Posted on 05/23/2013 7:54:20 AM PDT by Qbert
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, whose immigration reform proposal would grant far-reaching powers to the Secretary of Homeland Security and other top administration officials, says he does not trust Washington DC to make critical decisions about the nations future.
Rubio made the comment Wednesday during a debate on the budget and the debt limit. He opposes including an increase in the debt limit in the new budget and wants to make sure that no increase comes out of a House-Senate conference committee. The problem, Rubio said in an impassioned floor speech, is that there has been in the past a bipartisan consensus to increase federal spending, and the debt limit along with it.
What I am concerned about is the regular order of doing things in this city, where the debt limit has been raised consistently, without any conversation about the fact that this government borrows 40 cents out of every dollar that it spends, Rubio said. My concern is that I do not have trust in Washington DC. I dont care whos in charge.
Despite that lack of trust on fiscal issues, Rubio places enormous trust in Washington when it comes to handling immigration. His 867-page reform proposal gives the Secretary of Homeland Security great discretion in maintaining border security, internal enforcement, the legalization of currently illegal immigrants, and dozens of other issues. A quick search reveals that the bill uses the words the Secretary about 1,050 times. Thats a lot of emphasis on Washington, DC.
And even when Rubio proposes to place power outside of Washington as in his proposal to hand over border security to a commission if the Secretary of Homeland Security has not succeeded in enforcing it he still places a lot of trust in Washington. The commission, Rubio has said, is not a Washington commission, made up of congressmen or bureaucrats. Its largely led by the border state governors, who have a vested local interest in ensuring that that border is secure. But Rubios bill specifies that the commission will have ten members, of whom six will be appointed by the president or members of Congress, while the other four will be either the governor of a border state or someone the governor delegates. Even Rubios non-Washington commission would be a mostly Washington commission.
Perhaps in his remarks Wednesday Rubio was referring narrowly to the budget and debt ceiling, and he in fact places great trust in Washington to handle other issues. But Washington has, by general consensus, a terrible record on immigration. In coming weeks, Rubio will have to make the case that Washington should be trusted with broad new powers in handling millions of immigrants even as he makes just the opposite case when it comes to fiscal issues.
Who’s the last one on your poster?
I recognize the other seven but couldn’t fine the name for the last one.
>>> Rubio said. My concern is that I do not have trust in Washington DC. .....
On second reading of the article, Rubio may be right.
He does not earn any trust in Washington DC, either from GOP or Dems. DC insiders had him pegged.
HEY RUBIO! WE DO NOT TRUST YOU!
“Rubio: I do not have trust in Washington DC neither do we.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. — P.J. O’Rourke ...
Never mind, .....
Michael Bennet (D-Colo.)
You don’t trust Wahington.... so let’s give big sis more power. Rube-io is not as smart as some thought.
screw him. He is a democrat next election cycle. just wait.
I do not have any trust in ......... MARIO!!!!!!
Hes the next Arlen Spector.
We should drop phraises like “Washington is broke” (not trustworthy, etc. and adopt phraises that tell the truth: “Washington is dangerous to your life, liberty and happiness” or better still: “Washington is deadly”.
I think I just solved our problem with Washington DC. We send lawyers to do a job that accountants should be doing.
Lawyers will confuse the crap out of you in order for you to believe what they are saying is the truth.
Accountants play by the rules and will tell you that numbers don’t lie
I do not have trust in DC... But I trust Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin.
What a clown.
In my adult political life I can't remember someone maintaining a "presence in betrayal" such as Rubio's lengthy stay in a gang cabal of predominatly evil men who don't have this country's best interests at heart at all.
He's had ample opportunity along the way to disavow his questionable peers in the amnesty-driven gang of eight.
It's probably too late now for him to redeem himself even if he wants to....and he now probably wishes he could, IMO.
The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long....and you burned very, very brightly, Marco.
A pity.
Leni
So why, then Marco, pray tell, are you “trusting” Washington with this STUPID immigration bill you’re pushing on us..
Rubio = Fraud
Trying to set himself up as a Washington outsider. A Demogogue trick-trying to solidify conservative support.
Rubio reminds me of Obama more and more seeing the way he operates. The brazen lies, throwing supporters under the bus, etc., etc.
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