Big party self-pity

CNBC, a literal network — the one with Rick Santelli allowed to rant about market shares and the network employing Jim Cramer and his endorsements of bull(shit)markets. To me the catastrophe of Wednesday night’s GOP debate wasn’t the questions — it was the moderators’ ignorance. Two of them were caught flatfooted, unable to adduce data

Marco Rubio, working man

“If you work at the VA, and you aren’t doing your job, they get to fire you,” Marco Rubio said last week. “I think people are shocked that that doesn’t actually exist in the entire government, since there’s really no other job in the country where if you don’t do your job, you don’t get

Blood, inheritance, and privilege: Marco Rubio’s problem and ours

It happened at last: Marco Rubio announced his candidacy for an office he won’t get. With his stillborn language and wooden performances, the plankton with a hairpiece pontificates like a member of the Lakeland Chamber of Commerce. A skilled orator can overcome boilerplate. Rubio shows his anger like, to quote Michael Dorsey in Tootsie, a

Can we have mitigation activity on Marco Rubio’s Sunday morning show appearances?

The junior senator from Florida, dear readers: KARL: The White House came out with a big new report on climate change and listed Florida as being right, you know, saying that — that Florida is right at the center of this, that, in fact, Miami, Tampa are two of the cities that are most threatened