Posted on 09/29/2015 3:19:28 PM PDT by JustaCowgirl
GOP primary contenders Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Lindsey Graham skipped a critical cloture vote that allowed Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell’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. ........
Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, 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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Mark Kirk is the only Republican Senator that supports funding planned partenthood. Rubs and even Linda are 100% pro-life, whether they want to shut down the Government or not.
Our new Republican President, be it Cruz or Rubs or Fifi or Trump will end the funding.
Since JEB! cannot get there, Rubio is the next GOPe in line
Doesn’t matter. He’s paid to attend meetings and cast votes. His attendance record is poor as well.
Trump will have a field day with this.
And why is Rubio a Senator if he is not present when he needs to be?
Yep...Trump’s already been going after this *clown*....for good reason. It’ll just get better ;-)
NO GUTS!!!
Only if he runs as a Democrat!
I wouldn’t put it past him to try.
It won’t work, he wouldn’t win, but he is stupid enough to try it.
Rubio just said on Hannity that 75% of the Republican party does not support Trump, so he is at the very least not very honest.
Rubio also looks like a snotty nose kid that needs a good spanking
fixed
It was 77-19......those are incredible numbers for a vote. Rubio and Linda were not needed. I remember when Cruz missed votes.....excuses all over the place for him.
He’s studied the works of President “Present-dent” Obama.
Trump is right. Rubio never shows up for work to do anything. And taxpayers have to keep on paying these blood sucking ticks for doing nothing. Just call him Marco Obama from now on, another worthless senator who never shows up for work.
I disagree...he pretended to be a Tea Party candidate long enough to get elected.
agree
Rubio appears to be what we used to call A WUSS!!
I’m going to respectfully disagree or at least defend my point here. And who knows which of us is right.
It’s easy to see Rubio had the ILLUSION of promise, because we can say that literally about pretty much every single person, or every single Republican in Congress. And yes, I guess unfortunately for many, even the large majority of them, it did wind up being a mere illusion.
However, I don’t know if he just used the Tea Party for his goals of getting elected or not. Maybe he did.
But what caught my eye with Marco Rubio initially was this was a guy who wrote a letter (open or otherwise) to President Obama when we were coming up on one of our debt ceiling showdowns. As a matter of fact, I found the letter, or an article sharing the text of it.
http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/marco-rubio-calls-out-obama-debt-ceiling
That was in January of 2012. To me, it showed the toughness and the spine, as well as the conviction to state and make a stand in a way we would want any Republican or any conservative to do, so long as they back up those words and stick to those convictions.
Now, maybe that was a ploy. Maybe it was legitimate and he’s fell since then. Certainly this was before any Gang of 8 or any other Marco screw ups afterward.
So I would say he had promise if those are the kinds of things he actually believed and was willing to fight for. But unfortunately today fighting is something he’s not very keen on actually doing. Not for our causes and not for the betterment of the nation anyway.
“Certainly this was before any Gang of 8 or any other Marco screw ups afterward.”
That Gang of Eight adventure wasn’t a screw-up, that was the real Marco Rubio. It was part of his pattern.
Marco Rubio already recorded a long history of opposing efforts to deal with illegals from back when he was in the Florida government.
He’s a la Raza Republican who puts his ethnic group first. He’s unfit for high office.
Well as an Ohioan, I’ll plead ignorance on his in state Florida record before coming to Congress.
My point was he at least took a stand back then in 2012, seemingly, to want to see us face our fiscal demons. That was more than pretty much any Republican in Washington was doing, publically or otherwise.
But, as I said, his in state Florida record and stances isn’t anything I ever looked at.
And obviously whatever he did or said, or wrote that was great in the past has faded away under the mounds of “stuff” since.
But as far as Rubio goes, the economy and immigration are linked - and not in the way that conservatives do; he believes the illegals are good for the economy. Personally, I believe he wants to believe they are because as Pelham said, he puts his ethnicity before the Country.
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