I’m 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 nomination, while standing in front of a “Mission Accomplished” banner draped over the façade of his campaign headquarters, in Miami.
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.
Stop teasing, Andy! We should be so lucky!
From Daily Kos: 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, but about his own personal finances. Here it is:
Senator Rubio, you yourself have said that you’ve 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’s 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?
RUBIO: Well, you just – you just listed a litany of discredited attacks from Democrats and my political opponents, and I’m not gonna waste 60 seconds detailing them all.
Discredited attacks? As Florida Republican Joe Scarborough said Thursday morning:
“Marco just flat-out lied to the American people, there,” he continued. “And I was stunned that the moderators didn’t stop there and go, ‘Wait a second, these are court records. What are you talking about?”
Click through for the rest, Border Booter Rubio lies so much that he typifies the Republican Party.
From NY Times: At one point during Wednesday’s Republican debate, Ben Carson 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.
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 false, without qualification. But the Republican base doesn’t 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’t a liability, and may even be an asset.
And this doesn’t 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 — and they are empowered in part by the way the grifters have defined respectability down.
Click through for the rest of this Paul Krugman editorial. Grifters’ snake oil is fine wine, compared to Republican InsaniTEA.
Cartoon:
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Loved your cartoon.
I just hope there's a decimal point between the last "1" and the "8".
I Hope all works out with your surgery.
Short Takes ~ They shoould all drop out if you ask me. Marco isn't the only liar in the bunch.
Graet cartoon. Love the cat's face.
Take care of yourself. I've been praying and keeping the good thoughts for you.
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New Yorker: Well, isn't THAT just poetic justice! (Or would be.)
Daily Kos/New Yorker – It's a (participial) wonder all those flaming pants didn't burn the studio to the ground.
Cartoon – At first glance, I thought something was "In one ear and out the other." Then I said to myself, "Oh." Cute. Cat looks like my DJ, who shows up as my avatar when I am not logged in to PP. When I am logged in, it is Archie.
Hey, TC! I think you got me beat. My QB just got smacked and he is not going to score like I thought he would. We'll see, but I have a hint that your QB will waltz all over mine!
Oh, Andy! If it were only so!!!
Rubio can lie with the big dogs!!! He had a straight face when he said that! Unfrigginbelievable!!
The rest of the liars are just carrying the party line too far! But I'm Reince will take care of their ills!!
Take care of yourself, TC! I sure worry about you! Many HUGS and Peace going your way, dude! Let us know when you are able to communicate with us. Maybe have someone that can get your condition out to us so we won't be in the dark, OK? We worry, and you are a GREAT friend that I am glad to have!!! Just stay safe, my friend!!
TC, it is great seeing your posts on here, we have all missed you. We are keeping you in our thoughts and prayers every day.
The New Yorker: If Jeb would only listen to Andy!
Daily Kos: Isn't it part of the job to be a great liar? We are having a gubernatorial election in Ky this year. Our phone has not stopped ringing this week, with Republicans telling blatant lies about the Democratic candidate. The answering machine is taking those calls.
NY Times: see above. Carson didn't have sex with that company! I really like Krugman's article, and I shared it on Facebook.
Cartoon: Sweet Kitty had a narrow escape!
New Yorker: Lord, wouldn't that be Wonderful, Andy????
DK: But…isn't how he and the rest of his pack do? Lie, warp facts, and lie some more. ALL of them. ugh!!
Cartoon: How adorable and calm he is. Mine would have nothing to do with something like that in her ear. Just sayin'.
Hope that you get better each day, you're in my daily prayers. Take care, and kitty hugs! Thanks!
Seems like you've not only got things organized for surgery, but you're back in the saddle with short takes as well, TomCat. Great to see them again. And have an extra catnap on me if the thought of new surgery keeps you awake. I wish you all the best.
The new Yorker: Andy's on top of the game again, expressing what so many of us are also asking: "What is this campaign of Jeb all about?" And who is Jeb other than a pretendent to "the throne" because he has a the same surname. Come to think of it, Jeb's biggest mistake may have been that he just jused "Jeb!" as a slogan, forgetting that the people he tried to appeal to had already forgotten what the "B" stood for and who/what those Bushes were.
Daily Kos: Rubio got away with flat out lying, Trump got the moderator to appologize for CORRECTLY quoting him from his site, all candidates got away with attacking both moderators and main-stream media for asking questions that mattered, diverting the whole debate and not answering any questions… They are ALL alowed to get away with anything, Rubio just happened to be the best liar in this particular debate.
NY Times: LOL, I hadn't read Krugman's editorial when I commented on the Daily Kos article above. I could have saved myself the trouble as Krugman says it so much better: "These days, in his party, being an obvious grifter isn’t a liability, and may even be an asset." The Republican base, or what is left of it, doesn't want to hear the truth, they want their candidates to reinforce their own thoughts while they hide behind a mask of Mr Nice. The base either disregards the lies and wrongdoings of these candidates or accepts them because the candidates are so much like themselves and absolve them from their own misbehaviour. Any voter who has seen though it all, will have left them for what they are and is looking elsewhere.
Love your cartoon of a very relieved pussycat.
New Yorker: Andy may very well telling the truth rather than satire at this junction. After the third GOP debate, Jeb "Dumya" Bush may very well be on the way out! Hallelujah!
His poll numbers are so low that a submarine could not find it per NBC News Survey Monkey Oct. 27-29 poll. Graphic numbers from Rachel Maddow Show 10/30/15. Jeb's performance negative score was a -36!
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/gop-candidates-reject-rnc-role-in-debates-556070979788
Kos: Rubio has had so many missteps in his campaign and in his personal life. Marco should simply drop out and go to his "day job" of being a senator unless the voters decide to recall / impeach him for not doing it. Oh the horror…
Times: Golly, another "fib" by Carson. Perhaps the supplement he supports and takes has affected his mind as well. Carson is either stoned, had a lobotomy, has delusions of grandeur or is mentally not there.
Cartoon: Ear temps are slightly a bit different from a rectal temp. Ya think… lol.
Thanks all.