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"  The Summer Of Fakery continues, and Marco Rubio is still struggling to free himself from the shrink wrap. The shrink wrap is winning, hands down. Steve Benen over at Maddowblog catches the Rising Star stepping on yet another rake. In his remarks to the Weekly Standard&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Defend &amp;amp;amp; Reform&amp;quot; breakfast -- how do they come up with these names? -- the Republican senator added, in reference to his balanced-budget demands, &amp;quot;This is not an unreasonable request. They will say that it is, but it is not. They will say, &amp;#039;Well you are going to risk default.&amp;#039; The $17 trillion debt is a risk of default.&amp;quot; Here&amp;#039;s a tip for U.S. senators with national ambitions: if you don&amp;#039;t know what &amp;quot;default&amp;quot; means, don&amp;#039;t try to use it in a sentence. Marco Rubio, for example, is clearly confused. Having a national debt only leads to default if the nation finds itself unable to make its payments or meet its obligations on time. The United States doesn&amp;#039;t have that problem -- we have a shrinking deficit, low interest rates, and no problems whatsoever in making our payments. It&amp;#039;s why investors around the globe have been so eager to loan us more money. Annnnd...whap! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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