Ben Carson: Bungling Surgeon

Families that basically have unlimited resources and tremendous PR people at their disposal raising kids who seem to "turn out OK" doesn't mean bringing them up in the White House wasn't a selfish parenting decision.

 

What's worse for kids? Pretty sure growing up in the White House is better than mom and dad working as attorneys or lobbyists.

 

I hear Junior landed on his feet.

 

Would have been fun to see them ATVing through the DC streets, though.

 

In the water, I thought?

 

Speaking of kids in the White House, one of my all-time favorite scenes from The West Wing.

 

Looking for Mary Jo's ghost.

 

The boat and the (wife's) driving tickets didn't sink him.

Let's see what this does:



When Marco Rubio was majority whip of the Florida House of Representatives, he used his official position to urge state regulators to grant a real estate license to his brother-in-law, a convicted cocaine trafficker who had been released from prison 20 months earlier, according to records obtained by The Washington Post.

In July 2002, Rubio sent a letter on his official statehouse stationery to the Florida Division of Real Estate, recommending Orlando Cicilia “for licensure without reservation.” The letter, obtained by The Washington Post under the Florida Public Records Act, offers a glimpse of Rubio using his growing political power to assist his troubled brother-in-law and provides new insight into how the young lawmaker intertwined his personal and political lives.

Rubio did not disclose in the letter that Cicilia was married to his sister, Barbara, or that the former cocaine dealer was living at the time in the same West Miami home as Rubio’s parents. He wrote that he had known Cicilia “for over 25 years,” without elaborating.

 

File that under business as usual.

 

Oooohhh!!!! A real estate license! This has to be the end!!!

 

That's not even at the top of the list of "Most Galling Cases of Nepotism Involving Presidential Relatives and 1980s Cocaine-Related Convictions."

 

Interesting if only because it indicates the campaigns are figuring they might as well start using the oppo they've been paying for before it does them no good.