At the kid's table-and the whole GOP debate was the kid's table-the other little GOPers cried and cried about what mean ole Donald Trump was doing to their little debate.
As Krugman points out there was precious little discussion of the economy that night-partly because they were all preoccupied with Trump.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/10/opinion/paul-krugman-gop-candidates-and-obamas-failure-to-fail.html
One of the few to even hint at anything of substance was Rubio who claimed that he is the one to beat Hillary.
Rubio then pivoted to how his background compared to Clinton’s, and rejected the idea that the election should be a straight resume competition. “If this election is a resume competition, then Hillary Clinton’s going to be the next president, because she’s been in office and in government longer than anybody else here tonight.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/hillary-clintons-350-billion-plan-to-kill-college-debt-121210.html#ixzz3iQS5geno
As Krugman points out there was precious little discussion of the economy that night-partly because they were all preoccupied with Trump.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/10/opinion/paul-krugman-gop-candidates-and-obamas-failure-to-fail.html
One of the few to even hint at anything of substance was Rubio who claimed that he is the one to beat Hillary.
Rubio then pivoted to how his background compared to Clinton’s, and rejected the idea that the election should be a straight resume competition. “If this election is a resume competition, then Hillary Clinton’s going to be the next president, because she’s been in office and in government longer than anybody else here tonight.”
“This election had better be about the future, not the past,” continued Rubio. “It better be about the issues our nation, and the world, is facing today.”
“This country is facing an economy that has been radically transformed,” he said, mentioning how Amazon, which is now America’s largest retailer, did not have a single brick-and-mortar location.
“These changes have been disruptive…and we need someone who understands that as our nominee.”
“If I’m our nominee, how is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck,” asserted Rubio, whose father worked as a bartender and mother as a maid.
“How is she going to lecture me about student loans? I owed over a hundred thousand dollars just four years ago. If I’m our nominee, we will be the party of the future.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/06/marco-rubio-hillary-clinton-cant-lecture-me-on-living-paycheck-to-paycheck/
With all the consternation about Trump insulting Megyn Kelly-conservatives are as politically correct as liberals as long as the victim is blonde Fox News commentator who thinks Santa Claus is white.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/megyn-kelly-shows-us-nothing-matters.html
-there is something ageist in this line of Rubio's as if older candidates are out of touch. Did he feel that way about Reagan?
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/marco-rubios-ageist-attack-on-hillary.html
Well 'How is she going to lecture me?' indeed. I don't know what he means by lecture. I mean Hillary has a new plan that she'll be discussing the next two days.
"Hillary Clinton on Monday rolled out a sweeping higher education plan — a $350 billion proposal that would help millions pay for college and reduce interest rates for people with student loans."
"The plan, which would change the way a large swath of Americans pay for college, borrows ideas from the left and the right and even expands a program enacted by her husband. It includes ideas already being discussed in Congress and for which groundwork has been laid by the Obama administration. The proposal, dubbed the New College Compact, is unlikely to win over many in the GOP because the $350 billion over 10 years would come from cutting tax deductions for the wealthiest Americans."
"The compact’s baseline goals are to allow students to attend a four-year public college without taking out loans for tuition, attend a community college tuition-free, push states to spend more on higher education, encourage institutions to cut costs while boosting graduation rates and reward innovation."
"The plan also draws from Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has condemned the federal government for supposedly profiting on student loans. (The administration has said the interest on student loans is spent on things like Pell Grants and the loan-repayment programs that make repayment proportionate to a borrower’s income.)"
"Clinton’s compact also would allow refinancing so existing borrowers could sharply cut their interest rates, another Warren idea congressional lawmakers rejected last year. It would have been paid for by taxing the wealthy.
So is that his idea of her lecturing everybody? Basically just proposing a solution to a real problem? If so how does he rebut it? Just pointing out that he himself has had over $100,000 in debt? But this is what conservatives never seem to get. What's more important than your biography is your policies.
What's more important for women than whether the candidate is a female herself is whether the candidate will push for policies that help women, etc.
As for Rubio having $100,000 in college debt I find that very interesting as many in his party seem to think that he's an outlier:
"Republicans, including Senate education committee Chairman Lamar Alexander have argued that public college tuition is largely affordable now and that stories of students who have racked up more than $100,000 of debt are outliers."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/hillary-clintons-350-billion-plan-to-kill-college-debt-121210.html#ixzz3iQS5geno
So what does Rubio say to them as they think he's an outlier-I too am an outlier as are many I know who have had to take out student loans to go to college.
If he refuses to contradict his fellow Republicans here as he didn't contradict Scott Walker last Thursday who believes in no exceptions on anti abortion laws even the life of the mother then indeed Hillary will have plenty to 'lecture him about.'
The question for Rubio is while it's nice to know he like me an President Obama and his wife and many others had $100,000 in college debt what does he intend to do about it?
If he refuses to contradict his party when he'll fair no better than any other GOPer who thinks college is affordable now.
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