[Ads-l] cake-eater

[Jonathan Lighter]

An odd use of a term I thought disappeared many decades ago.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-fires-off-more-doomed-204359786.html
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"Rick Scott is a shameless cake eater for writing a bill that he would
never have bothered with if Trump wasn't the President."

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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