At yesterday’s Senate confirmation hearing for Secretary of State to be (or not) Rex Tillerson, Fla. Sen. Marco Rubio puffed out his young chest and demanded of Rex whether he considered Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” on the basis of recent bombing of civilians in Syria. Well, if you’re going to be secretary…
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Marco Rubio, Super Loser
Let’s all have a chuckle at the expense of Republican Establishment fair-haired boy Marco Rubio, who can’t understand why the old lies ain’t workin’: “If you had told me a year ago that the front-runner at this stage in the Republican campaign would be a supporter of Planned Parenthood, who says he doesn’t stand with…
Reagan Speaks!
Over at Politico, Michael Kruse has a story up regarding the Jeb/Marco friendship/betrayal kerfuffle that includes a hoary/whorey chestnut attributed to Ronald Reagan, to wit: “There’s no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.” Of course, what Ronnie meant was “there’s no…
Are We Germany Yet?, Part II
Well, Iowa is done, and, fortunately, I didn’t make any predictions, because I would have messed up the Republican side entirely. As I recall, though I can’t find the post, the last time I was heard from, I was predicting a Bush win, marking me as the dumbest prognosticator in the country. Fortunately—or not—my vaguer…
Hey, Alan Vanneman! The U.S. had TWO debates on foreign policy, while you weren’t listening!
Well, indeed we did. I recently complained, rather at length, at the failure of the U.S. political system to generate a meaningful discussion of U.S. foreign policy, noting that, for the past several decades, we’ve been allowed to choose between “idealistic” hawks like Hillary Clinton and, well, shotgun-wielding freaks. But just before the holidays, both…
Three cheers for Ted Cruz! On select occasions only!
Yes, Teddie can be a shit, often, but his recent interview appearing in Bloomberg Politics, in which he denounced his quasi doppelganger/evil twin Marco Rubio as being basically Hillary Clinton in a mansuit, was something of an eye opener. Cruz, rapping with Bloomberg scribe Sahil Kapur, came up with the following bon mots, among others:…
It’s starting to look a lot like Rubio, Part II
A month or two ago I was about to write a post with the awkward title of “It’s starting to look a lot like Rubio—Not!” because my original post appeared to be overtaken by events, as we say in the biz. Sen. Rubio was struggling, while Jeb Bush was sitting on a mountain of cash….
It’s starting to look a lot like Rubio
Well, it is. I’ve got my pundit hat on, and my pundit PJs, and I’m saying the Republican nomination is Fla. Sen. Marco Rubio’s to lose. Big Chris Christie—big, fat Chris Christie, as we say down south—may have just put the last nail in Jeb Bush’s coffin when he came out against the “Common Core”…
The Capitalist System Strikes Back!
The Washington Post has a nice story on the once-nonexistent Cuban real estate market, now springing to life with the prospect of restored Cuban-American relations providing the juice. A few years of free-market growth could create the prosperity that fifty years of Communist oppression virtually extinguished. And Politico reports that U.S. travel to Cuba is…
Obama tosses the Castros in the dustbin of history, while Republicans rage
If they gave prizes for walking corpses—and maybe they should—the Castro brothers’ brutal farce in Havana would certainly win at least an honorable mention—“ugly but ambulant for more than two decades!” has a nice ring to it. But the Republican mainstream seems determined to prop up the beast. Reason’s Matt Welch gives a nice rundown…