I think he’s into rabbits now. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973/7 "2013-05-22T01:03:02Z")
Wow. Let’s grab a couple of random bozos who’ve made comments in the press and use them as a springboard to pit someone who has never had anything to do with them. Rent free indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973/8 "2013-05-22T01:03:53Z")
What need for a trial? You’ve convicted him, fair and square! (FWIW, total agreement with the OP. **Bricker** exhibits noisome pedantic rhetorical behavior, dictionary games, sliding between technical language and commonplace language, etc. And he has really bad breath, too.) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973/9 "2013-05-22T01:04:58Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > He may have given up on this kick. I think he’s into rabbits now. Kicking rabbits? ETA: I know, he doesn’t kick rabbits because you haven’t defined “kick” or “rabbit” sufficiently legal-like. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973/10 "2013-05-22T01:13:45Z")
Is the OP suggesting that there’s no potential criminal law that could have been violated here? Or that the complained-of conduct was not violative of those laws? Or that there’s yet to be a trial? If you narrow down the gibbering, I might could have some comment. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973/11 "2013-05-22T01:26:09Z")
Bricker who? ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973/12 "2013-05-22T01:27:54Z")
Bricker’s well documented political leanings aside, you don’t know for a fact that Bricker agrees with their statement wholesale based solely on his political affiliations. Even if he doesn’t grill them the way he grills a “fellow doper” that doesn’t necessarily make him a hypocrite either. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973/13 "2013-05-22T02:33:38Z")
This will not end well. Especially since it didn’t start well. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973/14 "2013-05-22T02:47:18Z")
And the middle positively sucks. Jesus, Firefly, get a fucking life. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973/15 "2013-05-22T05:21:27Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > It hasn’t even been three months since your last pitting of this guy. Isn’t it about time you topically pit an Egyptian Pharaoh? ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973/16 "2013-05-22T10:19:14Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Isn’t it about time you topically pit an Egyptian Pharaoh? Does it look like it? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973/17 "2013-05-22T12:27:37Z")
Hm, for some reason I thought this was going to be about our recent influx (well, mini-influx) of “will Benghazi/IRS destroy the Democrats? Will it? Huh? Huh? I’m just asking _questions_ here” posters, which I’d hope would put to rest future whining about how conservatives are hunted for sport on this board, i.e. these clowns are criticized and challenged but for the most part tolerated, so quit playing the victim card, already. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973/18 "2013-05-22T12:50:37Z")
**RTFirefly** , I’m often on your side when you and **Bricker** go at it. And yeah, he does do that thing you’re complaining about. But this is pretty weak stuff to go after Bricker with. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973/19 "2013-05-22T12:54:48Z")
Politicians regularly assume crime and call for people to go to jail. Liz Warren, someone who should know better being a law professor and all, has called for bankers to go to jail. I guess she means as a class? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973/20 "2013-05-22T12:55:41Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > **RTFirefly** , I’m often on your side when you and **Bricker** go at it. And yeah, he does do that thing you’re complaining about. But this is pretty weak stuff to go after Bricker with. I think the weakness is part of the point. Said poster whose name I will not repeat would sometimes say “hey, those random other people over there, why aren’t you complaining about them? Doesn’t that make you a hypocrite?” So RT doing the same thing is part of the gotcha ya. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-here-are-a-couple-of-bozos-who-are-right-up-your-alley/658973.md?page=2)