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South Florida Sun-Sentinel To Sen. Marco Rubio: Do Your Job Or Resign

Sen. Marco Rubio recently shared with the Washington Post that he was “frustrated” serving in the U.S. Senate.

Today, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel published an editorial telling Rubio, frustrated or not, he needs to spend more time doing the job Floridians sent him there to do.

Sorry, senator, but Floridians sent you to Washington to do a job. We’ve got serious problems with clogged highways, eroding beaches, flat Social Security checks and people who want to shut down the government.

If you hate your job, senator, follow the honorable lead of House Speaker John Boehner and resign it.

Let us elect someone who wants to be there and earn an honest dollar for an honest day’s work. Don’t leave us without one of our two representatives in the Senate for the next 15 months or so.

You are paid $174,000 per year to represent us, to fight for us, to solve our problems. Plus you take a $10,000 federal subsidy — declined by some in the Senate — to participate in one of the Obamacare health plans, though you are a big critic of Obamacare.

You are ripping us off, senator.

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Your job is to represent Floridians in the Senate.

Either do your job, Sen. Rubio, or resign it.

U.S. Senators are paid $174,000 a year. In addition, Rubio takes a federal subsidy to participate in Obamacare to the tune of $10,000.

Rubio has missed over 60 Senate votes, in part because he’s busy campaigning for the GOP presidential nomination.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, by comparison, has been campaigning for the Democratic nomination and only missed 10 votes in the Senate.

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A Third Poll Shows Ben Carson Leading Trump In Iowa

Retired Ben Carson now tops a third poll in Iowa as Donald Trump’s once dominant lead has evaporated.

A new poll via Monmouth University shows Carson during to a 14 point lead at 32% while The Donald falls 5 points from last month’s poll to only 18% support.

The new survey shows Carson with the highest favorability ratings in the current field of GOP contenders with 84% approval. Trump clocks in with only 53% favorability. While that’s virtually unchanged over the month, his unfavorability rating has gone up by 5 points.

This is now the third recent poll to show Carson with a healthy lead over the field in the Hawkeye State.

A Des Moines Register-Bloomberg poll released last week showed Carson with a 9 point lead, which led Trump to call the Register “crummy, third-rate newspaper.”

Plus, the most recent Quinnipiac University survey show Carson ahead by 8.

(source)

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Ben Carson Takes The Lead From Donald Trump In National Poll

Dr. Ben Carson

For the first time, Ben Carson has taken a narrow lead nationally in the Republican presidential campaign, bumping Donald Trump to the number two spot for the first time in months, according to a New York Times/CBS News survey released on Tuesday.

According to the new poll results, Mr. Carson garnered 26 percent of Republican primary voters, while Mr. Trump now holds support from 22 percent.

The survey is the first time that Mr. Trump has not led all candidates since the end of July.

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida clocked in at 8%, while former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive, received % of GOP primary voters.

(source)

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Legendary Newsman Dan Rather On Hillary Clinton & The Benghazi Hearing

Legendary journalist Dan Rather posted this on Facebook regarding Hillary Clinton’s testimony this week at a Congressional hearing investigating the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi:

Hillary Clinton has done a lot in her life. But I think she likely cleared her path to the Democratic nomination for president, and maybe very well the Oval Office itself, by what she didn’t do. She didn’t lose her cool.

Her performance in a grueling marathon of a Congressional hearing on Benghazi (or more accurately on Clinton herself and maybe Sidney Blumenthal?) was one of poise, stoicism, self-confidence and maturity. Just the sort of attributes her questioners lacked. In the language of poker, she was drawing aces and the committee was drawing deuces. They might not admit it publicly, but even many Republican leaders know it’s true. Hillary Clinton is a stronger general election candidate today than she was before the hearing.

It has often been said that you vote for president with your heart more than your head. And I think for all the questions about Clinton’s record among the Democratic base, whether she is progressive enough on economic issues or too hawkish on foreign policy, the real sense of unease boiled down to intangible questions about her personality, values and character.

Yesterday assuaged many of those concerns. When combined with her recent debate performance and Biden deciding not to run, this is arguably one of the best stretches of her political career. Where are all those whither Hillary articles now? It is still early and a lot can still go wrong, but I believe this is the Hillary Clinton that so many Democrats wanted to love – tough, smart, unflappable, a woman who is ready to be president.

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CNBC Announces Third GOP Debate Line-Up

CNBC has revealed the candidates who made the main stage for next week’s GOP debate.

Barely breaking into the top ten are Rand Paul, John Kasich, and Chris Christie.

Still lounging at the kids’ table that night will be Rick Santorum, Lindsey Graham, Bobby Jindal, and George Pataki.

You have to wonder what at least half of these players think will happen that would suddenly vault them up to the top at this point…

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Donald Trump Goes After Jeb & George Bush On 9/11 Attacks

This little trifle began with an interview Donald Trump did earlier this week with Bloomberg.

Trump said, “When you talk about George Bush – I mean, say what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his time…He was president, OK? … Blame him or don’t blame him, but he was president. The World Trade Center came down during his reign.”

And so, the Twitter war began:

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Donald Trump Wins In His Debate Demands To CNBC

Yesterday, Carson and Trump informed CNBC in a letter that the length of the debate should be restricted.

A letter from both front runners’ campaign read, “Neither Mr. Trump or Dr. Carson will participate in your debate if it is longer than 120 minutes including commercials and does not include opening and closing statements.”

Trump complained that CNN’s three hour length was “milking” the debate so CNN could sell more ads.

As you can see from Trump’s tweet this morning, CNBC bowed to his wishes.

Other candidates, like Carly Fiorina, pushed for more time saying with 10 candidates it’s hard to get any appreciable exposure.

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Second Republican Admits Benghazi Committee Aimed At Bringing Hillary Clinton Down

Rep. Richard Hanna of New Yor

A few weeks ago, House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy accidentally revealed that the GOP focus of the congressional committee “investigating” the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi is actually on bringing down Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy.

Now, another GOP lawmaker, Rep. Richard Hanna of Central New York, has admitted the same during a radio interview.

Via Syracuse.com:

“This may not be politically correct, but I think that there was a big part of this investigation that was designed to go after people – an individual: Hillary Clinton,” Hanna said in a live interview with Utica radio station WIBX (950 AM).

Clinton’s campaign responded, “Yet another House Republican has admitted the House Select Committee on Benghazi is a politically motivated sham intended to damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.”

In September, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talked about the success of the committee’s investigation in hurting Clinton’s poll numbers. McCarthy later said he misspoke.

A former staffer for the Benghazi committee came forward this past weekend and claimed that the panel’s chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., fired him for not keeping the investigation focused on Clinton.

“Kevin McCarthy basically blew himself up with that comment over the Benghazi committee,” Hanna said, adding, “Sometimes the biggest sin you can commit in D.C. is to tell the truth.”

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Woman Who ‘Trumped’ Donald Trump At No Labels Convention Volunteers For Jeb Bush

At a bipartisan convention called the No Labels Problem Solver Convention yesterday, Donald Trump got a very direct question about his views on women from college student Lauren Batchelder.

“So, maybe I’m wrong, maybe you can prove me wrong,” said Lauren Batchelder, a student at St. Anselm College in Manchester. “But I don’t think you’re a friend to women.”

Trump launched into his defense, one that he has given a lot lately as he faces accusations that he doesn’t treat women with respect. Trump said he gave women positions of power at his construction sites “many years ago… before anyone would have even thought” to put women in such jobs. Trump complimented his wife, eldest daughter and mother, who he said “was one of the great people of the world.” He promised to “take care of women” and stated: “I love women, I respect women, I cherish women.”

Batchelder listened with her arms folded, face in a scowl. She then finished asking her question: “If you become president, will a woman make the same as a man, and do I get to choose what I do with my body?”

After the crowd cheered, Trump answered quickly and curtly: “You’re going to make the same if you do as good of a job, and I happen to be pro-life, okay?” Batchelder listened, her hands now on her hips.

As Trump supporters googled Batchelder’s name, they found a resume listing “intern at Jeb Bush for President 2016” and a Twitter feed containing pro-Bush tweets. Daniel Scavino Jr., a senior adviser to Trump, accused Bush of having “planted” an intern at the event.

The Tea People are, of course, out of their minds. And Trump took to the Twitterverse to tweak his rival, Jeb Bush:

Note how if you ask a tough question of Trump, you become “arrogant.”

A spokeswoman for Bush’s campaign, Allie Brandenburger, said Batchelder is not a paid staff member and made the decision to attend the convention on her own.

“While this question was not sanctioned by the campaign,” Brandenburger said via e-mail Tuesday morning, “we can’t help but notice Mr. Trump does seem to be very sensitive about being challenged by women.”

Bush’s main spokesman, Tim Miller, took to Twitter to flatly deny the Bush campaign had anything to do with the encounter:

Apparently, Batchelder has now deleted her Twitter account.

Watch the confrontation below via CNN:

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Fake GOP Candidate Beats Jeb Bush In New Hampshire Straw Poll

You really have to watch the “campaign ad” below. Brilliant.

From TIME:

Played by actor Frank Ridley, Fulbright is a mock-candidate who skewers typical politicians for Represent.us, a nonpartisan group that is pushing for campaign finance reform. He’s not even on the ballot anywhere.

But after he gave a stump speech cracking jokes about Republican candidates at the libertarian Republican Liberty Caucus’s national convention in Nashua, Fulbright beat some of them in the straw poll.

“Face it, I am a puppet for special interests and lobbyists,” Fulbright said. “And I will break any campaign promises that rub my donors the wrong way.”

Fulbright picked up a dozen votes, putting him way behind Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who won with 445 votes, according to the New Hampshire Union Leader. But that was still ahead of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and former New York Gov. George Pataki.