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Rubio insists he isn't being played by Schumer
Politico ^ | 6/16/13 10:38 AM EDT | JENNIFER EPSTEIN

Posted on 06/16/2013 5:33:44 PM PDT by Zhang Fei

Sen. Marco Rubio was dismissive Sunday of some conservatives' concerns that Democrats are taking advantage of him to help pass an immigration bill.

"Immigration reform is something that all Americans recognize has to be done," the Florida Republican said on ABC's "This Week," after being pressed on whether Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is "playing him," as commentator Ann Coulter has claimed.

"I don't focus a lot on public polling, but if you look at these public polls, it's clear the vast majority of Americans understand that what we have in place in this country is de facto amnesty, a broken legal immigration system that needs to be reformed," he said.

That came after Rubio had already offered an even more dismissive answer to host Jon Karl, who asked "Are you being played by the Democrats? Is Chuck Schumer playing you, is essentially the charge?"

Rubio's answer: "I don't -- I quite frankly, I don't even know what that means."

Rubio was also insistent that while some conservatives are opposed to the immigration bill, he agrees with them on "virtually every other issue."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; florida; immigration; rubio; schmuckschemer; schumer
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To: bmwcyle

I feel better. Don’t you?

/s


21 posted on 06/16/2013 5:49:37 PM PDT by volunbeer (We must embrace austerity or austerity will embrace us)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal
I'd be willing to bet Rubio hasn't even read all of the 800 page bill he's pushing for Schumer and Durbin.

Former New York lieutenant governor Betsy McCaughey bets “you can’t find five members of Congress who have read” the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill.

The former Democrat is experienced at reading large bills the Congress seems inclined to pass without reading, such as Obamacare. She tabs them, underlines them and tries to see the big picture of what will happen if the provisions of the bill are implemented.

In an interview with The Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas, McCaughey brought her dog-eared immigration bill with her and pointed to it repeatedly

22 posted on 06/16/2013 5:50:11 PM PDT by Baynative (Lord, keep one hand on my shoulder and the other over my mouth.)
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To: volunbeer

Overjoyed /s


23 posted on 06/16/2013 5:50:30 PM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Zhang Fei

One idiot in a roomfull of idiots does not make him a genius.


24 posted on 06/16/2013 5:51:46 PM PDT by DeWalt
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To: headstamp 2

That commercial with Paul Ryan in it? I can’t stand hearing the lies. I have to turn it off.


25 posted on 06/16/2013 5:52:47 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: depressed in 06
Schumer is the most despicable member of Congress.

I beg to differ. Schumer is working to get Democrats elected and sticking it to the American people. Rubio was elected to prevent that from happening. Who's worse - Charles Cornwallis (Schumer) or Benedict Arnold (Rubio)?

26 posted on 06/16/2013 5:55:18 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Like a drum, Marco; like a drum.


27 posted on 06/16/2013 5:57:17 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
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To: DeWalt
One idiot in a roomfull of idiots does not make him a genius.

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Who's smarter - the dupes who voted for Rubio, or the man who duped them?

28 posted on 06/16/2013 5:57:19 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei
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29 posted on 06/16/2013 5:57:22 PM PDT by RetSignman ("...a Republic if you can keep it")
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To: Baynative

On this one issue of an 800 page bill, I would vote NO.

I do NOT want to see omnibus comprehensive bills which are full of provisions which we don’t know about, and don’t come to light until a bill is signed into law.

Didn’t we learn from Obamacare that continually changing the wording of bills up until the last minute, and voting on a 2000 page bill nobody has read, is a recipe for disaster?

An 800 page bill is a big NO vote in my opinion.

We may need to make some changes to immigration, and deal with illegal aliens, but doing it in some “comprehensive overhaul” is unlikely to accomplish what people hope for.

Break it into pieces and let’s vote on that. Let’s secure the border, vote on that first. Let’s decide what should be done about illegal aliens, separate from the major increase in LEGAL immigration which is part of this huge bill. Let’s break it all up and deal with individually. And let’s have the guts to vote NO and risk being criticized by the MSNBC crowd.


30 posted on 06/16/2013 6:02:12 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Zhang Fei
"I don't focus a lot on public polling, but if you look at these public polls, it's clear the vast majority of Americans understand that what we have in place in this country is de facto amnesty, a broken legal immigration system that needs to be reformed," he said.

Yeah, by reform, most Americans want them arrested, processed and deported. Enforce the law. BTW, the NSA should be able to locate every single one of them seeing as how they know anyone that's called or received foreign phone calls.

31 posted on 06/16/2013 6:02:45 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: Zhang Fei

Yeah, and the industrialists, SA, the Weimar crowd and the German generals all thought that they could keep that Hitler fellow on a short leash while he fronted for them. Remind me how that worked out.


32 posted on 06/16/2013 6:04:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
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To: Zhang Fei
I beg to differ. Schumer is working to get Democrats elected and sticking it to the American people. Rubio was elected to prevent that from happening. Who's worse - Charles Cornwallis (Schumer) or Benedict Arnold (Rubio)?

That is a good point. In a war battle, who would you despise more, your enemy who is fighting to defeat you, or soldiers from your own side who joined with your enemy to fight against you?

33 posted on 06/16/2013 6:05:58 PM PDT by Reddon
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To: Zhang Fei

I’m getting madder at Rubio by the day.

He’s pushing legislation that will destroy this country and lying about it. He’s flipping and flopping (now no enforcement first, though earlier he promised he wouldn’t support it unless enforcement came first). I’ll never trust this jerk on anything in the future.


34 posted on 06/16/2013 6:10:45 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Zhang Fei

More likely Rubio is being blackmailed by Blackmail Barry.


35 posted on 06/16/2013 6:11:00 PM PDT by Old Yeller (You can't spell Stanley Ann without S-A-T-A-N)
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To: SharpRightTurn
I’m getting madder at Rubio by the day. He’s pushing legislation that will destroy this country and lying about it. He’s flipping and flopping (now no enforcement first, though earlier he promised he wouldn’t support it unless enforcement came first). I’ll never trust this jerk on anything in the future.

The flip flopping is just for public consumption - he presents the face most conducive to winning future elections, depending on the audience. Ultimately, the guy's no Benedict Arnold - Arnold could be bought, whereas Rubio's core conviction is that we need to replace the American population with tens of millions of people from Latin America.

36 posted on 06/16/2013 6:14:46 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Aww c’mon, Kick the football.

They won’t pull it away at the last second.

Honest.


37 posted on 06/16/2013 6:15:34 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Christie at the beach
This entire push has now 1000 pages.

The nation is crumbling with all kinds of corruption; big government waste, cronyism, kickbacks, special interests running the agenda for themselves as each layer of government becomes deeper while there is no oversight. Then they tell us to trust them by making another huge layered of government. No one should be doing anything. Because haven't they done enough already. Obamacare, now compassionate amnesty. They should have no support on this from all of us. They are working for themselves. They don't care about us out here who make the country work but we don't get a say.

38 posted on 06/16/2013 6:17:29 PM PDT by Christie at the beach
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To: Zhang Fei

Bye Marco! Sleep with dogs and you get fleas.


39 posted on 06/16/2013 6:17:41 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (dont worry about Mexico, put the fence around kalifornia.)
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To: Zhang Fei
"Immigration reform is something that all Americans recognize has to be done," the Florida Republican said on ABC's "This Week," after being pressed on whether Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is "playing him,"

Frankly, it doesn't really matter whether Chuckie is "playing" Marco or not. Marco's statement about "immigration reform" tells us everything we need to know and, as other posters have noted, Rubio is "playing" conservatives.

40 posted on 06/16/2013 6:19:05 PM PDT by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for anti-American criminals!!)
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