It was up to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to introduce the new Republican Party to the American people after the State of the Union this week, but Jon Stewart said Wednesday that the Florida senator’s performance was, perhaps, “too caliente.”

Jon Stewart on Tuesday wondered why television broadcasters have wasted their bandwidth on former Vice President Dick Cheney, who has made the rounds this week criticizing President Obama. During a recent interview with CBS News, Cheney said Obama entered office with the intention of diminishing the United States’ influence around the world and taking the nation “down a peg.”

Jon Stewart on Wednesday went after the Obama administration for releasing documents related to CIA torture under President Bush, but declining to make public information about the government’s current drone strikes.

Jon Stewart on Tuesday explored what separates liberals from conservatives. Ultimately, “conservatives think government is bad and people are good, unless those people work in government, in which case they, too, are bad,” Stewart said. “But the point is this, then they can leave government and join a lobbying firm, at which point they become good again.” It’s very complicated, he said. With Democrats controlling most of the federal government, “freedom lovers have a plan to carve out a haven of liberty, safe from the liberal tyrants,” Stewart said.