Posted on 02/18/2015 3:50:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has officially caved to President Barack Obamas executive amnesty, another immigration fail for the once-promising potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate.
During a visit to Las Vegas, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio said Wednesday Congress should pass a bill to fund Homeland Security without conditions, essentially stepping back from a battle with President Barack Obama over his executive actions on immigration, the Las Vegas Review Journal reports. The possible Republican presidential candidate said national security is too important to hold up funding, although he disagrees with Obamas moves to go around Congress to halt deportations of up to 5 million undocumented immigrants.
We have to fund Homeland Security, Rubio said in a press conference there. We cant let Homeland Security shut down.
Rubio was the face of the Senates Gang of Eight amnesty bill in the last Congress, a bill that passed the Senate thanks, in large part, to his efforts to push Republicans to support it. Rubio took a dive in the polls because of his efforts to get the amnesty bill through Congressand specifically the fact he misled many in order to get it passed....
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Once a Gang of 8 member...
I suppose he might be trying to look moderate because he thinks the Texas ruling will hold and the funding battle would be moot, but if so the optics are pretty damn clumsy.
Homeland Security is a giant boondoggle. They can’t/won’t stop illegals (and terrorists) from coming over the border but I have to take my shoes off and unpack my carry on just to board a plane.
Rubio doesn’t want to be President.
As much as Jeb Bush sucks (and he does), he held the line against Primary seat belt enforcement in Florida.
As soon as Bush left, this degenerate twerp Rubio as head of the Florida House conspired with “Governor” Charlie Crist to pass a law that allows cops to stop and ticket drivers for not wearing a seatbelt.
I knew then that this guy was NOT a conservative and COULD NOT BE TRUSTED.
The sad thing is that he will probably be in the Senate for another 42 years.
Wet noodle spine. Pure politician. CYA, CYA, CYA, all the way.
His only job is to deliver FL to Walker.
Walker’s not in the Senate and is not officially running for POTUS.
Fail.
To my knowledge, nobody’s filed, and only Governors can sign on to the 26-state lawsuit, not Senators. Maybe Walker knew how Hanen would rule and saw no need to join.
You know he just cant help himself it in his DNA
Assuming(unlikely) that McConnell should want to use the traditional 51 votes for a spending bill, rather than the 60 votes that he wimped out to as soon as he got the gavel...
All they need is one more DIABLO to defect...Or maybe one already has.... Who will it be?
Good, then he won't be disappointed!
The headline is an outright lie.
Rubio has championed amnesty in speeches to Spanish speaking audiences since the very start of his political career.
He can’t abandon a position he never held.
True.
Rubio was always a fraud, but this is especially egregious: critical personnel continue to work through a government shutdown anyway.
He is so stupid that he should join bernie sanders as an independent (communist).
Rubio is like a so called Russian separatist .. Trying to lay claim to some credit and reward he will never get. obama’s ISIS will behead him like the whore of Babylone.
Rubio is done and so is Rand. Both messed up supporting Amnesty.
His job better not be to let Grayson take over for him.
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