Past their prime...

[Lamplighter]

Trump's latest campaign slogan...

[Lamplighter]

Today's King of the Post-Prime business talking heads....



Ben Stein: Cell phones are a drag on the economy
Sunday Morning tv - 8/2/15 - CBS News

Worker productivity is how much each worker produces per unit of time.
It rose very rapidly for decades after 1941, and, recently, the rate of rise has been tepid.

Even if you don't believe the connection between productivity and wages,
(or between productivity and unemployment)...

productivity has continued to rise since the birth of the cell-phone...

[xoxoxoBruce]

True.

[it]

So what I am reading here is... Gen X'ers want the babyboomers to retire from politics so that they can finally have their day.

I hear you... But here's the thing... Millennials have already discussed this - on the latest social media thingy that you still haven't heard about that will fade off by the time you will - and we decided we're skipping you guys. We've contracted the babyboomers - the ones we've taught to use email - and they agreed it's for the best. They are already expanding the White House basement.

[Lamplighter]

Speaker John Boehner Will Resign From Congress
NY Times - JENNIFER STEINHAUER - SEPT. 25, 2015

WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner, under intense pressure from conservatives in his party,
will resign one of the most powerful positions in government and give up
his House seat at the end of October, throwing Congress into chaos it tries to avert a government shutdown.

Mr. Boehner made the announcement in an emotional meeting with his fellow Republicans Friday morning.
...

[BigV]

Is this a trick or a treat?

[glatt]

If he's being pushed out because he's not partisan enough, I can only imagine that his replacement is going to be swell.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Past their prime...
I stand by my co-optation.
...

Next in line for media attention is Ben Carson
--- at least until the end of the Iowa Caucuses, then this too shall pass.

I have to tell you, ObamaCare is really, I think, the worst thing that has happened
in this nation since slavery. And it is in a way, it is slavery in a way.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Meanwhile the base is apoplectic.. Another Nigerian, oh noes. But Carson is just a tool to trip Trump, cause confusion and consternation, so when the power behind the curtain offers up the chosen, the base will gasp him like he's the messiah.

[glatt]

Are you saying Clinton v Bush?

[xoxoxoBruce]

No, I'm saying we won't know until the chosen is revealed.

[Clodfobble]

It's like that study they did, where they put a particular scent on the first female that a male rat is allowed to fuck, and for the rest of his life he will show a preference for that scent, even if it's a horrible death/sewage smell. Our nation is always going to want to fuck Bush/Clinton again, no matter how many better lays might be out there.

[DanaC]

Thanks for that visual image, Clod. I'm going to clear my mental palate with zombie death in Walking Dead.

[tw]

That explains wacko extremists. They only believe the first thing they are told. So a wacko extremist has much in common with a rat. Both want to fuck others.

[Lamplighter]

Mr & Mr Whiner lead GOP candidates in Denver...

Campaigns erupt over greenrooms at third GOP debate
Aides to Chris Christie and Rand Paul complain their work spaces look like bathrooms.
Politico - Alex Isenstadt - 10/27/15

DENVER, Colo. — Just hours before GOP candidates take the stage here Wednesday night,
tensions over the Republican National Committee’s handling of the debates are flaring anew.
...
During a tense 30-minute meeting at the Coors Event Center,
which was described by three sources present,
several lower-polling campaigns lashed out at the RNC.
They accused the committee of allotting them less-than-hospitable greenroom spaces
while unfairly giving lavish ones to higher-polling candidates,
such as Donald Trump and Ben Carson.

I'm imagining the responses of the other candidates:
Trump: Mine is bigger than yours ... It's so great.
Carson: A large mind needs a large space for intellectual reasoning.
Rubio: Gee, I don't know what to make of it ... yet.