{"id":17028,"date":"2015-10-30T12:31:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T19:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17028"},"modified":"2015-10-30T12:31:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T19:31:29","slug":"on-the-edge10302015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/30\/on-the-edge10302015\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Edge–10\/30\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m waiting for lunch and wondering how bad Viv will whup my butt at fantasy football.  I think I have everything organized for my surgery.  Thanks and hugs to you all.<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush announced that he was dropping out of the race for the Republican Presidential nomination, while standing in front of a \u201cMission Accomplished\u201d banner draped over the fa\u00e7ade of his campaign headquarters, in Miami.<\/p>\n

Speaking to his remaining staff members who were seated in a dozen folding chairs, Bush thanked them for the hard work that led to the triumphant completion of their mission.<\/p>\n

Stop teasing, Andy! We should be so lucky!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>A crucial part of Marco Rubio’s big debate victory came directly out of his ability to lie with conviction and an innocent look in his eye. Not just about his tax plan<\/a>, but about his own personal finances<\/a>. Here it is:<\/p>\n

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Senator Rubio, you yourself have said that you\u2019ve had issues. You have a lack of bookkeeping skills. You accidentally inter-mingled campaign money with your personal money. You faced foreclosure on a second home that you bought. And just last year, you liquidated a $68,000 retirement fund. That\u2019s something that cost you thousands of dollars in taxes and penalties. In terms of all of that, it raises the question whether you have the maturity and wisdom to lead this $17 trillion economy. What do you say? <\/p>\n

RUBIO: Well, you just \u2013 you just listed a litany of discredited attacks from Democrats and my political opponents, and I\u2019m not gonna waste 60 seconds detailing them all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Discredited attacks? As Florida Republican Joe Scarborough said Thursday morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cMarco just flat-out lied to the American people, there,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd I was stunned that the moderators didn\u2019t stop there and go, \u2018Wait a second, these are court records. What are you talking about?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Click through for the rest, Border Booter Rubio lies so much that he typifies the Republican Party.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>At one point during Wednesday\u2019s Republican debate, Ben Carson<\/a> was asked about his involvement with Mannatech, a nutritional supplements company that makes outlandish claims about its products and has been forced to pay $7 million to settle a deceptive-practices lawsuit. The audience booed, and Mr. Carson denied being involved with the company. Both reactions tell you a lot about the driving forces behind modern American politics.<\/p>\n

As it happens, Mr. Carson lied. He has indeed been deeply involved with Mannatech, and has done a lot to help promote its merchandise. PolitiFact quickly rated his claim<\/a> false, without qualification. But the Republican base doesn\u2019t want to hear about it, and the candidate apparently believes, probably correctly, that he can simply brazen it out. These days, in his party, being an obvious grifter isn\u2019t a liability, and may even be an asset.<\/p>\n

And this doesn\u2019t just go for outsider candidates like Mr. Carson and Donald Trump. Insider politicians like Marco Rubio are simply engaged in a different, classier kind of scam \u2014 and they are empowered in part by the way the grifters have defined respectability down.<\/p>\n

Click through for the rest of this Paul Krugman editorial. Grifters’ snake oil is fine wine, compared to Republican InsaniTEA.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m waiting for lunch and wondering how bad Viv will whup my butt at fantasy football.  I think I have everything organized for my surgery.  Thanks and hugs to you all. Short Takes: From The New Yorker: Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush announced that he was dropping out of the race for the Republican Presidential […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}