{"id":9116,"date":"2011-04-01T13:38:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T17:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9116"},"modified":"2011-04-01T13:38:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T17:38:03","slug":"rubio-charts-own-course-with-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9116\/rubio-charts-own-course-with-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio Charts Own Course with Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freshman Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) is taking a much more traditional approach than colleague Rand Paul (R-KY) when it comes to proving his Tea Party credentials.\u00a0 Paul continues to thumb his nose at the GOP establishment by founding the Senate\u2019s Tea Party caucus, and feeding speculation he <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/onpolitics\/post\/2011\/03\/rand-paul-2012-presidential-race-tea-party-\/1\" target=\"_blank\">may run for president in 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio didn\u2019t join the Senate Tea Partiers, and until recently has been publicly silent about his immediate intentions.\u00a0 That changed with a recent column in the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-04-01\/rubio-s-demands-signal-tea-party-may-not-bend-on-raising-u-s-debt-limit.html?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=Heritage%2BHotsheet\" target=\"_blank\">demanding major budget changes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Paul is building a national brand while Rubio focuses on few \u2013 but profound \u2013 policy statements.\u00a0 In an age of 24 hour media, Rubio\u2019s statesmanlike approach could be an indication of very good things to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freshman Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) is taking a much more traditional approach than colleague Rand Paul (R-KY) when it comes to proving his Tea Party credentials.\u00a0 Paul continues to thumb his nose at the GOP establishment by founding the Senate\u2019s Tea Party caucus, and feeding speculation he may run for president in 2012. Rubio didn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[841,70,928,59,1275,352,669,38,28],"class_list":["post-9116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-elections","tag-budget","tag-conservative","tag-deficit","tag-fiscal-responsibility","tag-marco-rubio","tag-rand-paul","tag-senate","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9118,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116\/revisions\/9118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}