This week’s Herald column: Marco Rubio and the ‘magical minority’ theory
This week’s Herald column tackles the GOP’s, and my fellow members of the political media’s obsession with Marco Rubio as Mitt Romney’s running mate. Read more
Another GOP poll (and not a good one) this time on Hispanics
According to a new poll, Hispanic voters have one word to describe the GOP… Read more
Uh oh… more discrepancies in Rubio’s exile story
Marco Rubio has a consistency problem when it comes to the story of his parents coming to America.
This, as they say, is not good. Read more
So… about Marco Rubio’s compelling exile story …
How can you be an exile from Castro's Cuba when Castro wasn't in charge yet?
When he’s not giving the French and the British credit for NATO military accomplishments that couldn’t have been achieved without the U.S. military, or wowing crowds of adoring conservatives, Marco Rubio can sometimes be found telling the heartwarming story of how his family’s exile from Cuba, where they fled the evil, Communist regime of dictator Fidel Castro. Well, about that story… Read more
Florida round-up: RPOF spent $33K with gov’s daughter’s firm, Grayson returns, keeping up with the Kochs
Guess who's back?
Now that Alan Grayson is running for Congress again, what else is happening in the Sunshine State? Read more
This is true: Rubio’s not running in 2012
Marco Rubio throws cold water on GOP hopes, saying he won’t lend some ethnic star power to the 2012 race for president. And you should believe him. Read more
In These Times: Marco Rubio’s prison problem
BFFs Marco Rubio, Senator, and David Rivera, Congressman.
There is a stench growing around the Miami claque that spawned from Jeb Bush’s political machine (a machine that has only begun to flex its national muscle, with his top fixer Al Cardenas now atop the American Conservative Union, Marco Rubio in the U.S. Senate, David Rivera in the House, and Bush’s cronies in veto-proof charge in Tallahassee. Read more
Florida to D.C.: More trouble for David Rivera
The hits just keep coming for the newly elected Congressman from Miami. Read more
Florida clicks: fun with David and Marco, Jeb says dump pensions, and flaming pianos
BFFs Marco Rubio, Senator, and David Rivera, Congressman.
We catch up with the media’s favorite freshman Senator, one-man American mosaic Marco Rubio, and his best pal David Rivera, whose life is on, well, another trajectory… Read more
Sunday clicks: sexy freshmen! Plus, Trent Humphries; tea party victim of the week
Ladies and gentlemen: your right wing victim of the week!
According to Gawker’s poll, Illinois Republican Adam Kinzinger is sexier than Marco Rubio and Frederica Wilson COMBINED. Say it isn’t so, Freddy! And don’t worry girl, you’ll always be Miami’s sexiest member of the 112th Congress. Poll here. More “by the numbers” courtesy of Politico, complete with Chris Christie ass-kissing (always combined with convenient Bloomberg bashing) here.
BTW I’m still waiting on those Chris Christie at Disney World cellphone pics. Let’s get to work, people!
Also from Gawker: beautiful decay (worth the click)
And the righties are up in arms over the supposed scrubbing of a threat made against a tea party guy during the “This Week” taping in Tucson. Conveniently, the culprit is none other than Eric Fuller, who the right has been pillorying all week for blaming the shooting on Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and other assorted rightie talkers. Wingers, your week is now officially planned. One week of tea party victimization coming right up!
But a quick question: if the incident was “scrubbed” from the broadcast, how did Mediaite get the video? Read more
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