A drinking problem

These are some reader commentaries taken from newspapers from around the country after Marco Rubio rebutted the president’s State of the Union address.

“I sure hope the GOP sticks with their same old tired message. Even Rubio’s fresh (albeit sweaty) face can’t breathe life into this dying agenda. THIS is who they plan to make the face of the GOP in 2016? Please do. Can you imagine this inexperienced, sheepish puppet up against Hillary or Biden?”

“Embarrassingly amateurish! The content was devoid of anything remotely concrete and sadly the same’o same’o.”

“Rubio’s talk was coherent. But the staging was like ‘Amateur Night at the Bijou.’ And, coherence aside, there was not one concrete proposal in it. You could summarize the 12-minute speech with the phrase, ‘We Republicans just want to do good.’ It doesn’t seem that Rubio listened to the President’s speech at all. One example is when he said the President hadn’t offered one specific about how to reform Medicare. … There are other examples that show Rubio’s response was written to rebut what they thought Obama WOULD say, not what he ACTUALLY said.”

“Marquito Rubio is a hypocrite. He’s against the federal government’s largess … [but] his parents were allowed to become U.S. citizens, received federal help getting [a] house loan, [and] received Social Security and Medicare. They were protected by federal anti-discrimination laws; allowed to vote, etc. Marquito Rubio’s entire education from K-12 was partly supported by federal funds; he received a federal loan to attend college – all benefits he is now attempting to eliminate. Let’s end this hypocrite’s federal paycheck.”

“I just keep on going back to something I.F. Stone used to say: ‘Not all conservatives are stupid, but all stupid people are conservative’.”