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
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 bottle ...read more
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
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
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
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 a ...read more
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
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
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 intention ...read more
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
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
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 Britain, ...read more
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 verge ...read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 taxation. ...read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 incentive ...read more
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
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
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
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 I ...read more
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
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 to ...read more
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
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
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 search ...read more
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
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
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
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
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 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 an ...read more
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
Four years ago, Bobby Jindal delivered the Republican response to President Obama's first State of the Union address. The weirdness of Jindal's address (we must stop magnetic levitation trains and volcano monitoring!) tended to overshadow the fact that, in the immediate wake of ...read more
In what was ostensibly the launch of 'Republicanism 2.0' young guns Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio both gave 'vision' speeches at the Jack Kemp Foundation dinner last week, spelling out their revamped conservatism they hope to sell the American public. Michael Tomasky was not ...read more