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A Sound-Bite Fail

December 7, 2015December 7, 2015 Buck Banks

Marco Rubio seems to be rising in the polls,
But like any politician he can sound like a fool.
After the latest mass shooting,
He had us all hooting
When he tried to change the topic to “bomb control.”

Rubio Tries to Change the Topic from Gun Control to ‘Bomb Control’

December 7, 2015 Buck Banks

I don’t hear anybody talking about bomb control. They put bombs and left bombs behind on the scene of attack, intending to kill even more people than they did with guns.

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A Sound-Bite Fail

Rubio Tries to Change the Topic from Gun Control to ‘Bomb Control’

I don’t hear anybody talking about bomb control. They put bombs and left bombs behind on the scene of attack, intending to kill even more people than they did with guns.

— Sen. Marco Rubio, sounding dumber than usual in an interview with Fox News.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”