Morning Joe is much more palatable without the Joe!

Don't hurry back Joe.
And no Pat Buchanan!
Am I in some dream world??

For instance, the canard about everyone died before collecting Social Security in the 1930's because the life expectancy was 62. If you check the facts:

If we look at life expectancy statistics from the 1930s we might come to the conclusion that the Social Security program was designed in such a way that people would work for many years paying in taxes, but would not live long enough to collect benefits. Life expectancy at birth in 1930 was indeed only 58 for men and 62 for women, and the retirement age was 65. But life expectancy at birth in the early decades of the 20th century was low due mainly to high infant mortality, and someone who died as a child would never have worked and paid into Social Security. A more appropriate measure is probably life expectancy after attainment of adulthood.

As Table 1 shows, the majority of Americans who made it to adulthood could expect to live to 65, and those who did live to 65 could look forward to collecting benefits for many years into the future. So we can observe that for men, for example, almost 54% of the them could expect to live to age 65 if they survived to age 21, and men who attained age 65 could expect to collect Social Security benefits for almost 13 years (and the numbers are even higher for women).

http://www.ssa.gov/history/lifeexpect.html

if Joe and Pat are gone.

Mika must have stepped away to sell a few more copies of her stupid book.

:)

Rec

Since Birth certificate/Correspondants Dinner/Osama offing,
many wing nuts disappeared.

Can't handle the truth.

I thought at the time that his mind had completely gone (it had been in tatters for a LONG time). Not long after that show came the OBL takeout. Maybe Pat just couldn't take it any more...

when he was a congressman.

MSNBC gives us 3 great shows with progressives at night, I'm guessing most DUers just wake up in the morning and haven't bothered changing channels from the night before.