Josh Barro, Columnist

This Is the Republican Party’s Savior?

February 13, 2013 at 5:49 AM UTC

Josh Barro is the lead writer for the Ticker, Bloomberg View's blog on economics, finance and politics. His primary areas of interest include tax and fiscal policy, state and local government, and planning and land use. Previously, Barro was a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and a commercial real estate banker at Wells Fargo. He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Harvard and lives in Queens, New York.

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Time magazine says Senator Marco Rubio is going to save the Republican Party. It's wrong.

The response Rubio gave to President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech offered little that was new or interesting. It consisted mostly of lines that could have come from any Republican politician, at any time in the last four years.