Posted on 02/04/2016 7:27:01 AM PST by jimbo123
Rick Santorum had one job to do in his appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Thursday. He failed.
The former Pennsylvania senator, who dropped his presidential bid Wednesday, told co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski he is supporting Marco Rubio's presidential campaign because the Florida senator is someone "who can work together with people." But Santorum struggled to name one accomplishment Rubio has had in the Senate.
"He's been in the Senate for four years," Scarborough noted. "Can you name his top accomplishment in the Senate - actually working in the Senate doing something that tilted your decision to Marco Rubio?"
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
This be fair no Senator can name an accomplishment. The Senate hasn’t done anything for years.
It would be nice if the next president was clearly an American and didn’t have homosexual tendencies like we’ve had to put up with the past 7 years.
The GOP establishment pushing hard for Rubio right now you just received an endorsement from Matt Salmon which I heard on the radio. He basically had to misrepresent Rubio’s positions in order to justify his endorsement.
Hey Matt, you’re just another GOP establishment sell out.
The democrats had their silver tongued, unaccomplished, inexperienced half black empty suit in 2008, and we have the republican Cuban version in 2016.
He joined the GANG of 8
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428640/rubio-obamacare-direct-hit Rubio deserves serious credit for starting g to kick Obamacare into the death spiral.
He joined the gang of eight. That is an “accomplishment” to some people. Not any of us, but to some people.
Oops, Rick got tricked, but he is a good debater. Republican primary voters don’t require one to be a good debater to be nominated.
Nikki Haley is getting ready to endorse Rubio, too.
Seriously? Does FR have amnesia? Why the sudden turn on Cruz?
1) He shut down the Senate (with a filibuster) for its failure to manage spending. This led to a government shutdown, which we all applauded at the time, and the GOP took the Senate in the next election because Cruz was the only one to show that the GOP was serious about stopping the Democrats. Without this, no one would believe the GOP had any intention of doing anything.
2) He has called out the GOP leadership by name and put them on notice... and on the news. This has led to the GOP having to take him seriously and at least give lip-service to conservatives rather than their preferred method of ignoring them.
3) He had only one bill that was passed by both houses and signed by Obama--but it was a good one. Again, this occurred because he can't be ignored. In April 2014, Cruz introduced legislation to prevent representatives to the United Nations who are believed to be spies or terrorists from entering the country. It was approved unanimously by the House and Senate, and signed into law only weeks after having been introduced.
4) He isn't a do-nothing Senator... In the 113th Congress, Cruz introduced 25 bills, and he’s put forth another 10 so far in the current session. The 25 he introduced last session put him near the middle of the pack of Senate Republicans. He ranked 18th out of the 45 Republicans in the last Senate for most bills introduced.
Of the 25 bills Cruz introduced in the 113th Congress, only two made it through the Senate. However, only three Republican Senators in the last Congress got more than two bills through the upper chamber, making Cruz the fourth most successful in his party.
5) Cruz has a history of breaking with GOP leadership on votes, although it’s not as extreme as one might suppose. In 684 votes spanning his entire time in the Senate, Cruz has bucked party leadership 73 times. The GOPe doesn't do ALL bad things... but when they do, Cruz opposes them.
6) Cruz has given 217 speeches on the floor of the Senate. The last four speeches Cruz gave on the Senate floor came in January in support of a bill to authorize the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline. The 213 floor speeches Cruz gave over the course of the 113th Congress ranked him as the fifth most active Senate floor speaker.
Cruz has trumpeted his high-profile opposition to Democratic initiatives in Congress. “What we’ve accomplished over and over again in many instances is stopping bad things from happening,†Cruz said.
I want him to have real authority to keep doing what is right.
Wow, this won’t matter to Republican primary voters.
What are you, his Mom?!?!
That list is a participation trophy at best.
No one with a recognizable name will touch Cruz with a ten foot pole until Cruzgate settles down. Santorum looked mighty uncomfortable on stage with Trump too. Rubio was his only choice to make.
Damn! The GOPe and MSM have done outstanding work to get conservatives to remember only this. There was much more to it. See my other post to be reminded.
“Cruz fought 9 Conservative causes before the Supreme Ct. and won 5.”
“He took his law firm to one of the top appellate firms in the country
That’s not the senate...”
“In the Senate he fought Obamacare”
So? Lots of people did. They all failed.
“penned many amendments and fought amnesty and per Sessions”
The so-called poison pill amendments that he said were really there to kill the thing...but no one can really tell until long after the fact when he just tells us that’s what they were for?
“He had one bill pass and signed and that was that no terror suspect or spy could be a U.N. rep.”
Oh......um, ok?
“He’s only been there a little over two years...”
So then he decides to just screw off the rest of that term and decide to run for president? Didn’t we knock Obama and Hillary for this?
I can name one of Santorum’s Senate accomplishments — heading up the GOP Senate’s “K Street Project” in which he went around collecting checks from lobbyists to advance their agenda through the GOP Senate.
I saw that article, and hesitated to mention it. How accurate is that website?
The gang joined him. He was pandering to La Raza before there was a gang of eight.
Marco counts it as an "accomplishment" when he makes it for a vote.
I knew what they were for at the time. I was paying attention. Why didn't you? There were plenty of discussions here on FR.
So then he decides to just screw off the rest of that term and decide to run for president? Didn’t we knock Obama and Hillary for this?
No. We knocked Obama and Hillary for using the Senate as nothing but a stepping stone. Obama only voted "present" and Hillary only passed fluff "naming stuff" legislation. Both were only there to fill a square.
Ted has actually been working hard in the Senate on all of the things he promised to do. He has been elevated to a national stature and set up for the presidency through his accomplishments and hard Constitutional stances. Even now, he's still doing his job as a Senator (see my previous post). If he came into the Senate with Presidential aspirations, it doesn't show. However, he's man enough to step up when he's the only one willing to restore the Constitution to its position of prominence.
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