RUBIO TO SKIP VOTE FOR DHS FUNDING BILL BLOCKING OBAMA AMNESTY TO TEST PRESIDENTIAL WATERS IN NH

Breitbart ^ | 20 Feb 2015 | MATTHEW BOYLE

[SoConPubbie]

Rubio To Skip Vote For DHS Funding Bill Blocking Obama Amnesty To Test Presidential Waters In NH

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by Matthew Boyle20 Feb 2015Washington, DC0

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) will miss a crucial vote in the U.S. Senate next week. Senate Republicans will try to break the Democrat filibuster of a House-passed bill that funds the entire Department of Homeland Security (DHS) but blocks funding for President Obama’s executive amnesty. Rubio will miss the vote because he’ll be in New Hampshire, testing the waters for a potential presidential campaign.

“Rubio will be in New Hampshire early next week, where he’s going to miss at least one vote in the Senate on the DHS deadlock,” Politico’s Burgess Everett wrote on Friday morning in the tip sheet email by Politico, Huddle.

Rubio’s spokesman Alex Conant confirms that Rubio will miss the vote, since he doesn’t expect it to pass.

“Yes, he’s expected to miss the same procedural vote on Monday afternoon that he’s already cast several times already and we know will not pass,” Conant said in an email to Breitbart News.

It’s not unusual for presidential candidates to miss Senate votes. Senator Rubio has not made a final decision about 2016, but he’s seriously considering running for president and taking the necessary steps to prepare a competitive campaign.

As he travels the country meeting with voters, there will be no doubt where he stands on any important issues before the Senate. Regarding the underlying issue: Marco does not and will not support a clean DHS funding bill that does not repeal the Presidents unconstitutional executive order on immigration.

[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[9thLife]

o how convenient.

[Ray76]

Jeb’s protege is a wuss.

[ridesthemiles]

Rubio & all of his staff & handlers should re-think all of this:

1. The presidential election isn’t for another 20+++++ months.

2. New Hampshire isn’t going anywhere. It will still be there after this coming week.

3. Other candidates will make mincemeat of him on any future campaign efforts IF he deliberately missed this vote. They will be able to bring up this absence again & again.

4. Not having enough spine to stand up NOW & let the American voter know what his position on AMNESTY REALLY is, makes us very wary of such a candidate.

5. The border has been more than just porous for Mexicans. MS-13 has flooded this country already & Muslims are also crossing our southern borders.

Rubio is proving himself to be a coward when the chips are down.

He has already lost MY vote with these actions.

[tumblindice]

skipping the vote to test the waters

A real GOP-e profile in courage.

[RKBA Democrat]

Looks like we know his priorities....

[GeronL]

Rubio doesn’t want to look like he is anti-Obama I guess

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

Guess I’ll see if I can “miss voting” for Rubio for the same reason that he can just walk away from Senate votes.

“We already know it’s a loser, so why bother.”

Bullllll..........

[timestax]

ping

[vmivol00]

Rubio only cares about Rubio. He is the definition of an empty suit.

[zeestephen]

Has Rubio publicly stated how he would vote if he was there?

[zeestephen]

Sorry...

He did make a public statement - that DHS should not be shut down.

I should have clicked through and read the whole article.

There is no way I will EVER vote for this guy.

He helped write the 2013 Gang of Eight Amnesty.

Instant, PERMANENT disqualification on that fact alone.

[chris37]

I can’t wait to vote against you, Marky.

[trisham]

He’s wasting his time.

[tioga]

This is a chicken move. Stand like a m an and vote.

[Covenantor]

You’re too kind.

I’m trying to remember how a Cuban friend of mine referred to such as Rubio.

Oh yeah... Gusano along with a string of dirty Spanish words.

Enjoy the winter sports up in NH senor Rubio, you’re already skating on thin ice.

[freepersup]

Coward!

noun
1.
a person who lacks courage in facing danger, difficulty, opposition, pain, etc.; a timid or easily intimidated person.

adjective
2.
lacking courage; very fearful or timid.

3.
proceeding from or expressive of fear or timidity: a coward cry.

Origin
1175-1225; Middle English < Old French couard-, couart cowardly, equivalent to coue tail (< Latin cauda) + -art -ard

Synonyms
1.
craven, poltroon, dastard, recreant, milksop.

[Yogafist]

Don’t forget, Obama used Marco’s amnesty bill, and the fact the House wouldn’t vote on it as part of his excuse to provide amnesty via executive action. Obama would have been in a much more difficult position if he was not able to claim there was a bipartisan bill passed by the Senate but blocked by the Tea Party. Thanks again Marco. Seriously, I’m not convinced this guy is competent in his current position, why would anyone give him more responsibility?

[uncitizen]

Coward!

[uncitizen]

You’re so right! His picture should be in the dictionary right next to the term “empty suit”.