{"id":17063,"date":"2015-10-31T13:26:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T20:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17063"},"modified":"2015-10-31T22:07:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T05:07:56","slug":"on-the-edge10312015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/31\/on-the-edge10312015\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Edge&ndash;10\/31\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Happy Halloween! There are monsters in Republican sheets and hoods chasing you.&nbsp; Be VERY afraid.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m in a bad typing position.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2015\/10\/message-bullsht-mountain-halloween-be\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>:&nbsp; <\/font>This mashup from Media Matters is so great, because it highlights all the crap they spew year round. Yes, today is Halloween, but for them, every day is Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YlPkX2ASCpU?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Be VERY afraid!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From<\/font> <font color=\"#0000ff\">the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/billionaire-acquires-rubio-pending-physical\" target=\"_blank\">New Yorker<\/a>: Corrected by Squatch<\/font><\/p>\n<p data-wc=\"33\" word_count=\"33\">In the biggest free-agency acquisition of the 2016 Presidential contest, the billionaire investor Paul Singer has acquired Florida senator Marco Rubio for a rumored eight-figure sum, pending a physical.<\/p>\n<p data-wc=\"37\" word_count=\"37\">Just hours after the deal was inked, Rubio was flown by private jet to Singer&rsquo;s training facility in East Hampton, where the senator will submit to a series of gruelling drills before the deal is finalized.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are making a four-year deal with Marco, with an option for another four,&rdquo; an associate of Singer&rsquo;s said. &ldquo;We like what we&rsquo;ve seen of him on tape, but we want to be sure that he has what it takes to go the distance.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy forgot to tell us on what, besides deportation and welfare for billionaires, Border Buster will be tested.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/01\/26\/1360264\/-America-doesn-t-just-have-one-deficit-and-Bernie-Sanders-wants-to-address-seven-of-them\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a> (classic 1\/2015): <\/font>Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to talk about the deficits. Yes, plural. The ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee says the next budget should address a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/finance\/230692-budget-ranking-member-lays-out-plan-to-eliminate-economic-deficits\">deficits in investment<\/a> in the American economy. Income inequality, lack of jobs and especially good jobs, poor infrastructure, bad trade deals, retirement insecurity, and a failure to invest in education&mdash;these are deficits that affect the entire American economy, dragging it down and slowing growth. That&#39;s what Sanders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.budget.senate.gov\/democratic\/public\/_cache\/files\/e90ada48-fe78-4e06-b8b3-d3abf0d50f0d\/01-25-15-sanders-middle-class-report.pdf\">wants to address<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Spot-on Bernie! Click through for more.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/TCRepublicosis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TCRepublicosis\" border=\"0\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/TCRepublicosis_thumb.jpg\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" title=\"TCRepublicosis\" width=\"654\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Halloween! There are monsters in Republican sheets and hoods chasing you.&nbsp; Be VERY afraid.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m in a bad typing position. Short Takes: From Crooks and Liars:&nbsp; This mashup from Media Matters is so great, because it highlights all the crap they spew year round. Yes, today is Halloween, but for them, every day is <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/31\/on-the-edge10312015\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-17063","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\/17063","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=17063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}