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Rick Santorum Makes His Move on Mitt Romney in Polls

February 9, 2012 - 6:00pm

Following his sweep of contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri on Tuesday, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has rocketed in the race for the GOP nomination -- and drawn increased fire from his rivals.

The Santorum campaign has accelerated its fundraising pace. Starting on Wednesday, the team behind the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania brought in more than $2.4 million in funds by Friday afternoon.

Santorum is also making a move in the polls.

Rubio: Great Obama Changed on HHS Mandate but Health-Care Law Needs to Go

Submitted by Kevin Derby on February 10, 2012 - 1:13pm

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has been one of the leading critics of the Department of Health and Human Services' mandate that employers must provide birth-control coverage -- even companies affiliated with religious institutions opposed to birth control.

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Santorum Does Better than Romney Against Obama in Florida Poll

Submitted by Kevin Derby on February 10, 2012 - 1:00pm

Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania may have come in third place in the Florida Republican presidential primary but a new poll shows that he is doing better against President Barack Obama than former Gov. Mitt Romney in the Sunshine State.

A Rasmussen Reports of likely voters in Florida, released on Friday, finds Santorum in a dead heat with Obama. The Democrat incumbent takes 47 percent with Santorum right behind him with 46 percent. Four percent back other candidates while 4 percent are undecided.

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Marco Rubio and Bob Casey Take on Bashar al-Assad

Submitted by Kevin Derby on February 10, 2012 - 12:52pm

From his perch on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Florida Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio reached out across the aisle to U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, Jr., D-Pa., to introduce a resolution calling for Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad to step down and for the Obama administration to help efforts to bring democracy to that nation.

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Connie Mack Continues to Go to Bat for Mitt Romney

Submitted by Kevin Derby on February 10, 2012 - 12:43pm

Florida U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, who is running for the Republican nomination to run against Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012, continues to carry water for GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.

Mack, who was out front and center in Romneys big win in the Florida primary at the end of January, continued to back his presidential candidate on Friday when he spoke on the Martha Zoller show on WXKT-FM in Atlanta.

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Like Lincoln, Barack Obama Tried to Build a Team of Rivals -- With Far Different Results

Kevin Derby

February 9, 2012 - 6:00pm

With Sunday marking the 203rd anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, the time seems ripe to re-examine how Barack Obama tried to copy that presidents playbook in staffing his administration.

Obama Giving In on Catholic Birth-Control Rule, AP Says

Submitted by Anonymous on February 10, 2012 - 11:59am

The Associated Press, citing sources, said President Barack Obama is planning a speech at 12:15 p.m. Friday to announce a revision of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' ruling that all large employers must provide comprehensive birth-control coverage to women, including Catholic organizations.

The Jan. 20 ruling sparked an uproar among Catholic bishops, who had letters bitterly critical of the matter read at Masses on Sunday in churches around the country.

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Tax E-Commerce Companies? Don't Do It

Submitted by Nancy Smith on February 10, 2012 - 11:37am

In case you missed John Sununu's column in The Boston Globe on the wrong-headedness of states taxing e-commerce companies -- and the sheer arrogance of giant predators like Walmart to demand it, check it out here.

And pay close attention, Florida.

Some of the Sunshine State's biggest guns are doing the big-boxer's bidding, promoting an Internet sales tax this legislative session.

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Obama a Big-Government Liberal? Who'd Suggest It?

Submitted by Anonymous on February 10, 2012 - 10:41am

An otherwise fairly good piece this morning from the Miami Herald's McClatchy about the Obama administration's assault on the Catholic Church's opposition to contraception and abortion contains one unfortunate paragraph that would be funny if it weren't so illuminating in how most of this country's media outlets see Obama, Republicans and, most importantly, voters at the beginning of an election year:

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Mitt Romney Continues to Attack Rick Santorum

Submitted by Kevin Derby on February 10, 2012 - 10:37am

The team behind Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney continues to pound primary rival Rick Santorum on earmarks.

Senator Santorum now decries the obscene growth in federal spending and our national debt, but he was in Washington as this fiscal crisis grew -- supporting billions in earmarks, repeatedly voting to raise the debt ceiling, and admitting that deficits no longer bothered him, Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said Friday. Americans want a president who can offer solutions, not a lifelong politician who was part of the problem in the first place.

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