CIA and USAID: The Comic Explainer

Based upon CIA and USAID by The Conservative Treehouse.

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Rubio's Munich Speech: The Graphic Novel

"Magnificent... echoes of Kennedy and Reagan..."

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MARK LEVIN: Dimwit Republicans Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio Ignoring the Real Election Interference

By S. Noble

During a discussion with Sean Hannity on his show last night, Mark Levin picked up the one critical fact everyone seems to be missing or ignoring about Andrew McCabe and the Russia story.

The lawyer, radio, and television superstar first explained that the person who colluded with the Russians was Barack Obama. Levin blasted Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio for worrying about “bad cop” Andrew McCabe losing his pension. He is not losing his pension.

REVEALED: Soros Money Led Directly to Passage of Senate "Gang of Eight" Amnesty Bill

By Chuck Ross

Left-wing billionaire George Soros’ non-profit network, the Open Society Foundations (OSF), is confident about the future success of its work in the field of immigration activism and may embark on a massive campaign on immigration issues in the near future.

That’s according to a candid 62-page document reviewing OSF’s work on immigration reform discussed in May at the group’s board meeting in Montgomery, Ala.

The document, which is one of 2,500 stolen from OSF in a massive hack and released over the weekend, shows that the Soros group believes that its $7.7 million investment in groups pushing for immigration reform was responsible for the passage of the Senate’s 2013 comprehensive immigration reform bill.

Unless Someone Gets To 1,237 Delegates, The Republican Convention Is Going To Be A Giant Mess

By Michael Snyder

2016 is turning out to be the strangest election season that we have seen in decades, and it may soon get far stranger. At this point, most people assume that Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee, and without a doubt he has had a tremendous amount of success. But because most of the states so far have apportioned delegates proportionally, Trump only has 44.8 percent of the delegates that have been awarded up to this point. So Trump is going to have to do significantly better through the rest of the process in order to get to the magic number of 1,237 delegates, especially since not all of the delegates are awarded through the primaries and caucuses. As Real Clear Politics has detailed, every state “is awarded so-called ‘RNC delegates,’ who are party officials with automatic credentials to the convention“.

DEAR GOPe: Unite Behind Ted Cruz --- Or Die.

That's the message David French has for the GOP establishment:

Here’s what the math says: John Kasich and Marco Rubio, you have no hope of becoming the GOP nominee. Even if you win your home states, the only thing that will do is maintain the four-person dynamic under which Trump thrives. Even if you are fortunate enough to work cooperatively to deny Trump an absolute majority of delegates, do either of you — in your right mind — believe that a convention dominated by Trump and Cruz delegates is going to unite behind you? They’d sooner riot (and I’m only partially joking).

We’ve given the multi-candidate “blind ambition tour” exactly 23 states and one territory to work, and here’s the score: Trump 15, Cruz 7, Rubio 2, and Kasich . . . zero. I think that’s a sufficient sample size. Let’s try something else...

Marco Rubio Has a Second Amendment Problem

By Tim Macy

When Marco Rubio was a local commissioner in Florida in 1999, he voted to ban guns from local parks.

Now, politicians make mistakes. And honest politicians “fess up” and move on.

Rubio's problem is that, when Senator Ted Cruz called attention to Rubio's anti-gun vote, Marco’s response was to call Cruz a “liar.” This was part of a larger narrative in which Donald Trump and Rubio were hurling “pants on fire” insults at Cruz.

But when Rubio disavowed his 1999 anti-gun vote -- falsely accusing Ted Cruz of Rubio's own sins -- he made a serious mistake.

DISPLACED DISNEY WORKERS: Shame on You, Marco Rubio

By Julia Hahn

At Donald Trump’s Sunday rally at Madison City Stadium, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)’s own constituents—two displaced Disney workers—publicly denounced Rubio for prioritizing the interests of his big business donors over the interests of his own constituents.

Dena Moore and Leo Perrero were two Disney workers who were informed that they were going to be laid off during the holiday season of 2014. They—along with scores of their colleagues—were told that before they were let go, they’d be forced to train their low-skilled foreign replacements brought in on H-1B visas. Earlier this week, Perrero testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the humiliation he was forced to endure by training his foreign replacement. While Donald Trump has called on Disney to hire back all of these workers and has pledged to end H-1B job theft as President, Sen. Marco Rubio has pushed to expand the controversial H-1B program—he has introduced two bills that would dramatically boost the issuances of H-1Bs. As recently as last year, Rubio introduced a bill—endorsed by Disney’s CEO Bob Iger via his immigration lobbying firm—that would triple the issuances of H-1Bs. Disney is one of Sen. Rubio’s top financial backers—having donated more than $2 million according to Open Secrets.

LETTER FROM A READER: A Cruz-Rubio Ticket

Dear Influential Conservative Blogger [Ed.: Heh.],

Perhaps the best chance we have for the Presidential election 2016 is not Donald Trump, but rather a ticket with Ted Cruz for President and Marco Rubio for Vice President. I believe their combined poll ratings are higher than those of Trump.

Ted Cruz for President can be contacted at https://www.tedcruz.org/contact/.

The campaign's phone number is 713-353-4330.

If Ted Cruz is still in the race after Super Tuesday, but has not yet made Rubio his running mate, his campaign can be reached by snail mail at:

PO Box 25376
Houston, TX 77265

Regards, A.S.
 

IN ONE WORD: Why Rubio Can't Win

By CR Wire

Tonight on his radio program, Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin explained why Marco Rubio is running to lose, the way he’s conducting his campaign.

Listen:

Marco Rubio will not win the Republican nomination because of one word: amnesty.

Rubio’s record as senator, his record as a pro-amnesty Republican, will prevent him from beating Donald Trump outright, Levin says.

The Rubio strategy, Levin says, appears to be destroy Ted Cruz, run for second place, and then try to win a brokered convention. This strategy gives Trump a free ride to victory.

And so, Levin argues, Rubio is playing spoiler for conservatism in this race.   

Read more at Conservative Review.
 

MARK LEVIN: It's Time for Marco Rubio to Stop Lying

By Mark R. Levin

A little while back, I argued that Marco Rubio's tactics in attacking Ted Cruz's Senate record on immigration and national defense, among other things, were Alinskyite.  They were and still are simply and demonstrably dishonest.  Yet he persists, knowing full well that by the time the truth catches up with him, if ever, the damage will have been done.  More recently, Rubio and his campaign team have intensified and broadened their Alinskyite tactics, now focusing on the ultimate personal smear -- that Ted Cruz is a serial liar.  Even in this, Rubio is not original.  Of course, Donald Trump has been calling his opponents liars as an almost Tourette's-like response against anyone who reminds him of his past but recent support for leftists and leftist causes, some of whom and which he still embraces. 

But Rubio's smears are part of a more deliberative and unrelenting propaganda campaign. They are now at the core of his campaign effort to dislodge Cruz and clear the field against Trump. 

NATION'S IMMIGRATION OFFICERS: Rubio Betrayed Us... and America

By Julia Hahn

In an exclusive Q&A with Breitbart News, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council President Chris Crane provides never-before-heard details about the 2013 Gang of Eight immigration fight that are likely to shake up an already tumultuous presidential race.

ICE Council President, Crane represents the nation’s approximately 5,800 frontline ICE officers, agents and personnel who are responsible for enforcing America’s immigration laws in all 50 states and U.S. territories. For the first time ever, Crane details his behind-the-scenes interactions with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as Crane sought to protect the nation’s ICE officers and national security.

Crane was integral to stopping Sen. Rubio’s amnesty plan from passing the House—which, as Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) recently explained, “was a near-run thing.”

In his responses, Crane addresses an incident—first detailed by Breitbart News— in which Marco Rubio stood idly by as Crane was ejected from a Gang of Eight press conference for trying to ask a question on behalf of law enforcement.

AN OPEN LETTER TO TED CRUZ: It's Obama, Stupid

By Dan Friedman

Dear Senator Cruz:

Whatever your strategy has been up until now, your problem is conventional political wisdom, which is always conventional but too often unwise. The reflexive response advocated by your "campaign professionals" to tilt at every canard that's aimed at you is worse than a waste of time, it's falling into the trap they have set for you. Unfortunately, the way things work nowadays, every public riposte only sells your competitors' product. Frankly, that’s a hack PR approach to politics.

Just look at the results of yesterday's South Carolina primary. The "establishment" has found their stalking horse - destroyer of hopes and ambitions - and Rubio is going to be breathing down your neck until the nominating convention.

Senator, this is the moment to turn your ship around and head to calmer waters and more productive fishing grounds.

Our nation and our world has suffered under almost 8 years of Obama's oppressive regime. If there's anything approaching a common denominator among Americans, it's that Obama has been a catastrophic failure - and anyone who doesn’t agree will never vote for you under any circumstances.

It's time you built your campaign around the simple idea that you are the only candidate in the race with the principles, political skills and intellectual depth to retrace Obama's steps, roll back his damage, put the genie back in the bottle and get America back on track again.

Senator, you need to reposition yourself. The hour is late, but not too late to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Please start today.

Sincerely,

Dan Friedman
NYC
 

REMEMBER: A Vote for Rubio or Bush is a vote for Trump

This is why:

This is why a vote for #Rubio or #Bush in #SC #GOP is a vote for #Trump. #Clemson #Gamecocks pic.twitter.com/rT4B8hYjic

— J. Christian Adams (@ElectionLawCtr) February 20, 2016

As Ace noted earlier:

TRULY PATHETIC: Marco Rubio Caught in Numerous, Obvious Lies While Attacking Breitbart.com

Marco Rubio spent the morning on Fox News ripping into the highly-trafficked Breitbart website for its exclusive interview with ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) Council President Chris Crane.

In the article ("On Eve of SC Vote, Nation's ICE Officers Detail Rubio's Betrayal"), Crane illustrates Rubio's sellout of the American people to the open borders crowd, including the government of Mexico, Chuck Schumer, La Raza, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Crane's descriptions depict the Beltway insider virus at its very worst.

So you'll never guess how Rubio responded to Crane's incredibly accurate description of Rubio's treasonous activities.

MARCO RUBIO: I 'Absolutely' Support Tuition Breaks For Illegal Aliens

By Julia Hahn

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is doubling down on his support for in-state tuition for illegal aliens.

On ABC, George Stephanopoulos asked Rubio about his work in the Florida statehouse in which he “co-sponsored legislation to provide in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants.” Stephanopolous asked Rubio directly: “Do you stand behind that position now?”

Rubio said that he “absolutely” stands behind that legislation:

OH, MY: Ted Cruz Takes Lead in Major National Poll

Please: no one tell Mr. Trump. He'll freak out, turn orange, and accuse the pollsters of lying.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has surpassed Donald Trump for the top spot in a new national survey of the Republican presidential race from NBC News/Wall Street Journal.

Cruz leads the poll with the support of 28 percent of those surveyed, followed by Trump at 26 percent, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at 17 percent, Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 11 percent, and Ben Carson at 10 percent.

Trump dropped seven percentage points since last month, and hit his lowest point in the NBC/WSJ poll since October 2015 when Carson took the top spot. Cruz and Kasich each gained eight percentage points since January, the largest improvement of any candidate, and received their highest level of support ever in the poll.

"When you see a number this different, it means you might be right on top of a shift in the campaign," said Bill McInturff, who conducted the survey with a Democratic pollster on behalf of Hart Research Associates, to NBC.

This is just a single poll, to be sure. But one can only hope and pray that a man grounded in the Constitution since his youth can attain the presidency.

Say your prayers, my friends.


Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News>.
 

NUMBERS USA: All of the Presidential Candidates' Report Cards on Immigration and Amnesty

Numbers USA is the nation's largest grassroots immigration-reduction organization, which was founded as a result of two national commissions, including President Clinton's Task Force on Population and Consumption.

NUSA issues Worker-Protection Immigration Grade Cards for each of the presidential candidates.

The results are in:

A Plague of Liars

Another keeper by summer intern @BiffSpackle:

MAGNUS CRUZ: Robot Fighter

It would appear that our summer intern, @BiffSpackle, has been dipping into the mushrooms again.

In case you missed it, the backstory is here.