Nobody Mentioned the Minimum Wage in Tonight’s GOP “Economic” Debate

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In terms of pure optics, Marco Rubio obviously won the GOP debate tonight, and Jeb Bush lost. That early confrontation between the two men positioned Rubio as a good communicator and Bush as a terrible one, and that narrative stuck for the rest of the night. Bush practically disappeared, while Rubio dominated the rest of the debate. The narrative about Bush quitting is going to gain steam after this disastrous performance.

So far as the other candidates go: Donald Trump and Ben Carson continued to float over all the other candidates on their expectation-free clouds; they neither won nor lost, because typical campaign physics don’t apply to them right now. Chris Christie had a good night, but it won’t be enough to save his campaign from irrelevancy. Ted Cruz earned a few more votes. Carly Fiorina delivered another whopping lie with a straight face, but it wasn’t enough to kick her out of the middle of the pack. Nobody else mattered.

But let’s reflect on what matters, here: tonight’s Republican debate was purportedly on the topic of economics. Instead, we saw every single candidate whine about their media coverage. Nobody mentioned the minimum wage. Income inequality barely came up. As I predicted, their proposed solutions to America’s economic problems involved tax cuts and removing regulations and all the other trickle-down techniques we’ve seen since the dawn of time.

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[tishaLA]

1. Actually, Fiorina did

But not in the way one would want. She said that the government does too many things, none of them well, and that it ruins things when it gets involved. This was in response, I think, to a question about the government doing more to support investment in 401(k)s, and she said that, among the things the government has no business involving itself in is minimum wage issues.

So she's essentially staked about a position vis-a-vis the minimum wage that aligns perfectly with Paul, Cruz, and the other extremists.