THE WASHINGTON POST
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida got the dubious honor of delivering the Republican rebuttal. Regardless of party affiliation and political ambitions, the person who takes this job deserves everything that's coming to him or her, but also deserves a measure of sympathy.
Pretty much everyone who does it winds up looking like a frightened robot. Amid his pleas for cutting government spending and preserving the Second Amendment, the dry-mouthed senator reached for . . . what is he reaching for? A panic button? A gun? A chart?
It turned out to be a bottle of water that was awkwardly just out of the frame of the camera.
Gulp, gulp, sputter.
