Last time a big CBO score was in the news the current governor of Montana assaulted a reporter who asked him about it and then his flack Shane Scalon and him lied to the police about it and no one ever faced any real consequences.
Luckily the very good reporter he assaulted for doing his job, @Bencjacobs was ok. But I've come to realize that if he'd, say, bludgeoned him badly enough to send him to the hospital for a week, it's likely nothing would have been *that* different. I hope I'm wrong.
@Bencjacobs Also, Trump would later approvingly joke about the assualt (of course) just as he will -- mark my words -- one day joke about the "Hang Mike Pence!" chant.
@Bencjacobs All of which to say: there is line. There's no thing "out there" in the world that once crossed makes things changed. There's much much much worse that can happen and still be excused and apologized for.
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