NYT daily non-story: After college, Marco Rubio struggled financially. GASP!

Just yesterday, we discussed the New York Times' shocking expose on the Rubio family's 20 year traffic-ticket crime spree. If you read that piece, you know that Marco and his wife have committed the ultimate sin of thumbing their noses at society's motor vehicle code. They live life in a legally-dubious fast lane - one that comes with the all-too-real risk of misdemeanor citation.

The Times story was a roundly mocked as a ridiculous, petty, attack piece and we now know that it was actually fed to the paper by Democrat operatives. So, what is the Grey Lady doing today? Is the paper licking its wounds and making sure it never runs something so patently stupid again? Nope. It's doubling down with another Rubio shocker. After college, Marco Rubio struggled financially. Take a deep breath, let that sink in, and then read this excerpt from a piece titled "Struggles With Finances Track Marco Rubio's Career."

For years, Senator Marco Rubio struggled under the weight of student debt, mortgages and an extra loan against the value of his home totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. But in 2012, financial salvation seemed to have arrived: A publisher paid him $800,000 to write a book about growing up as the son of Cuban immigrants. In speeches, Mr. Rubio, a Florida Republican, spoke of his prudent plan for using the cash to finally pay off his law school loans, expressing relief that he no longer owed “a lady named Sallie Mae,” as he once called the lender.

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For some reason, the New York Times considers student loans news. Why? Like virtually everyone who went to college, Rubio had debt and a lean period after he earned his degree. It's hard to see how that's particularly shocking. ...Could it be that they don't like the way he spent his money once he got it?

But at the same time, he splurged on an extravagant purchase: $80,000 for a luxury speedboat, state records show. At the time, Mr. Rubio confided to a friend that it was a potentially inadvisable outlay that he could not resist. The 24-foot boat, he said, fulfilled a dream.

Using income earned through completely legal endeavors to fulfill a dream? That monster. The Times also points out that, like millions of Americans, he lost money on a house he purchased, and he liquidated a retirement account despite the penalties. This, according to a financial expert who just happens to be an Obama donor, is a bad idea. I know. You're completely horrified. The Times is too. While they do their best to ignore the Clintons' perfect storm of corruption, shady cash deals, and suspicious donations, they've decided that Rubio's financial "missteps" are signs he might not be the best person to guide the nation's finances. ....Surely, the Times would hate to see a horrible, horrible, President do something incredibly destructive like, say, adding almost $8 Trillion to the national debt in 6 years. What's that? They think Obama's budgetary problems are "imaginary?" Never mind, then.