I'm giving up on Jeb
I have accepted that Jeb Bush did not want to do this president thing and should have listened to his momma who told his butt not to get involved in this race. According to Barbara Bush, America has more families than just the Bush family to bleed the life out of, and I just decided that momma was right.
He is still the decent man that I believed of him, but he's letting Donald Trump dictate his words nearly beyond repair and totally beyond respect.
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| How low exactly are these zeroes? |
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| If Lindsey Graham can remain funny and engaging during the next debate maybe he has the last laugh on Donald Trump. |
I was watching the interview with Lindsey Graham on Morning Joe (MSNBC) this morning and found myself really interested in what he has to say.
Aside from the fact that he outlined the same collaborative military force to address ISIS that we agree upon, he was really really funny.
On Donald Trump:
"Donald Trump is going after that group of Republicans who still think Obama is a Muslim. And I want the other folks"
Graham offered several really thought out suggestions of economic reform, but mostly focused on the entitlement reform of Social Security and Medicaid which he thinks must be means tested according to age in order to keep in solvent for the long term.
Graham was, however, willing to increase taxes on hedge-fund managers too, an idea that Trump has also brought to the fore, but he would only do it if it involved reducing the debt as a part of the deal. To reduce taxes and give that extra cash back to a wasteful government was not in the agenda of Graham.
Graham had the hook in my mouth for the humor and the vision, until suddenly the interviewer asked him about his jobs plan.
He answered Dodd-Frank and then returned into the reducing the debt part of his answer in order to comfort those who don't know what he meant by Dodd-Frank as a jobs plan.
Conservatives and Liberals alike have all come to accept that loose lending is not great, but stiff lending is stifling, maybe even strangling to the jobs market, especially the key area of jobs created by the small business owner.
The biggest reverberation from our economic downturn was the shake up on lending to the small business man, the undisputed lifeline of the American economy. Small business owners are not strangled by corporate enormity which traditionally bleeds payroll for profit as its primary method of operation, especially when times are tough.
Profit through sales can be a really dicey proposition when the consumer is forced into a fickle corner as gas prices pretend to get better but egg prices blow the hell up from that aviary disease ($3.00 per dozen??).
Lindsey is fully unbridled by the fact that he has just enough American support to register 0% in the polls. One percent might be a number that you could put into a computer algorithm and calculate into an actual headcount of support.
Zero is a formula for quitting the race or giving up on the game playing.
Lindsey Graham has quit the game and was amazingly unbridled in a way that could be game changing if he has the chance to dominate the kiddie table debate like Carly Fiorina did.
My sad hunch is that Graham is speaking a little too real and raw for Republicans or America, with the message that we must destroy ISIS in Iraq and then coordinate the next phase- getting them out of Syria too.
What seems imminent is that he will get the chance to introduce himself in this way again, real soon. Much like Ben Carson who has broken through from winning a really boring debate of little nuanced substance using one closing zinger (people only remember the opening and the close), Graham showed this ability today and could shake up the conversation by starting one that we are reluctant to have.
Or he could relegate himself to less than zero percent because only 2 people in America are interested in war with ISIS, RIGHT NOW.
Don't worry Lindsey. SomeONE is still listening to you.
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| I CU Lindsey.....I CU!!! |
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