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Peter King warns New Yorkers not to support Marco Rubio
Rep. Peter King’s (R-NY) feud with his own party continued on Friday, as he urged his constituents not to support the presidential ambitions of Republican lawmakers like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) after they voted against an aid package to help New York rebuild after Hurricane Sandy. “I think New York…
Sen. Marco Rubio urges U.S. to provide Syrian rebels with ammo
US Senator Marco Rubio urged the United States on Wednesday to provide ammunition to Syrian rebels and share intelligence, as Washington was said to weigh “non-lethal” aid. “What the opposition really needs is access to ammunition,” the prominent Republican said days after a US congressional visit to Israel, the occupied…
W. Kamau Bell: At least Rubio didn’t bite a dog’s head off
W. Kamau Bell came to the defense of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Thursday, asking people to get off his case for his response to the State of the Union address. “It could have been much weirder. He could have been reaching for this,” Bell said, before showing a version…
Maddow: Rubio’s SOTU rebuttal was written for the wrong Obama speech
On Wednesday night’s edition of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow gleefully took apart Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R)’s purported rebuttal to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech. She noted that Rubio’s speech must have been written ahead of time because Rubio was rebutting a number of…
Colbert: ‘Don’t worry, Sen. Rubio. No one noticed that you gave a speech’
Wednesday night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert offered his assessment of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)’s response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, which didn’t go that badly, except for the fact that no one actually seems to have noticed anything that the freshman lawmaker said.…
Why I Mocked Watergate*
So this happened during the speech. True story: I was about to recommend drinking more water before speaking on Twitter and right before I hit send, Rubio went for it. You could just tell that his mouth was gumming all up from nerves and he really needed a drink of…
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…
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…
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…
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