Posted on 09/30/2015 7:42:45 AM PDT by conservativejoy
GOP primary contenders Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) 80%and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)47%skipped a critical cloture vote that allowed Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) 52%’s plan to fund the government, including Planned Parenthood, to move forward without risking a shutdown. That means Rubio and Graham, for whatever reason, skipped a key vote that would have shown where their allegiances lie regarding funding for the highly controversial abortion provider, which, based on recent undercover video investigations, is in the business of selling aborted baby body parts to the highest bidder.
The vote succeeded 77 to 19 without Rubio or Graham’s help, thanks to every Democrat in the U.S. Senate voting for McConnell’s Continuing Resolution (CR). But Rubio and Graham skipped the vote that matters; cloture is the only place where McConnell and his allies in the Democratic conference could be stopped. So both can claim on the presidential campaign trail how pro-life they are all they want, but when push came to shove–when the pro-life community needed them most–they were not there.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)96% and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)93%, on the other hand, were present and voted “no.” Cruz did so with extraordinary criticisms of GOP leadership, including McConnell.
“Notice how much energy Majority Leader McConnell devotes to attacking conservatives? Notice how much energy Speaker Boehner devotes to attacking conservatives?” Cruz said on the Senate floor on Monday evening in a scathing speech about leadership, in which he accused McConnell and Boehner of cutting a deal with the Democrats–about the worst possible thing they could have done.
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Rubio, the almost always absent representative.
He did not vote NO.
The more I see and learn about Rubio the less I like.
To me, this is a stunner. How could he be running in a race to the WH to change America to a good and free place once again by pulling this kind of stuff?
There should be some kind of Constitutional rule that if a Senator doesn’t vote....it reverts to the governor of a state and he gets a chance to vote instead of the Senator.
With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?
I didn’t know that. He comes across like a smooth character, but the more I learn about him the less I like.
To me, as far as Rubio is concerned, fugeddabouddit.
Same here. I only slightly liked him initially when he came on the scene in Florida. Since he entered the national race, he's shown his true colors.
He was in that gang of eight BS to sabotage conservative positions and we were supposed to forget.
I'd bet if you docked their pay, they would vote. Of course it might be "present" like the community organizer did.
What you said!
“Present”? He’s a gutless RINO squish.
It got Bambi elected in Illinois and as President TWICE!
Rubio can’t even vote on an issue important to Americans?
Why would Americans want to vote for him?
That poly only fools Obama voters. He did not have to vote. It had enough votes to pass. If needed, he would have voted Aye.
I think he is your typical slick politician attempting to be the latino savior for republicans before Pete Bush gets here.
Exactly, skipping this vote was essentially voting in favor of funding planned parenthood, because we needed every NO vote to show up.
Or, to reference Ted Cruz’s statement from the floor:
Rubio was not available to provide a “second” to the Cruz Amendment that will defund PP.
There is no Republican party.
There is the Conservative Party
There is the Liberal Party
There is the Socialist Party (who are really Marxists in disguise)
And here is the rub. The Conservative Party can win elections without the faux Republicans, or in this case Liberals. But the Liberals cannot win without the Conservatives.
“To me, this is a stunner. How could he be running in a race to the WH to change America to a good and free place once again by pulling this kind of stuff?”
Someone’s advising him that poor latina voters need lots of women’s “health services”, and won’t believe that PP doesn’t provide mammograms, because PP allegedly REFERS them to those that do.
If SCUM-RINO Rubio KNEW he would avoid critical votes,
and that he would HELP Oboma with his SECRET Treaties,
why did he take someone else’s place.
Answer: the money and to make his family and staff
EXEMPT, above all others.
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