Marco Rubio hates his Senate job, he says. This is why he’s not doing it. He has missed nearly 60 votes while he’s been off running for president.
Now the Miami Sun-Sentinel is telling him to resign. The Sun-Sentinel is behind a subscription firewall, but here’s the editorial from Balloon Juice:
Rubio has missed more votes than any other senator this year. His seat is regularly empty for floor votes, committee meetings and intelligence briefings. He says he’s MIA from his J-O-B because he finds it frustrating and wants to be president, instead.
“I’m not missing votes because I’m on vacation,†he told CNN on Sunday. “I’m running for president so that the votes they take in the Senate are actually meaningful again.â€
Sorry, senator, but Floridians sent you to Washington to do a job. We’ve got serious problems with clogged highways, eroding beaches, flat Social Security checks and people who want to shut down the government.
If you hate your job, senator, follow the honorable lead of House Speaker John Boehner and resign it.
Let us elect someone who wants to be there and earn an honest dollar for an honest day’s work. Don’t leave us without one of our two representatives in the Senate for the next 15 months or so.
You are paid $174,000 per year to represent us, to fight for us, to solve our problems. Plus you take a $10,000 federal subsidy — declined by some in the Senate — to participate in one of the Obamacare health plans, though you are a big critic of Obamacare.
You are ripping us off, senator.
That’ll turn up in a campaign ad sooner or later.
The most recent national poll of Republican primary voters has Dr. Dementia in first place and Trump second, followed by Rubio. Jeb! is fourth, followed by the rest of the mutts in no important order. I have heard Jeb! is more worried by Rubio than by Dr. D or Mr. T, reasoning that the two outsider candidates will crash and burn sooner or later. Rubio is doing well in the betting market right now in the assumption that he’s in the best position to move into Number One when that happens.
However, neither Jeb! nor Rubio look that strong:
Mr. Rubio may be broadly acceptable, but his fund-raising tallies and overall campaign effort have been surprisingly limited. Mr. Kasich may be unacceptable to much of the party’s conservative wing, and his fund-raising isn’t impressive either. Mr. Bush has healthier fund-raising tallies — though apparently not healthy enough to forestall big cuts in his campaign operation — but very weak favorability ratings.
Jeb!’s campaign is arguing that Rubio is the GOP’s Obama — inexperienced senators who are running on charm and ethnic appeal rather than substance. But Brian Beutler argues that he’s really the GOP’s John Edwards, in the sense that he looks like a strong candidate but doesn’t really connect with voters as well as predicted.
Obama’s charisma was key to his appeal in 2008, but so too was the fact that he—as a young, African-American liberal who opposed the war in Iraq—reflected his party’s base better than Hillary Clinton, the anointed front-runner. By this more appropriate standard, the GOP’s Obama will be charismatic, yes—but old and white and nativist instead of young and ethnic and cosmopolitan. That’s Trump….
… Rubio is also making the most shallow appeal of any Republican in the field. The undisguised promise of his candidacy is that his youth and background will allow him to herald an orthodox Republican policy agenda as somehow distinct and visionary.
A Democrat would have to be caught eating live puppies to lose to this guy. Maybe not even then.
“I’m running for president so that the votes they take in the Senate are actually meaningful again.â€
The level of megalomania required to utter that sentence is beyond my comprehension. Everything means nothing unless this 44 year old pipsqueak is elected president, how has our great nation existed for the last 200 plus years?
Great ‘nose to the grindstone’ attitude, there, Mario!
Oh, poor bored didums, Marco.
Good thing you didn’t have to work a tedious factory or other job your whole life, like millions of other current day Americans – and hundreds of millions of people in prior generations, before your conservative pals and cronies started shipping those jobs overseas – eh, you hapless, lazy, stupid, and ignorant bobo?!?!?!
One would have to be clueless stupid fucking imbecile to admit any of this publicly!
And this Marco Rubio douche-canoe, is definitely one of those clueless stupid fucking imbeciles.
This twit, unlike many of the other GOP candidates, wasn’t discovered crawling around under a rock.
He was sleeping next to the rock.
What a Git!!!
Rubio makes me sick. Can we send him back to Cuba? Or wherever he came from? And he is not charming. Another of those devoted public servants (like Kim Davis) who wants the money but doesn’t want to do the job. I am not feeling nice today.
Grandma’s favorite Bible verse sums up my feelings regarding Marco Rubio’s performance in doing his job.
“Blessed are the unexpecting, for they shall not be disappointed.”
Lots of cute ways that the process of campaigning for president is stacked against an outsider. Rubio can draw a salary from campaigning – Lessig has had to sever his relaionship with Harvard and can’t draw a salary from his campaign. Money is no issue for Rubio, Trump or Dr. Frankenstien, who is hawking books. and the sweetie who got a golden parachute to leave HP.
Lessig’s book is available for free on the Internet. HRC isn’t hurting for money. Bernie seems to be doing his job, and he’s not going to miss a mortgage payment. But the deck is stacked against a person who isn’t in government or isn’t flocking rich.
I don’t know who’s pushing the charisma and ethnic appeal comparison between Rubio and Obama…But there is no comparision to be had. Rubio doesn’t even come close. Five minutes after observing Rubio it becomes evident that he’s an empty suit. There is nothing in his persona that would stir an inquisitive mind to want to delve deeper into understanding what this guy is all about.
After watching him get his ears pinned back on his much heralded immigration reform initiative it was obvious he had been trumped up as the GOP saviour without the substance necessary to accomplish the task. He a blowout! Always was,always will be.
Not to go off on a bible tangent.. But Rubio fits the Apostle Paul’s description of the double minded man.. “Tossed about by every wind of doctrine and unstable in all his ways.”
Rubio will always be whatever he thinks you want him to be. He’s got liquid principles. And when it comes to his intellect, what better analysis than saying… Move on, folks, nothing to see here!
Amen to what Swami said!