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Marco Rubio Channels Jesus For Midterms, Gets Roasted On Twitter
Let's just be clear about this. If you support Donald Trump or enable his agenda, you have no business talking about Jesus or Christianity. None whatsoever. The sexual predator turned political demagogue is about as far from Jesus Christ as Ted Cruz is to Miley Cyrus. Since ...read more
Marco Rubio Forgets His Ethnicity, Mocks Liberals For Defending 14th Amendment
Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, took to Twitter today to mock liberals for supporting the 14th Amendment after president Trump recently declared he would end birth right citizenship. "History will remember this as the week liberal politicians & legal “scholars” ...read more
MEMBERS ONLY: Don't Call the Parkland Kids Actors. It's an Insult to Theater Kids.
In the wake of the horrendous shooting at Stoneman Douglas High, the students who began the 'Never Again' movement have become America's conscience, quite literally speaking truth to power. Unfortunately, they've also become the target of right-wing scorn, with Facebook posts ...read more
17-Year-Old Parkland Survivor Brutally Owns Marco Rubio At CNN Town Hall
Since he joined the Senate in 2011, Marco Rubio has been one of most feckless members of Congress. Once considered the potential savior of the GOP for his Latino heritage, he has embarrassed himself every time he takes the national spotlight, whether reaching for his water ...read more
HA Goodman, Donald Trump, And Why Mental Health Can't Predict Shooters
Having researched the cesspool of the far left for almost two years now, there's few among its ranks more repugnant than HA Goodman. Formerly a contributor at Salon and The Huffington Post, Goodman wrote hundreds of misleading pieces claiming that Hillary Clinton would be ...read more
Trump's Awesome Trail of Humiliated Republicans Grows Longer by the Day
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are. –Cal Thomas. As a political writer, I’ve always found voluntary humiliation in the political world fascinating to witness. The men and women who enter politics are ...read more
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Marco Rubio Evicted From Office Building After He Chickens Out Of Town Hall Meetings
For weeks, Florida Senator Marco Rubio has been dodging requests from constituents to hold a town hall meeting. His refusal to speak to the people who he serves has become such a problem that Floridians have taken missing person ads in local papers, stapled signs to telephone ...read more
Marco Rubio Remembers He is an American, Warns Republicans Not To Cheer Too Loudly For Wikileaks
In a statement with a surprising amount of foresight, Marco Rubio openly denounced Wikileaks as a danger to American politics. During an interview with ABC News, Rubio made the following astonishing statement: "As our intelligence agencies have said, these leaks are an effort by ...read more
MEMBERS ONLY: How Marco Rubio is Helping Destroy the Future of his Party, and Himself
The statement released by Marco Rubio on his continued support for Donald Trump today should be printed and studied in political science classes for years to come. It highlights the utter madness of the Republican leadership and reveals just how deep the deep rot within the party ...read more
Watch Alan Grayson Torpedo Marco Rubio at Netroots Nation
Alan Grayson kicked off Netroots Nation with a relatively restrained keynote speech, at lesst by Grayson's standards, that did include this one sick burn on Marco Rubio: ...read more
Please Don’t Compare Marco Rubio to President Obama, Ever Again
After his humiliating exit from the presidential race, Marco Rubio has slowly crept back into the news cycle. In a Politico story, Rubio stated a new found love of the Senate, and said this when asked about being considered for Vice President by Donald Trump: I have no ...read more
Marco Rubio Generously Allows Obama Didn’t Cause Trump Chicago Debacle
Florida Senator and fading presidential hopeful Marco Rubio spent part of Saturday morning railing against Donald Trump and the ugliness of his rallies, which culminated in a surprise cancellation Friday night due to widespread protests and clashes with Trump supporters. True to ...read more
Donald Trump Was Asked to Disavow David Duke. How'd That Go?
Here are some highlights from this week's Sunday shows. On CNN Sunday morning, Jake Tapper took a run at getting Donald Trump to disavow his white supremacist supporters, particularly David Duke. Here's how that went: Just so you understand, I don't know anything about David ...read more
Quote of the Day: Paul Krugman Calls Marco Rubio a "Fringe Crank"
As a Brit I have always been confused by what Americans regard as 'right' and 'left'. Having followed politics closely in this country since the late 90's, I understand that in America Bill Clinton is considered liberal while George W. Bush is considered conservative. In ...read more
Marco Rubio Supports Agony Panels
These days, Marco Rubio is known more for his performance art recreation of a glitching android than for being an actual U.S. senator, an act that is becoming harder and harder for him to shake. At a campaign rally in New Hampshire Monday night, Rubio actually seemed on the ...read more
Watch As Respectable Journalist Can't Keep His Black Republicans Straight
As the stakes in the 2016 election get higher, the campaigns and their accompanying coverage get weirder and weirder. I'm not just talking about the big things, like Marco Rubio's human blue screen of death or Donald Trump calling Ted Cruz a pussy, but the lesser-noticed things ...read more
Paul Krugman: Democrats Exist in a "Different Intellectual and Moral Universe" Than Republicans
After lambasting Marco Rubio's atrocious debate performance where he regurgitated a canned response to Chris Christie about how awful President Obama was three times, Paul Krugman accused the entire Republican party of existing in a "time loop" due to their complete inability to ...read more
Chris Christie and Marco Rubio Unwittingly Exposed Default Republican Position on Literally Everything
On Saturday night, Chris Christie and Marco Rubio unwittingly revealed the default Republican position on every policy ranging from healthcare to taxes and the environment. What is that response? In one word: Obama In a surprisingly brutal takedown, Chris Christie called Rubio ...read more
Here’s How Donald Trump, Megyn Kelly, and Chris Christie Won the Fox News Debate
It's the morning after Fox News held what has to be an unprecedented Republican primary debate that was missing the party's frontrunner, and you're going to hear a lot of analysis today making the cute claim that Donald Trump won the debate simply by virtue of the shadow his ...read more
CNN Reporter Destroys Chris Christie Over Disastrous Approval Ratings
New Jersey Governor and Republican presidential kitten-hanging-from-a-branch motivational poster Chris Christie took a beating on Sunday morning at the hands of CNN's Jake Tapper. On the morning after Christie was shamed into returning to New Jersey during one of the worst ...read more
Watch Marco Rubio Get Exposed For Obamacare Lies on Live Television
Florida Senator and Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio just got busted like a shirtless guy in a trailer park over his claim to have ended something he calls the "Obamacare bailout." On this week's Fox News Sunday, Rubio basked in the afterglow of his endorsement by The ...read more
Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz Were For an Iran Prisoner Deal Before They Were Against It
The leading voies who are trashing President Obama securing the freedom of four U.S. prisoners from Iran this weekend, including former Marine Amir Hekmati, Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, and Pastor Saeed Abedin have tied themselves in knots expressing happiness at the ...read more
Ha! Ted Cruz's Best Defense Now is How Utterly Full of Sh*t He Is
Since Tuesday night's debate, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have been in a pitched battle over immigration reform, specifically the part where the 12 million undocumented immigrants who are living here now get to pay taxes, and whether they get representation along with that ...read more
Marco Rubio's Plan for LGBT Rights Says Everything You Need To Know About the GOP
Marco Rubio is supposed to be the sane one. He's positioned himself as face of young-ish conservatism, a Spanish-fluent son of Cuban exiles who tries not to come off as a rabid ideologue and who claims to love hip-hop in general and Wu-Tang in particular (even though he couldn't ...read more
Watch and Share Clips From the CNN Republican Debate
Tonight is the night! CNN is hosting the last Republican primary debate of the year, moderated by Wolf Blitzer, Dana Bash and Hugh Hewitt at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada. As usual, we will have embeddable clips from the main debate, in near real-time. With Donald Trump ...read more
The GOP Debates Are a Sick Spectacle That Should Fill You With Dread
Whenever a Republican presidential debate nears, there's a feeling of dread the creeps over me that I now find overwhelming. For professional purposes, I am supposed to watch the meaningless spectacle in order to provide commentary on it, but truth be told, I'm not watching it ...read more
Rubio Says Paris Attacks Were 'Positive Development'
Fut the whuck? On Sunday's edition of Fox News Sunday, Senator and Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubiocommitted the kind of gaffe that would ordinarily dominate a news cycle, but because he isn't Donald Trump and didn't go balls-out racist/Islamophobe, nobody seems to ...read more
Status update
And now, your Moment of Jeb. I love the look of panic in his eyes when Gangel follows up. Yeah, Jeb, that's pretty much the textbook definition of "attacking." Also, just one more pro tip for Jeb. People who actually eat nails before breakfast don't say that about themselves, ...read more
The Republican Candidates' Tax Plans Are Basically Bullsh*t
Over the years, the Republican party has steadfastly maintained that it is the party of fiscal responsibility while the Democrats are big spending teenagers racking up debt on daddy's credit card. "It sounds great, but who is going to pay for it?" you hear condescending ...read more
Jeb Bush Is Finished and So Is Establishment Conservatism
Last night, the public witnessed the death of not only Jeb Bush as a viable candidate for President, but the end of establishment conservatism in America. Bush had been faltering badly in the polls before the debate and needed a game changing performance to turn things around. ...read more
Watch All the Video Highlights From The CNBC Republican Presidential Debate
Welcome to our coverage of the third Republican Presidential Debate on CNBC, moderated by Carl Quintanilla of Squawk on the Street, Becky Quick from Squawk Box, and chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood. As before, we will have debate clips in near-real time, posted in ...read more
Jeb Bush Agrees Marco Rubio Lied, But he's Fine With It
Jeb Bush has a Biff problem, as Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has demonstrated time and again, but if you need any more evidence that the former Florida Guv is weaker than day-old Sanka, you'll find it in the recent tale of how Marco Rubio lied (he really didn't). It all ...read more
Quote of the Day: Marco Rubio is the Most Dynamic Speaker Since Abraham Lincoln
There's dumb shit, and then there's duuumb shit. The latter category was owned by radio host Hugh Hewitt Friday morning when he told an incredulous world that Marco Rubio is the most "dynamic" Republican speaker evar, or at least since Abraham Lincoln, giving Joe Scarborough the ...read more
Marco Rubio's Grotesque Vision of Women is an Indictment of Republican Values
Last week, Presidential candidate Marco Rubio declared that organizations like Planned Parenthood are creating a profit incentive for abortions. He told an Iowa-based TV station: I just think you’ve created an industry now — a situation where very much, you’ve created an ...read more
Watch Top 31 Video 'Highlights' From the CNN Republican Debate #GOPDebate With Transcript
Now that the Republicans' Sad Trombone Debate is over, it's time for the main event, this time with more Carly Fiorina! All of the candidates in the main debate have telegraphed their desire to take on frontrunner Donald Trump, which means we can expect to see lots of painfully ...read more
More Florida Voters Want Jeb Bush to Drop Out Than to Continue Running
If you need any further validation that Bernie Sanders is right about at least one thing, look no further than Jeb Bush. Money in politics is one of the twin pillars of Bernie Sanders' message to voters, and nowhere is that influence more evident than in the continued existence ...read more
Here Are The Craziest 19 Moments From the Republican Debate
After cramming 7 minutes of entertainment into 80 minutes of kiddie-table debate Thursday afternoon, the main event is finally here: the first official 2016 Republican presidential candidates' debate. Frontrunner Donald Trump faces off against former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, ...read more
Marco Rubio, You’re The One With No Class
While vacationing this past week in Mexico with my family, I decided not to look at any news or go to any websites for the first four days. The demanding nature of my children made the time pass quickly as we, along with my wife, did our best to enjoy as much as possible. When ...read more
Here Are the 6 Most Prominent Republicans Promoting the Planned Parenthood Body Parts Lie
Debunking right wing attempts to smear and destroy institutions beneficial to women, minorities and the poor is never difficult to do. The childishness employed by right wing hit groups can be quickly neutered with simple google searches, or in the case of the Planned Parenthood ...read more
Marco Rubio's Coded Racism Still Can't Budge Trump in Presidential Polls
The Republican presidential field's increasingly desperate attempts to compete with Donald Trump have seen Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) performing an array of violent acts on inanimate objects, and has culminated in Sen. Marco Rubio's poorly-coded appeal ...read more
Marco Rubio's Treasonous Tweets Over Iran
In March of this year, a petition was sent to the White House signed by over 320,000 people in protest of the Republicans who sent a letter to the Iranian government in order to undermine official negotiations over nuclear disarmament. The petition stated: On March 9th, 2015, ...read more
Marco Rubio Says Iraq War 'Was Not a Mistake' Six Times in Three Minutes
Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush has just finished putting on a spectacular week-long display of stepping on his own dick after setting fire to it, then setting fire to it again and stepping on it some more, over the question of whether the United States should have invaded Iraq in ...read more
The GOP Primary Clown Car Is Too Full To Drive Anywhere
Stuffing as many people into a compressed space as possible is a long, storied and stupid American tradition, from the 1950s phone booth cramming craze to the ever-declining size of airline seats. Today's Republicans are already applying the same principle to their ongoing ...read more
Marco Rubio's Epic Battle Against Thirst Rages On During Presidential Announcement
On Monday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, and in short order reprised the case of desert-mouth that made him famous in his 2013 rebuttal to the State of the Union. Once again it was the most interesting part of his speech, ...read more
Marco Rubio Wants To Stop the Deadly Ebola Threat In Its Tracks... In A Few Weeks
Senator and 2016 presidential basement-dweller Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has joined the chorus of panicky politicians and media figures, on both sides of the aisle, who are calling for a ban on travel from Ebola-affected west African nations. But Rubio isn't just talking, he is ...read more
The Stand Against Rand: Why the GOP Is Attacking One Of Its Own
If you want to know who has the edge right now in the unofficial race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, just take a look at who's being attacked by other presumptive candidates and party establishment types. Right now, that whipping boy is Rand Paul, who's not ...read more
10 Presidential Hopefuls Get a Rick Perry-Style Makeover
Few things have been quite so insulting to our national intelligence lately than Texas Gov. Rick Perry's "comeback tour." In case you missed it, Perry has been doing the rounds on the media circuit now that there's an immigration crisis on the border with Mexico. It's a thinly ...read more
John Kerry and the Shamefully Servile Way We Talk About Israel
A favorite pastime of American politicians of both parties is grandstanding on behalf of Israel to appease their pro-Israel benefactors. Republican pols, however, have an added incentive to support the Jewish state because a good chunk of their voting base is composed of ...read more
Marco Rubio Is a P*ssy (and Other Tales from the Debt Ceiling Aftermath)
Marco Rubio isn't thinking about what's good for the country at a time like this, nor is he even thinking as far as the 2016 general election for president that he hopes to win -- all he's thinking about is securing the 2016 Republican nomination. And that's why he's taking ...read more
And We Return to the Crazy Wing
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) thinks President Obama needs to be "spanked" and that his "magic wand should be taken away." What? He's had a magic wand all this time? Shouldn't he have used that to get some legislation passed? Watch the madness here: Meanwhile, up in ...read more