{"id":9458,"date":"2011-04-28T16:37:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9458"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:37:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:37:12","slug":"rubio-rand-paul-two-sides-of-the-tea-party-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9458\/rubio-rand-paul-two-sides-of-the-tea-party-coin\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio, Rand Paul: Two Sides of the Tea Party Coin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dyn.politico.com\/printstory.cfm?uuid=93AF54DE-937D-49FD-9296-4DCF5A958D96\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Politico<\/em><\/a> has a revealing article on the different approaches of Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rand Paul (R-KY).\u00a0 Each claims credibility with the Tea Party movement that propelled them past establishment candidates in their respective primaries.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio is developing a reputation as a quiet Capitol Hill operator who still votes his fiscal conservatism.\u00a0 (As evidenced by his opposition to the 2011 budget bill negotiated by GOP leadership.)<\/p>\n<p>Paul is taking his father Rep. Ron Paul\u2019s (R-TX) outsider approach to the insular Senate.\u00a0 Much like Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Paul is scoring points for taking uncompromising stands on spending, even if it angers the Republican leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Both approaches are needed; especially if the Age of Obama stretches into a second term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico has a revealing article on the different approaches of Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rand Paul (R-KY).\u00a0 Each claims credibility with the Tea Party movement that propelled them past establishment candidates in their respective primaries. Rubio is developing a reputation as a quiet Capitol Hill operator who still votes his fiscal conservatism.\u00a0 (As evidenced [&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":[352,2066,669,2632,218,178],"class_list":["post-9458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-marco-rubio","tag-michele-bachmann","tag-rand-paul","tag-republican-establishment","tag-ron-paul","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9458","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=9458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9460,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9458\/revisions\/9460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}