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Video: Marco Rubio's Drinking Problem

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Kragar2/12/2013 10:25:21 pm PST

Marco Rubio’s long drink of water dominates rebuttal speech coverage

Rising GOP start Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) fell victim to the long-standing Obama rebuttal curse tonight, as he awkwardly reached for a drink of water from an off-camera bottle mid-speech.

“In the short time I’ve been here in Washington, nothing has frustrated me more than false choices like the ones the President laid out tonight,” Rubio said. He then reached for a water bottle and drank while staring at the camera, then continued. “The choice isn’t just between big government or big business.”

It led to a moment of levity for many in an otherwise uninspiring speech that focused on the importance of small government and the President’s supposed plan to increase the size of government (with no acknowledgment that President George W. Bush led the largest expansion of the federal government since World War II).