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Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's (R) healthcare speech drew quick support from fellow Bay State Sen. Scott Brown (R), who called Romney's defense of the state's healthcare plan "courageous." Brown, who's up for reelection in the typically Democratic state next fall, offered Romney political reinforcement following the former governor's highly anticipated healthcare speech on Thursday. "Governor Romney showed a lot of courage today by standing his ground on the reforms he put in place in Massachusetts," Brown said in a statement. "What he did as governor worked for Massachusetts by getting health insurance to more people."

Sen. John McCain denounced “advanced interrogation” methods like waterboarding Wednesday amid a growing debate over its effectiveness reopened by the killing of Osama bin Laden. McCain told reporters leaving an intelligence briefing for senators by CIA director Leon Panetta that he has seen no information so far to indicate that techniques like waterboarding factored significantly in the information gathering that led to bin Laden’s death. “So far I know of no information that was obtained, that would have been useful, by ‘advanced interrogation.’ In fact, according to published reports … some of the key people who knew about this courrier...

I'm sick of Karl Rove acting like he gets to choose our Nominee, and derailing candidates he doesn't like. He is just like the elitists on the Democratic side that think they know better than us and must protect us from ourselves, ie, choosing the wrong candidate. Now he's calling a Trump a "Joke Candidate", frankly, I'm glad Trump is saying and doing what he is doing. As far as I'm concerned, Rove is an enemy of Freedom, who acts as though he's some kind of king maker, he disgusts me. There are feel better now, I now return you...