Monthly Archives: January 2016

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RNC goes full Arafat: Arguably Diaz-Balart’s Spanish version, not Haley’s, gives the real RNC position on amnesty thkpr.gs/3738927

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If Diaz-Balart wants 2 give a pro-amnesty speech OK. Something weird abt giving identical speech w/ this one change thkpr.gs/3738927

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It was v-effective but it was a conventional victim’s umbrage moment. Not what we want to encourage more of. twitter.com/RichLowry/stat…

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Tribe seems 2 B saying that ONLY a “living constitutionalist” could decide Cruz is a “natural born citizen.’ Really? bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/0…

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Twitter Moments: “GOP candidates clash over amnesty, welfare reform” Welfare reform? No. Deport Twitter Moments twitter.com/i/moments/6877…

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Akhil Amar: Congress (maybe controlled by Dems) will decided Cruz’s eligibility after election. So no cloud then! cnn.it/2301PNZ

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Something smug and glib about Akhil Amar’s arguments that makes them less persuasive than maybe they should be cnn.it/2301PNZ

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Rubio in 2013: “We should really be very cautious about using language that links these two things in any way” twitter.com/AnnCoulter/sta…

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19 The $15 Million Question

It’s odd that WaPo put out it’s story on Marco Rubio’s coke-dealing brother in law on New Year’s Eve. It’s odder that the story focuses on Rubio’s recommendation of his convicted relative (Orlando Cicilia) for a post-prison real estate license — but doesn’t mention the destruction of records angle in Ann Bardach’s earlier Politico piece, which seems potentially more damaging to Rubio. From Bardach:

According to never-before-reported documents shown to Politico, federal case files related to Orlando Cicilia’s narcotics conviction were destroyed three days before the court acted on the Univision request for them in July 2011. A spokesperson for the federal courts said the documents were “destroyed in accordance with the record schedule,” and that it was just a coincidental “matter of timing” that Univision was pursuing the story.

P.S.: The most damaging angle, I think, is suggested in the following pregnant WaPo paragraph:

Rubio also declined to say whether he or his family received financial assistance from Cicilia, who was convicted in a high-profile 1989 trial of distributing $15 million worth of cocaine. The federal government seized Cicilia’s home; the money has never been found.

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Trump catches a break from foolish DC operatives washex.am/1Q5stQb

| 10 years ago on Twitter