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Rubio: The water-bottle moment was a message from God
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has a perfectly good explanation for why he awkwardly reached for a water bottle during his Tuesday night response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address: It was a message from God. Throughout Rubio’s delivery of the Republican response to Obama’s speech, Twitter users…
Marco Rubio’s long drink of water dominates rebuttal speech coverage
Rising GOP start Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) fell victim to the long-standing Obama rebuttal curse tonight, as he awkwardly reached for a drink of water from an off-camera bottle mid-speech. “In the short time I’ve been here in Washington, nothing has frustrated me more than false choices like the ones…
DREAMers vow to push Rubio: ‘He does have a lot to lose’ on immigration reform
An alliance of activists and lobbyists on behalf of undocumented immigrants said on Tuesday that they would monitor Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) participation in the bipartisan push for immigration reform. “He does have a lot to lose,” Pamela Gómez, of the DREAM Action Coalition told The Raw Story, alluding to…
GOP strategist: We need Rubio because ‘he knows who Tupac is’
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has been hailed by many Republicans as the savior of the party, what with his youth, charisma and Cuban heritage. Yet that’s not all he has to offer. According to one Republican strategist, the freshman Florida Senator also knows a little something about 90s rap music…
Republican rebrand: Is it more than skin deep?
US Republicans are rebranding themselves in the wake of last year’s defeat, but the makeover is looking less like a genuine bid to woo women and minorities and more like a civil war within the party. The party was hammered in the November election, with voters rejecting Republican nominee Mitt…
Physicist Lawrence Krauss on teaching creationism: It’s a form of child abuse
In brief video published by Big Think on Monday, physics professor Lawrence Krauss said that teaching school children incorrect facts about the age of the planet was a form of abuse. Krauss noted that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) recently declined to say how old the Earth was, insisting it was…
Hayes and panel: Marco Rubio will likely face right-wing backlash
Saturday morning on MSNBC’s “Up with Chris Hayes,” host Chris Hayes and panelists discussed the political prospects of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R), who some see as a top contender for the Republican Party’s hopes in 2016. Panelists Aaron Pena of the Hispanic Republican Caucus of Texas and Lorella Praeli…
Rubio: Obama ‘doesn’t have the guts’ to admit he’s against the Second Amendment
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) says that President Barack Obama probably wants to repeal the Second Amendment but “doesn’t have the guts” to admit it. The Florida Republican on Wednesday told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly that he opposes Obama’s efforts to curb gun violence because his ideas won’t work and…
Bill Maher has new rules for 2013
Bill Maher, who referred to 2012 as “meh,” is looking forward to the new year. In fact, Maher has a list of new rules for 2013, which have been published by the New York Times. One reads, “Now that their end-of-the-world prophecy has proved to be complete baloney, the Mayans…
Rubio backtracks: Science proved ‘definitively’ Earth is ‘at least 4.5 billion years old’
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) may have damaged his credibility with creationists on Wednesday when he reversed course and declared that science proved “definitively” the the Earth was “at least 4.5 billion years old.” The Florida Republican had recently suggested to GQ magazine that the Earth could have been “created in…
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