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Rubio Aide: 'There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it'

Politico's Playbook has an excerpt from a new Ryan Lizza piece from the New Yorker that is not yet online. It contains a passage on the back-and-forth between labor and the Chamber that has a quote from a Rubio staffer that is going to raise eyebrows, to say the least: "There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it. Show More Summary

Menendez Warns that Without Legal Status for Immigrants, ‘There Will Never Be a Road to the White House’ for GOP

Gang of Eight member Bob Menendez (D., N.J.) advised Republicans to accept legalization status for current illegal immigrants if they ever want to see another president from their party. "I would tell my Republican colleagues -- both...Show More Summary

Ponnuru: Obama Says He Welcomes NSA Debate, Yet Kept Program a Secret and May Prosecute Snowden

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Confirmation Bias in Action

In an article about Jeff Flake's and Joe Heck's disgusting children, Jeremy Stahl of Slate writes: "When bad Democratic kids behave badly, they’re way more likely to drive 100 mph while drunk than to say the president chucks spears.Show More Summary

Will's Words of Wisdom on Immigration

On ABC's This Week, George Will said the only way he sees immigration reform passing is if Congress is given the authority to secure the border rather than the executive branch. Along with benefits, the border is part of the "killerShow More Summary

Cheney: Congressional Leadership Said No Need for Additional NSA Authorization

On Fox News Sunday this morning, former vice president Dick Cheney went into considerable detail about how Congress examined and "in effect signed off" on the NSA's telephone-data-monitoring program -- and said they turned down the idea of more aggressive oversight. Show More Summary

Jeb Bush: ‘Split Ballot’ Among My Parents if I Should Run

Even though his mother doesn't want him run for president in 2016, Jeb Bush suggested his dad thinks otherwise. "I think we've got a split ballot amongst the Bush senior family," he said in an interview for ABC's This Week. "I'm pretty sure that's the case." In April, his mother, Barbara, told the Today show that she would prefer her son didn't run. Show More Summary

Graham: GOP in ‘Demographic Death Spiral,’ Needs to Pass Immigration

?Senator Lindsey Graham is more optimistic than many of his Senate colleagues over comphreshive immigration reform. "I think we're going to get plus-70 votes," Graham said on Meet the Press this morning. "I've never been more optimistic...Show More Summary

Rubio: Obama’s Inaction on Syria ‘Left Us With the Worst Possible Scenario’

Senator Marco Rubio criticized the Obama administration's lack of action on the Syria conflict over the past two years and said it made the situation in the region much worse. "I think the fact that it's taken this White House and this...Show More Summary

Asked Whether Snowden’s a Traitor, McDonough Says Wait for the Investigation

When asked by Fox News's Chris Wallace this morning whether NSA leaker Edward Snowden was a traitor -- as former vice president Dick Cheney labeled him this morning -- White House chief of staff Denis McDonough adoped one of the Obama...Show More Summary

Cheney Speculates Snowden Could Be Chinese Spy, Had Help Inside the NSA

Former vice president Dick Cheney said this morning he suspects that Edward Snowden may not have leaked the information he did on his own. Cheney said that he was surprised that Snowden "in his capacity as a contractor" had access to the information he released. Show More Summary

Number of Non-Intel Committee Congressmen Who Examine NSA Programs: ‘Zero’

Bart Gellman, the journalist who revealed some of the NSA's surveilance operations in the Washington Post recently, detailed how members of Congress go about monitoring the NSA's classified operations: They don't. Since the programsShow More Summary

Rubio: ‘95, 96 Percent’ of Immigration Bill is ‘Perfect’

Despite speculation that he was wavering on the bill, Marco Rubio now says that that the current immigration reform bill is nearly "perfect." "I think 95, 96 percent of the bill is in perfect shape and ready to go," Rubio told This Week,...Show More Summary

Rove: Snowden Told Us Nothing New, But ‘I Want Him Prosecuted’

The Fox News Sunday panel this morning agreed that the programs revealed by NSA leaker Edward Snowden -- the agency's collection of phone-records data -- were already fairly well-known and reported in the media before the recent leak, but former Bush adviser Karl Rover still wants him tried for disclosing the classified information. Show More Summary

House Intel Chair: Snowden ‘Betrayed His Country, and He Should Be Treated Just Like That’

House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Rogers (R., Mich.) pushed back against claims that Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker, is either a whistleblower or a hero. "I think he has betrayed his country and he should be treated just like...Show More Summary

Cheney: Congress ‘In Effect Signed Off On’ NSA Spying

Vice President Dick Cheney explained this morning how the recently revealed NSA data-monitoring program was originally authorized. He explained that, "when we set up this program back in ’01," former director of the National Security Agency Michael Hayden brought the proposed operation to him and discussed it with him in the vice president's office. Show More Summary

Cheney: ‘I Don’t Pay a Lot of Attention to What Barack Obama Says’

Dick Cheney said this morning that "it's good" the executive branch is still running counterterrorism surveillance operations, but he's decidedly disappointed with how the president has talked about them and defended them. The president...Show More Summary

Palin Slams Gang of Eight, Warns of ‘Perhaps Armed IRS Agents’ Implementing Obamacare

Sarah Palin pushed back against Jeb Bush’s argument that decreased fertility rates in the United States meant that immigration reform was necessary. “I say this as someone who’s kind of fertile herself,” the mother of five told attendees at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Conference today. Show More Summary

Late to the Party

Nice to see my friends on the right finally waking up to what the National Security Agency has been up to, but it comes as no surprise to readers of my "Devlin" books, which chronicle the exploits of an extremely disaffected NSA/CSSShow More Summary