<http://schema.org/articleBody>
" God, they loved him in Tampa. Marco Rubio (R-Flashinthepan) came out on stage and they screamed and hollered and did everything but throw underwear at him, and even that was a good thing, god knows. He was the New Face Of Republican Politics -- i.e. young and brown. And even when they nominated Willard anyway, and he didn&amp;#039;t pick young Marco to run with him, for reasons I frankly am dying to know about now, and he lost from here to there because the polls were skewed or something, Marco was the big weapon they still had in reserve for the purposes of The Great Rebranding. And that was only a year ago last month. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) now opposes a bicameral conference committee to reach a final resolution to the Senate-passed bill, his spokesman said, arguing that the support is not there for a comprehensive overhaul and that Congress should act where there is consensus. &amp;quot;The point is that at this time, the only approach that has a realistic chance of success is to focus on those aspects of reform on which there is consensus through a series of individual bills,&amp;quot; Alex Conant, a top spokesman for Rubio, told TPM in an email. &amp;quot;Otherwise, this latest effort to make progress on immigration will meet the same fate as previous efforts: failure.&amp;quot; Rubio previously had not addressed the issue of conference on the Senate bill. But the senator&amp;#039;s stance against it now is an ominous sign for reform because anxious pro-reform advocatesbelieve it is the only feasible way to salvage a sweeping overhaul. There is no bipartisan consensus on immigration reform without a path to citizenship for the 11 million people living in the country illegally. The House Republican majority opposes such a provision. Proponents hadhoped the House would approve smaller, piecemeal bills and move to initiate a conference committee to reconcile the chambers&amp;#039; differences -- the normal legislative process. Conservatives quickly saw the strategy as a ploy to enact &amp;quot;amnesty&amp;quot; and moved to close the door on conference. And what does he get for all this crawling back to the gossoons in the Krazee Kaucus? He gets to get kicked around by Rich (Sparkle Pants) Lowry. Look. He&amp;#039;s crossing the lawn again. Does he see the rake? Are you kidding? Whap. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a25400/marco-rubio-immigration-reform-scaling-back-102813/>