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Topic: Is Marco Rubio
the new darling of
the liberal commentariat? |
Is Marco Rubio
the new darling of
the liberal commentariat?
Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 2/6/2013 10:27:15 PM
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| Marco Rubio has been tapped to give the Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post takes the occasion to declare Rubio “first-among-equals when it comes to the future leaders of the party.” Thanks, Chris, but I think the Republican rank-and-file will make that determination, not liberal political reporters. To appreciate the weakness of Cillizza’s claim, let’s recall the Republicans who have delivered the previous responses to Obama’s State of the Union address. They are: Mitch Daniels (2012), Paul Ryan
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
bob913, 2/7/2013 12:40:13 AM (No. 9162861)
He is all for bringing in Mexico. Of the liberals like him. America will be destroyed!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Gallo3, 2/7/2013 1:04:20 AM (No. 9162879)
They are trying desperately to neutralize Mario by bringing him on to their commy fold in order to nmake us hate him.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bighambone, 2/7/2013 3:11:32 AM (No. 9162928)
The liberal media always does that with Republicans and gives the Republicans enough rope to hang themselves at the right time.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 2/7/2013 3:24:06 AM (No. 9162932)
Shhhh... Let them swoon. Rubio is a gift from God.. a true conservative Christian. Let him work his magic.
Rubio appeals to the working latino families... unlike Obama´s radicals.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Spidey, 2/7/2013 4:00:41 AM (No. 9162948)
At this point,I trust Rubio and am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on his immigration plan.Although the concept of forgiveness here sends the wrong message.
I mean obviously,every one in this country illegally should be sent packing and have them apply for visas the way people in other countries have to.People in other countries can´t swim 3000 miles and casually blend in once they get here like mexican border bangers do.
Immigration is just another political football to paint republicans as racists.I think it´s a brilliant idea for Rubio to give the response in Spanish and that´s why someone like Cizilla is freaking out.This is what I mean about republicans becoming more progressive but not in a liberal sense,just keeping up with the times while sticking with principles.
Make no mistake about it,Rubio´s immigration plan completely caught Obama off guard and preempted him on the issue,he´s now flailing around about it.
The funny part about this whole discussion is that illegals would be better off staying illegal.If they became citizens,they might have to start paying taxes like everybody else.
There´s billions of uncollected taxes from these wage earners and that´s why they can work for a lower dollar amount.Employers love it because it´s a lot less paper rwork and they don´t have to pay the FICA tax,workman´s comp,unemployment fund etc.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Muguy, 2/7/2013 4:52:23 PM (No. 9164375)
For a republican, today´s media makes for strange bedfellows-- see: Senator McCain, Mitt Romney, etc
If they get too cozy trying to set up the next contestant on the 2016 liberal scam, run away!
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‘Rosen’s in the Wind!’
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National Review Online, by Jonah Goldberg
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/21/2013 9:29:36 PM
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John Podhoretz has a good column today on the Obama administration’s travails. I did not know this bit until I read the column: Even more startling, the search warrant makes clear that the FBI already had everything it needed on the leaker, as the request for a search warrant features quotes from an interview that were tantamount to a confession. It asked that the warrant be sealed — in other words, that Rosen not be told — because knowledge might “cause subjects to flee”! Imagine it: Rosen, an on-air reporter
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All of Obama´s Scandals Are
Ultimately About Information Control
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National Review Online, by Jim Geraghty
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/21/2013 9:26:54 PM
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There’s really no reason for the press to suggest that the recent slew of scandals involving the Obama administration — Benghazi, the AP phone-record seizure, the snooping in James Rosen’s e-mail, the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, and so on — are a confusing jumble. There is a very clear thread running through all of the administration’s actions: The U.S. deputy chief of mission in Libya, Gregory Hicks, says that he was told not to speak to a member of Congress about Benghazi without a State Department lawyer present, that he received a phone call from Hillary Clinton’s
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McCain Finds Paul´s Defense
of Apple ´Offensive´
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Mike Flynn
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/21/2013 9:23:07 PM
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On Tuesday, KY Sen. Rand Paul launched a spirited defense of Apple, whose tax strategies were subject to a hearing of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. "I frankly think the committee should apologize to Apple," Paul said. Paul went on to accuse the committee of "bullying" one of America´s greatest companies, prompting Sen. John McCain to quickly defend the inquiry and say that Paul´s remarks were "frankly, offensive." On Monday, the committee released a report alleging that Apple improperly sheltered $44 billion in profits overseas. Sheltering profits outside the United States
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"When Fascism Comes to America . . ."
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National Review Online, by Mona Charen
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/21/2013 7:54:10 AM
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Liberals used to love to quote the (apparently apocryphal) line from a Sinclair Lewis character “When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and waving a cross.” Wonder if they’re reflecting on that this week? We knew that early in the first term, the White House attempted to exclude a news agency from pool reports. Now come revelations that the Justice Department engaged in sweeping eavesdropping on AP journalists; that the IRS targeted conservative private citizens while favoring liberal ones; that the EPA charged fees to conservatives groups while waiving them for “green” activists;
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Crews dig through night
after deadly Okla. twister
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Associated Press, by Nomaan Merchant and Tim Talley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/21/2013 7:42:54 AM
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MOORE, Okla. — Spotlights bore down on massive piles of shredded cinder block, insulation and metal as crews worked through the night lifting bricks and parts of collapsed walls where a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood. At least 51 people were killed, including at least 20 children, and those numbers were expected to climb, officials said Tuesday. The storm stripped leaves off trees and left scores of blocks in Moore barren and dark. Rescuers walked through neighborhoods where Monday´s powerful twister flattened home after home
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Senate Committee Poised
to Beat Up On Apple
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/20/2013 10:17:46 PM
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Steve wrote this morning about a hearing being held this week by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, in which Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, will testify tomorrow. The subcommittee apparently is trying to highlight supposed tax avoidance on the part of American companies, as the Associated Press reports: Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found. The world’s most valuable company is holding overseas some $102 billion of its $145 billion in cash, and an Irish
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
Urged Feds to ´Investigate
True the Vote´ in 2010
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Brandon Darby
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/20/2013 10:06:28 PM
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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) asked Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate election integrity org True the Vote and its associated Tea Party group, King Street Patriots, immediately before the IRS and DOJ began targeting the group in June 2010. Rep. Jackson Lee sent a letter to Holder which alleged that True the Vote was intimidating voters and their election monitors were crossing the line in unspecified “instances” of voter intimidation. The letter went on to directly assert that the “alleged events” were factual and that the True the Vote effort was behind the crimes
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White House Chief of Staff knew about
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New York Post, by S.A. MILLER
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Posted By: FlyRight- 5/20/2013 4:15:03 PM
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WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Serviced scandal today spread further within the White House and closer to President Obama. White House spokesman Jay Carney today disclosed that Obama’s chief of staff, Dennis McDonough, and other top White House officials had advance warning that the IRS was targeting conservative groups. But he insisted McDonough and the other White House officials purposely kept Obama out of the loop.McDonough “rightly chose not to take action” to inform Obama, Carney told reporters at the daily White House briefing.
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BREAKING: WashPost Reports
Obama DOJ Also Spied on
James Rosen of Fox News
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Newsbusters, by Tim Graham
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Posted By: drive- 5/20/2013 7:29:20 AM
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The Washington Post on Monday reported that Obama’s Department of Justice was investigating journalists before they started wiretapping the Associated Press – for one, Fox News correspondent James Rosen in 2010. Their headline wasn´t "Obama Team Also Spied on Fox News." Fox wasn´t in the headline, on A-1 or on A-12, where the story continued. Newly obtained court documents “reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010.” Reporter Ann Marimow began:
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Top IRS official will
invoke Fifth Amendment
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Los Angeles Times, by Richard Simon and Joseph Tanfani
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 5/21/2013 3:53:35 PM
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WASHINGTON – A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups. Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won’t answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening – or why she didn’t reveal it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor 3rd. Lerner was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight committee Wednesday.
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Leaks turn to deluge
for reeling White House
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New York Post, by John Podhoretz
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/21/2013 4:49:13 AM
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The wheels came off the Obama administration yesterday. We learned of a startling assault on freedom of the press by the Department of Justice, following the revelation last week of the unprecedented information-gathering foray by that department against The Associated Press. Then, a few minutes later, the Justice Department’s inspector general released a report declaring that the US attorney in Arizona used the leak of a confidential memo to try to discredit a whistleblower in the notorious “gun-walking” scandal known as Fast and Furious (which got two federal agents killed). The leak was called “egregious.”
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White House Aide calls
Criticism of Obama ´Offensive´
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New York Times, by Brian Knowlton
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Posted By: FlyRight- 5/20/2013 7:01:33 AM
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A senior adviser to President Obama mounted a combative defense of the administration on Sunday, saying the controversies enveloping the White House were the result of Republican lawmakers’ trying to “drag Washington into a swamp of partisan fishing expeditions, trumped-up hearings and false allegations.”The remarks came from Dan Pfeiffer, a member of the president’s inner circle, as he appeared on all five major Sunday morning talk shows in an effort to move the administration past what commentators have described as a “hell week” of controversy and missteps.
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If Your Doctor Asks You About
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Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 1:12:07 PM
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Stuart Varney said this morning on "Varney & Co." that one of his producers was given a questionnaire with some surprisingly intrusive questions on it when he switched doctors. One of the questions was whether he/she was concerned about unsecured weapons in the home. Another asked whether he/she was "in a relationship in which you have been physically hurt or are you afraid of your partner?" Judge Andrew Napolitano explained that the question about guns comes out of a post-Sandy Hook executive order by President Obama, but it will be required under Obamacare. Varney expressed amazement
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Democratic Senator uses Okla.
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Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor
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Posted By: bamapreacher- 5/20/2013 8:20:54 PM
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While many Americans were tuned into news coverage of the massive damage from tornadoes ravaging the state of Oklahoma, Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail against his Republican colleagues for denying the theory of anthropogenic global warming. Whitehouse spent 15 minutes chastising GOP senators and justified his remarks by alluding to states that seek federal assistance in the wake of natural disasters. “So, you may have a question for me,” Whitehouse said. “Why do you care? Why do you, Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, care
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