…Meet Marco Rubio, who is blowing the doors off Charlie Crist in Florida GOP Senate primary. You might want to get familiar with him, because by 2021 – if not sooner – he could end up in the White House.
Rubio brought down the house at CPAC 2010 in Washington today:
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“To stimulate the economy and create jobs at no cost to the taxpayers, and without borrowing money from foreign governments for which our children and grandchildren will be responsible, and for other purposes.”
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by Nick Bouterie
From the Times-Picayune:
In an unusual alliance, conservative Sen. David Vitter is teaming with self-described socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders to block a vote on Ben Bernanke’s nomination for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
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One day after setting off a stampede of criticism, covered earlier today on the Hayride, over its heavy-handed efforts to bull-rush a pair of travel bloggers into finking a whistleblower which had leaked its Dec. 25 security directive, the Transportation Security Administration has now backed off its demands for immediate compliance.
Blogger Chris Elliott, who had [...]
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Mitch McConnell was dealt an unwinnable hand on health care reform. I’m not going to argue that.
When Al Franken and ACORN stole Norm Coleman’s Senate seat in Minnesota last year, and milquetoast Republicans made only halfhearted attempts to stop it, the die was cast for McConnell. He was sitting at only 40 votes, meaning if [...]
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From a news release by Jim DeMint’s office…
Today, U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) and John Ensign (R-Nevada), raised a Constitutional Point of Order on the Senate floor against the Democrat health care takeover bill on behalf of the Steering Committee, a caucus of conservative senators. The Senate will vote tomorrow on the bill’s constitutionality.
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