The Not-So-Marvelous Marco’s Lame Messaging Game

I seriously do not know who is writing Marco Rubio’s press releases and emails, but they are among the worst I’ve seen this year in politics. They’re horrible.  Pure inside-the-beltway pabulum and hype.  No wonder the GOP establishment is gravitating towards him now that Jeb! is tanking. For example, somebody allegedly named “Joe Pounder” sent […]

Defending Rubio’s defense of U.S. sugar farmers

James Bovard’s recent USA Today column attacking Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) support of U.S. sugar policy is built on the false assumptions that a global free market in sugar exists and that supporting U.S. farmers is at odds with being conservative. Every sugar-producing country in the world subsidizes its sugar industry with policies that are […]