Rubio addresses tea party criticism on Senate floor

Daily Caller ^ | 6/26/13 | Matt K. Lewis

[jimbo123]

“I have received numerous emails and calls from conservatives and tea party activists,” he said at the beginning of his remarks.

“To hear the worry, anxiety, and growing anger in the voices of so many people who helped me get elected to the Senate, who I agree with on virtually every other issue, has been a real trial for me,”

[Buckeye McFrog]

the question is whether or not the loss of support will cost him the next election.

When all else fails, plunk for the Democrat. The results cannot be any worse. We need to start Pavlov Training the Pubbies the way you would a stupid dog.

[dfwgator]

In sports we call this, “Blowing up the team.”

[kimtom]

what a square!

[jimbo123]

On the bright side, we must be absolutely melting the phone lines for him to engage in this sort of groveling.

Karl Rove's pro-Amnesty advertising campaign appears to be having the opposite effect of what was promised to Rubio and the other GOP-e stooges.

Nice Work, Karl!

[attiladhun2]

How do you spell Rubio-W-E-A-S-E-L.

[Graewoulf]

While Rubio and his Eight Senate Gangsters put out political smoke and mirrors to “get a bill passed this year,” nothing they have said will change the basic problem of aliens illegally invading the USA.

llegal aliens invade the USA for Welfare and Wages.

1.) End the Anchor Baby Law.

2.) End the Hospital Emergency Room No Payment Law (EMTALA).

3.) End ANY other Welfare to Aliens.

4.) Fine US employers $1,000 per day per employee who is an alien.

5.) Spend NO money on “securing the border.” It is a bottomless money pit.

6.) Spend money on Chainlink/ Concertina wire desert prisons for the mandatory 6 month imprisonment for repeat offenders who have invaded our Country more than once.

7.) Transfer Border Invasion Enforcement to the US National Guard in each State, and US Coast Guard.

8.) Repeal all State and Federal Laws that prohibit voter officials and Police from requesting proof of US Citizenship for any reason what so ever.

9.) Be as hostile to all illegal alien invaders as we should be to all Federal politicians and Federal Judges who vote for or support another Kennedy-style amnesty bill with no significant Federal enforcement.

[vpintheak]

Reason 1 million &1 that I’m not into hero worship, celebrity culture, and the endorsement of polititcians. They ALWAYS let you down. Even Sarah Palin let me down when she resigned.

[LongWayHome]

Florida freepers who watched Rubio’s career have told us all along that Rubio has always been for amnesty when he was in the Florida statehouse.

[Seaplaner]

But he said he told them that he would go to Washington to “fight to stop what is bad for America,” and that what we have now is, in fact, hurting America. ”I simply wasn’t going to leave it to Democrats alone to try to figure out how to fix it.”

“I got involved because I knew that if conservatives didn’t get involved in shaping this legislation, it would not have any border security reforms our nation desperately needs,” Rubio said.

Ahem.

Dear Mister Rubio.

"Getting involved" is far different from "fixing".

In this case, "getting involved" means not reading the whole bill, not understanding the true post-amnesty implications (all the illegals' relatives moving here too, NO border security ((think Janet N here)), and Republicans and conservatives losing every critical election from this point forward.)

Your "involvement" gives the Dems the cover of bipartisanship all the while they have fine-printed the bill to mean what you choose not to learn or understand.

Any clue as to why the Dems all like it, and want it voted and passed in a stampeded rush?

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One word for you....

Primary!

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[SierraWasp]

"To think I once sang this man’s praises..."

A wise old talk show host on KSFO in San Franpsycho (Lee Rodgers R.I.P.) always said:

"Never fall in love with a politician... they'll break your heart every time!"

[duffee]

Florida, crist democrat governor and rubio democrat senator. What a team.

[DManA]

Here's what it would take to get me back.

He will have to admit that he has failed in his efforts to help craft a bill that would accoplish the things he promised voters when he ran for Senate. He should say he did his best but the bill that has evolved does not meet the minimum requirements I laid out when I asked people for their votes.

So in order not to disenfranchise the people who voted for me, who believed what I promised, I cannot support this bill.

[Buckeye McFrog]

In sports we call this, “Blowing up the team.”

Well acquainted with that (I'm a baseball fan in Pittsburgh)

If you can't win today, deliver some punishment. Seems to have worked well for Obama.

[Stentor]

When all else fails, plunk for the Democrat.

Voting for the Rats will be the rough equivalent of calling in the artillery on your own position. The time is near. I'll probably do it first when I vote for Toomey's opponent.

[MEGoody]

So do what they want you to do - secure the border, no amnesty. They elected you to represent them, not yourself.

[Joe Boucher]

Folks that put his sorry ass in the senate are big sugar, cattle and citrus. Same folks that want this bill passed to forever keep a supply of cheap labor coming.

[RetSignman]

Maybe they have waded through bill and found all the crap that is in it.

Congress is too busy to read the bill, let us MAKE time to read it. It’s an abomination.

http://www.schumer.senate.gov/forms/immigration.pdf

[Christie at the beach]

Yes, he has been lying for a long time.

People trusted him over Charlie Crist. Crist, did say Marco lies. He was right about that.

[N. Theknow]

And he assured them he would continue to fight along side them for “real tax reform, lowering the debt, balancing our budget, reducing regulations, rolling back job-killing environmental policies and repealing the disaster of Obamacare,” and to defend “the sanctity of life and traditional marriage.”

So, after he totally works to destroy the country he is going to fight ever so hard to save it.

What an absolute asshat.

[jimbo123]

Rubio is shocked that his constituents want him to represent them.