Marco Rubio has been getting savaged by Republicans since he voted with the majority of Democrats in the Senate (and 13 other of his GOP colleagues) for the immigration reform bill that passed last week. Not only did he get tweaked in a Sarah Palin tweet, but there's now a recall effort against him that will no doubt go nowhere, but is indicative that Tea Party Nation is not happy with their former Golden Child.
Rubio is thinking seriously of running for the GOP nomination for president in 2016, as is Jeb Bush. Both are on the same page in terms of comprehensive immigration reform, but the question is - are they too far away from what the base of the party thinks?
Bush has co-penned an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal with Clint Bolick, entitled "A Republican Case for Immigration Reform." But if you watched some of the House Republicans interviewed on television yesterday, there is definitely resistance to the Senate bill, to say the least. Bush & Bolick say the Senate bill can be improved, and list some specific provisions they believe would enhance the bill.
Last year Bush said that his father and Ronald Reagan would have a hard time in today's GOP. With his outspoken support for immigration reform, might Jeb himself have a difficult time if he decides to run in 2016? Something to contemplate.
This Edward Snowden thing is not going away. Now officials with the European Union are pissed at the U.S. after it was reported this weekend that U.S. intelligence agents bugged EU offices on both sides of the Atlantic. Meanwhile Julian Assange of WikiLeaks was on ABC yesterday blasting Joe Biden for asking the Ecuador president to reject Snowden's request for asylum.
And late Friday we posted some interesting quotes made from last Thursday night's mayoral debate in St. Petersburg.