Monthly Archives: February 2016

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.@kevinnro‘s paragraph on all the great things Pres. Rubio would do that make up for immigration is especially weak natl.re/fjy7js

| 9 years ago on Twitter

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Krikorian: Rubio is an “Angela Merkel Republican” natl.re/hbSDHB

| 9 years ago on Twitter

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Rubio Delusion Syndrome: @KevinNR actually says Rubio wldn’t want 2 sign amnesty bill if Cong sent him one. Insane natl.re/MZr718

| 9 years ago on Twitter

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“SO I POINTED OUT A FEW TIMES …” Fox darling Rubio now fundraising off alleged media conspiracy against him. Something ironic there?

| 9 years ago on Twitter

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Increasingly it’s only SUVs and pickups made in US. And if gas prices rise again, UAW decimated again? on.wsj.com/1W2AgOx

| 9 years ago on Twitter

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New UAW deal means more assembly jobs go to Mexico. Current UAW members do fine. Other Americans, not so much on.wsj.com/1W2AgOx

| 9 years ago on Twitter

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Which team is Ari Fleischer on again?

| 9 years ago on Twitter

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A campaign about “nothing”: It seems the chances that Marco Rubio’s ‘secure the border first’ position isn’t fake aren’t as bad as I thought. They’re worse. As previously noted, on the stump Rubio says that “nothing” will happen, in his scheme, until the border is “secure”. It sounds like nothing means nothing — no “temporary” or “provisional” or “probationary” legalization, no work permits, etc. for the current illegal population. But wait …. Ed Martin’s excellent compendium of Rubio immigration deception notes that Rubio has used the “nothing” phrase before–when defending the Gang of 8 amnesty bill to Rush Limbaugh:

The seminal moment of [Rubio’s] media tour occurred early, on Rush Limbaugh’s show. He declared: “if there is not language in this bill that guarantees that nothing else will happen unless these enforcement mechanisms are in place, I won’t support it.” [E.A.]

Hmm. The Gang of 8 bill did feature–prominently– a near immediate “provisional” mass legalization (including work permits) before enforcement mechanisms were in place, and Rubio supported the bill. So we have a reaonably good idea what “nothing,” in Rubio’s hands, means. It means the Gang of 8.  It may rule out a permanent resolution of the path to citizenship question until the border is “secure” (whatever that word means). But it doesn’t rule out Gang-of-8-style insta-legalization on some theoretically impermanent basis. And that’s all it would take for the La Raza & Co to start its inevitable campaign to knock out the new enforcement mechanisms. since everyone would know “provisional” amnesty will not in practice be overturned.

Turns out “nothing” doesn’t mean “nothing.” It’s just one of the words Rubio uses to con the GOP base.

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WANTED: Self-deprecating I-am-a-robot joke, stat. Contact Alex Conant at #Goldenboydamagecontrol

| 9 years ago on Twitter

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Tim Scott, 2d hardest hit

| 9 years ago on Twitter

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Fox’s Adam Sharp initially suggests that heavy tweeting about Rubio is good news for him. @BretBaier, to his credit, corrects him.

| 9 years ago on Twitter

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Is that hinge-like creaking sound you hear the allegiance of donors/Fox/K Street shifting from goldenboy Marco 2 the man from the past (Jeb)

| 9 years ago on Twitter

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If you say so! Apologies. Assumed was canned because you were talking about an old issue (mosque visit) & not debate twitter.com/greggutfeld/st…

| 9 years ago on Twitter

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Really? @abcnews shows Rubio’s family in the audience? Do all candidates get that or only MSM favorites? Had to be preplanned.

| 9 years ago on Twitter

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Immigration #1 search topic even though it didn’t come up that much–@jonkarl

| 9 years ago on Twitter

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Trump now seems like the calm one.

| 9 years ago on Twitter

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Martha Raddatz going to run out the clock on this sucker? …

| 9 years ago on Twitter

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Donald Trump’s Immigration Message May Resound in New Hampshire nyti.ms/1UQ7BvK

| 9 years ago on Twitter