Coming in this week's New Yorker: GETTING TO MAYBE: Inside the Gang of Eight's immigration deal. pic.twitter.com/fmFP6uGA0W
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) June 16, 2013
All 8 Senate offices cooperated extensively w/my Gang of Eight piece in New Yorker. And 7 of 8 senators granted lengthy interviews.
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) June 16, 2013
good to know, per playbook, that marco rubio's office has contempt for american workers
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) June 16, 2013
per playbook, frm new ryan lizza piece:"‘There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it,’a Rubio aide told me"
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) June 16, 2013
More marco rubio staff: "There shouldn’t be a presumption that every American worker is a star performer." 1/2
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) June 16, 2013
"There are people who just can’t get it, can’t do it, don’t want to do it. And so you can’t obviously discuss that publicly." 2/2
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) June 16, 2013
is rubio aware that his website still touts bill as the “toughest immigration enforcement measures in the history of the United States”?
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) June 16, 2013
More of the inherent weaknesses of Team Marco are being revealed every day.
That is, IF you are paying attention. (Like me.)
Sounds to me like the anonymous Rubio staffer quoted here,
http://www.politico.com/playbook/0613/playbook10932.html?hp=l6
is talking about Overtown, Liberty City, Opa-Locka and Carol City and Miami Gardens and large swaths of Fort Lauderdale to me.
Do Reps. Frederica Wilson and Alcee Hastings agree with this assessment of their constituents?
Too bad for this country and this state that so many Florida-based reporters and columnists are in-the-bag for Rubio, even those who disagree with him philosophically or politically.
They continually pull their punches and don't challenge him enough -just like they pull their punches for almost everyone else, too.
That used to be called gutless, but now called "new normal" in American journalism.
As many of you regular readers of the blog may recall, while I lived and worked in Washington for 15 years, I always thought that Tim Russert was very over-rated and very fortunate to be a top dog in an era where there were so many no-talent journalists in the Washington Beltway who were more publicist than journalist, people who carried water for policies, not honestly examine them.
Still, despite my feelings about him, I'm 100% certain that the late host of NBC News 'Meet the Press" would've absolutely humbled Marco Rubio and brought him down a few pegs the past few weeks as the immigration debate has once again become one of the main issues in D.C. now that the Beltway media have decided amongst themselves that the the Benghazi and IRS scandals don't really matter since they would require lots of legwork during the hot D.C. summer.
I think Russert would've positively undressed Rubio like a storefront mannequin by running one of those incisive video sequences he was so noted for that would show Rubio's recent penchant for flip-flopping in ways that would be hard to get out of your head.
He'd then come back from the videos with a LIVE interview and ask, "When will you be changing your mind again? And will you be just as certain then as you were this week and last month that you were right, right before you changed your mind?"
It's the bell that isn't ringing, that punch that nobody in DC seems interested or willing to deliver to Rubio's glass jaw, which is absolutely frustrating the hell out of me, especially given Rubio's very pious comments about his role and his comments about how necessary it is that all of the 11 million illegals get to stay.
Where's the proof that they should ALL stay, especially the ones that aren't interested in becoming citizens?
Shouldn't we able to make some distinctions?
Like the ones that Mickey Kaus talked about?
Serial drunk drivers!
S.N.S.M.A.D.D. http://t.co/9xpCPRwBLS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 14, 2013
http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/13/the-secret-dui-factor/
So why is Rubio so mum about other supporters of S.744 saying they think requiring people to be able to speak and understand basic English before becoming a U.S. citizen, as he would require, is a bridge too far?
Nobody even asks him!
What kind of people think THAT common sense requirement is unreasonable?
Since you asked, the very people and groups who are constantly emailing the Miami Herald, Tampa Bay Times and the Orlando Sentinel and being quoted there, which are then picked-up and run on TV station websites.
Still, say what you will about how contemptuous Rubio's staff may be, they can't be worse than the many unprofessional female staffers Connie Mack III had for years while he was Florida's junior senator, who would order beauty and health supplies for themselves over the main telephone in the front reception room while you waited to see someone.
Retin A anyone?
ABC has gone out of its way to present balanced discussion of Gang8 bill. There's a Senate supporter, House supporter & fmr Gov. supporter.
— Byron York (@ByronYork) June 16, 2013
