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On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon said, after watching Thursday evening’s Republican debate, that she could totally imagine President Marco Rubio behind a microphone lying to the American people. I agree. But after the Benghazi hearings, I imagined the same thing about Hillary Clinton. All the praise of her performance, keeping calm through eleven hours of Gowdy grilling: I'm not saying that only what my mother used to call ”a natural born liar” could do that, but . . .

Sessions (R-Al.)

Definition of a fiscal conservative: Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who is on record as saying that it is ”unacceptable that every dollar of increased defense spending should be matched with a dollar of increased non-defense spending.” After all, ”the people’s congress” has to be about wiping out the rest of the world, for God’s sake! not poverty at home.

According to the Washington Post online, “the 100 largest chief executive retirement” accounts “are worth $4.9 billion . . . . On average, these CEOs have enough assets salted away to each generate a monthly retirement check of over $277,000.” (What does that look like?) This is more than $165,000 more than the typical worker between the ages of 55 and 64 has in retirement savings.