HUFFPOST HILL - Marco Rubio Literally Disintegrating

Marco Rubio broke his tooth on a Twix, though at press time it was unclear if it was the Left Twix or the Right Twix. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders both want you to know some of their best friends are black. And George W. Bush will campaign with Jeb next week to remind voters that you can fool them once, but you can't get fooled again. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Thursday, February 11th, 2016:

SNACK DELIBERATELY WEAKENED MARCO RUBIO'S TOOTH - In an unfortunate incident that Marco Rubio's manufacturer should have anticipated when choosing what to build his teeth from, the GOP establishment's favorite android suffered his biggest setback Wednesday since all those other ones. Erica Orden: "Aboard a flight to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday evening, Mr. Rubio, the Florida senator, cracked a molar while snacking on a Twix bar, he told reporters on Thursday when he stopped at a Cracker Barrel restaurant for breakfast with his wife and four children." [WSJ]

CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS ENDORSES CLINTON - Amanda Terkel: "The political arm of the Congressional Black Caucus endorsed Hillary Clinton for president Thursday, a boost ahead of the big South Carolina primary where a heavy percentage of black voters are expected to turn out. 'We must have a president that understands the racial divide -- not someone who just acquired the knowledge recently, but someone who understands the racial divide and has lived it and worked through it down through the years,' said Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), the CBC Chair, Thursday. Clinton's primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), was an organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and he attended the March on Washington in 1963. The Vermont senator has said his involvement was 'a question for me of just basic justice.' Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the preeminent voice on civil rights in Congress, downplayed Sanders' involvement with the SNCC and the movement during the CBC PAC's press conference Thursday. 'I never saw him, I never met him. I was chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for three years -- 1963 to 1966,' he said. 'I was involved in the sit-ins, the freedom rides, the March on Washington, the march from Selma to Montgomery. I directed the board of education project for six years. I met Hillary Clinton. I met President Clinton.'" [HuffPost]

Liberal groups would like Hillary Clinton to list her picks for Treasury secretary, attorney general.

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CONGRESSMAN TAKES BRAVE STAND FOR AMERICA'S DOUCHES - Never fear, dudes-who-just-want-you-to-give-Ayn-Rand-another-try, a Republican lawmaker is here to defend your right to act like jackasses on airplanes. Andy Cush: "Good people of America, the moment has finally arrived. Today, Duncan Hunter, a U.S. Representative from California who first boldly proclaimed his love of vaping not two months ago, blew a sick cloud of e-juice during a Congressional hearing. I love the U.S.A." What really makes this infuriating is members of the public aren't even allowed to bring water into hearing rooms [Gawker]

OH GOOD, ANOTHER DEBATE - Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will face off at 9:00 PM ET on PBS, which is the perfect channel to fall asleep to so long as Bernie isn't constantly shouting. Anyway, Sanders won New Hampshire and almost won Iowa, so that's sort of interesting. Gabriel Debenedetti: "Bernie Sanders is swaggering into the sixth Democratic debate. After a humbling, 22-point defeat in New Hampshire Tuesday, Hillary Clinton is staggering in." [Politico]

Jim Webb now has all the time he wants since nobody wants him to be president, including him, apparently.

SORRY, JEB! NOT FOLLOWING YOU. Jeb Bush is too much of a nice boy to say naughty words, because he knows bad boys go to aitch-ee-double-hockey-sticks. Kyle Cheney: "Jeb Bush has a message for Republican leaders worried about a circular firing squad in South Carolina: Chill….But Bush says he has plans aplenty for Trump too: 'I’m the only guy who’s got the you-know-what to go after him,' Bush said. Whatever could he mean?? Best guesses get a free subscription to HuffPost Hill. [Politico]

George W. Bush is gonna hit the trail for Jeb in South Carolina next week.

CBC HEADED TO FLINT - Tyler Tynes reports that the Congressional Black Caucus is doing an event in Flint in March. "And getting members to Flint and putting boots on the ground is important, since congressmen didn’t fully understand until a few weeks ago how dire the situation is. 'Frankly, members of Congress were not aware of the problem until the last six or eight weeks.' People knew there was a problem but it really didn’t come up to a national recognition,” Rep. Robert 'Bobby' Scott (D-Va.) told The Huffington Post.'" [HuffPost]

Marco Rubio also tut-tuts at salty language.

DELANEY DOWNER - Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) has repeatedly apologized for the toxic water crisis in Flint, heads have rolled and the government has pledged millions to help city kids recover. Although the state dismissed concerns about Flint's bad water for more than a year -- water that is still unsafe to drink -- the apologies, resignations and pledges of assistance shouldn't be taken for granted. The Flint fallout unfolded dramatically differently than a similar crisis more than 10 years ago. Between 2001 and 2004, toxic water poisoned potentially tens of thousands of Washington, D.C. children. But officials there said nobody got hurt and questioned whether lead poisoning through water was even possible -- and they basically got away with it. "Not only did we not receive support for our children, but to this day we have received no official acknowledgement of harm," Yanna Lambrinidou, a D.C. resident and founder of a nonprofit called Parents for Nontoxic Alternatives, said in an interview. "We have received no official apology." [HuffPost]

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HUMAN YOUTUBE COMMENT ENDS OREGON STANDOFF ON YOUTUBE - The last nutjob holed up in that federal building in middle-of-nowhere Oregon finally gave up Thursday, despite repeated claims he'd prefer to be shot to death by the FBI. Andy Campbell: "David Fry, the final occupier of the so-called Oregon militia, walked out and was detained on Thursday, ending a long standoff and negotiation that was broadcast live on YouTube." [HuffPost]

CLINTON AND SANDERS CALL FOR END TO INTERNATIONAL ABORTION BAN - Both Democratic presidential candidates believe the U.S. should scrap a longstanding policy that prohibits American dollars from funding abortions for women in conflict zones and poor nations. Laura Bassett: "Despite the wording of the Helms Amendment, which states that no foreign aid money can be used to pay for abortion 'as a method of family planning,' the policy has been interpreted by ever White House since 1973 to mean any instance of abortion, without exceptions for rape, incest or life of the mother." [HuffPost]

Did diet pills warp Donald Trump's brain?

SOUTH CAROLINA GONNA SOUTH CAROLINA - From the state that brought you "John McCain has a secret black child" and "the Civil War," get ready for the next presidential primary. Darren Samuelsohn: "As the White House hopefuls descend on South Carolina, site of the crucial Feb. 20 GOP primary and then the Democratic contest a week later, they're also heading straight into what might be the seamiest underbelly of American politics." [Politico]

MARVEL AT JOHN KASICH'S UNCANNY GRASP ON REALITY - Exasperated also-ran John Kasich, who also is governor of Ohio, is not going to become president. Bradford Richardson: "Asked to respond to an attack from primary rival Jeb Bush, who said the Ohio governor has 'nothing' in the Palmetto State, Kasich said he was realistic about his chances. 'Well, yeah, we’re going to compete here,' he said on CNN’s 'New Day.' 'We don’t expect to win here.'" [The Hill]

BERNIE BROS QUESTION WHETHER JET FUEL MELTS BALLOTS - The paranoid conspiracy theory phase of the presidential campaign came early this cycle, because Reddit. Philip Bump: "The Iowa caucuses are clumsy and weird, but they do have an advantage over most elections: Everyone in the room knows how you voted. The broad distribution of delegate elections -- hundreds of sites, thousands chosen -- and the transparency in each room provide serious stumbling blocks to broad-scale manipulation of data. Possible? Sure. Anything's possible. It's very safe to assume, though, that Iowa was exactly what it appeared to be: A tie. Then again, we're talking about Reddit. And so the conspiracy was born." [WashPost]

RUBIO PROPOSES DELIBERATELY WEAKENING THE TAX BASE - Marco Rubio loves cutting taxes on rich people so much, he's willing to blow up the federal budget to let them fill their pools with money and swim around in it like Scrooge McDuck. Dylan Matthews: "Rubio's plan would cost the government $6.8 trillion in lost revenue over 10 years, TPC concludes, and would increase the deficit by $8.2 trillion once interest payments are taken into account. That's basically identical to the cost of Bush's plan, and significantly less than Trump's $9.5 trillion/$11.2 trillion proposal. And like both of their plans, it concentrates its benefits heavily among the richest Americans" [Vox]

BECAUSE YOU'VE READ THIS FAR - Scientists have proved Albert Einstein right about gravitational waves, whatever the hell that means.

LOOK, ANOTHER INVESTIGATION IN CLINTONLAND - The Clintons could probably wallpaper their whole huge house with subpoenas at this point. Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman: "Investigators with the State Department issued a subpoena to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation last fall seeking documents about the charity’s projects that may have required approval from the federal government during Hillary Clinton’s term as secretary of state, according to people familiar with the subpoena and written correspondence about it." [WashPost]

Also, the final truckloads of Hillary Clinton's incredibly boring emails will be released by the end of the month.

COMFORT FOOD

- Baby goat does yoga.

- Baby elephant causes trouble around the house.

- Sad deleted scenes from Mrs. Doubtfire.

TWITTERAMA

@andyjayhawk: El Chapo to be tried in Brooklyn. With that mustache, he'll fit right in.

@mattyglesias:The Twix bar knew exactly what it was doing.

@pattonoswalt: If Marco Rubio begins this Saturday's debate with, "I bwoke my toof on a Twix bar..." he's got my support.

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