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To: JohnM who wrote (245272)	2/22/2014 1:15:53 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542233

From Mike Allen. -------------------------- 2016 - JONATHAN CHAIT, "The National Interest" column in Monday's issue of New York magazine, "How the GOP sabotaged Marco Rubio: The party elders who thought they were enlisting him as the Republican savior were instead making him its martyr": "We can now, in hindsight, identify last February as the apex of the Rubio bubble. Over the next few months, conservatives shook off Rubio's charm offensive and whipped themselves into a familiar frenzy against his immigration-reform plan. ... The cumulative humiliations have transformed the former party savior into a figure himself in need of saving. ... Conservatives liked the sound of Rubio's immigration plan, but it could not survive legislative contact with the enemy. Compromising on immigration means handing a legislative accomplishment to Obama, a taboo that dwarfs any ideological commitments." facebook.com

To: JohnM who wrote (245272)	2/22/2014 1:18:10 PM
From: Metacomet	Respond to of 542233

Ya think that one of the unintended consequences of Citizens United might be the reduction in the number of paid lobbyists cause now they can just give the bribes to the pols directly..