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Finally given an opportunity to illustrate all their die warnings about the sequester's draconian cuts, the Democrats wimp out and join the GOP to target alleviating hardships for the nation's travelers. Never mind Head Start or any of the other programs being gutted and affecting poor people and children.

Torn between the Tea Party and his ambitions, Marco Rubio asks the Senate to down immigration legislation – a move that could kill the first comprehensive immigration reform in a generation.

lllinois GOP split on VAWA in surprising ways: Aaron Schock was a major sponsor, Peter Roskam changed his mind.

The controversial leader of the Illinois Republican Party has now cancelled a major fundraiser as he waits to find out whether party bosses will fire him following his public support of same-sex marriage.

The opposition response to the SOTU -- an indulgence by the media since 1966 -- has become an "American Idol" type tryout for presidential aspirants, and barely acknowledges the speech it's supposed to be responding to. Rubio's speech sounded sometimes as if he hadn't even heard Obama's.

It doesn't matter what the Supreme Court said or how the voters voted. The GOP's obsession with repealing Obamacare goes on. In South Carolina, they're trying to criminalize implementing the law.

Republican Congressman Aaron Schock of Peoria says he's considering a run for Illinois governor.