Big Daddy tells his minions: do as I say, not as I do.

Guergis has “one of the worst meltdowns a staff member of Charlottetown Airport says he's ever seen,”  then four days later, Jean-Pierre Blackburn nearly had the cops called on him when he took “strong issue with security guards at the Ottawa airport who refused to let him on a plane with a bottle of tequila,” prompting negative press indicating that gee whiz, Canadians really don’t like paying wages to people who feel they are above the law, after which Steve realizes Canadians aren’t completely asleep and decides that he needs to save his own miserable ass by having the PMO say he “will issue an edict to his ministers, reminding them that they're not above the law.”   H/t CC

Impolitical points out that Steve the Arrogant really needs a lesson in respecting the law himself.

Mr. Prorogation who breaks parliamentary convention with ease, Mr. Not-So-Fixed-Election-Date Law, Mr. Defy-Parliamentary-Order-on-Document-Production, Mr. PMO-Instructs-Ministries-to-Disobey-Access-to-Information-Laws...Mr. all of these things is going to issue an edict to his ministers reminding them that they're not above the law. Uh huh. What is it they say, the fish rots from the head. Or do as I say, not as I do?

But really.  We were all kids, once, and we know that eventually, all the do not rules mean nothing if the parent pushing them violates the rules themselves.

Air transport security?  Let’s look back to 2006 and see what example Big Daddy set for his MPs:

... on a recent trip, the Prime Minister was asked by a flight attendant to turn off his cellphone and BlackBerry. Mr. Harper declined. The pilot then made a request, saying it was for safety purposes. The PM relented. But, at the end of the journey, one of his staffers gave the pilot some news: His services would no longer be required on prime ministerial trips.

I guess respecting the law doesn’t apply to egocentric sociopaths who think the rest of the universe is full of shit and destined to be ruled by said sociopath.

Because Big Daddy knows best.  And he is, afterall, Big Daddy.

There's a word for that...

...oh yeah...