Rubio the seer, circa 2015
I remember how upset I was with Obama’s Iran deal; I wrote quite a bit about it at the time. But one thing I didn’t notice back then was Marco Rubio’s speech on the occasion. It’s worth looking at now – short but impressively prescient:
Rubio said he was speaking for history. Well, it’s over ten years later, and now he’s in a position to do something about it.
Great find.
Rubio’s a rare breed in the Senate – articulate enough to clearly convey his thinking without excessive verbiage, and obviously well-educated in current events, and not bamboozled by ‘progressive’ flummery. And he’s only improved since that delivery, and now performs as one of the best Sec State individuals in US history.
Noem replaced at DHS with Mullin.
Following up on Richard Cook’s post about Noem being moved out of DHS: I for one was very much put off by her incessant advertising of her riding her horse in the country, always talking about Trump, but always with a “look at me” overtone. I was never sure who she was talking up: Trump or herself. It was, AFAIK, a first for a cabinet secretary.
the jcpoa, I covered how that was marketed on my old blog, with analysis by david samuels, who unmasked it in the interview with ben rhodes, this was robert malley’s proposal, that wendy sherman and kerry sold, omri ceren one of ted cruz’s advisors now, was another source, the deal was staked, in the Trump first term, but it seems the bones of it, was resurrected under the auto pen, with malley and blinken, along with other figures,
it was to secure the Russians cooperation that many senators including air claire
visited the embassy, then there was heal turn, and all of a sudden the Russians became the enemy, part of that botched peregruska, the soft opposition to Assad, was also a part of that,
there was some skepticism that as chairman of the foreign relations committee, he had humored the Danchenko maskirovna, that was Burr enabled Mark Warner, to do,
About the Kristi Noem situation? Matt Margolis updates and backgrounds us at pjmedia.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/03/05/is-preparing-to-fire-dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-n4950287