Monday, October 26, 2015
Poor Water Boy Marco can't handle the Senate
But the dear little boy wants us to believe he can be president. Sadly for him, he has shown no aptitude for governing. But he does do greed and overweening ambition quite well.
Marco Rubio is a U.S. senator. And he just can’t stand it anymore.His big man wants us to believe that Water Boy isn't quitting even as Water Boy does exactly that. More of that slimy Republican logic. I am unable to understand how all these Republicans who want promotion to better things think that failing and quitting their current positions will bring them greater rewards. Maybe I just don't believe It Is OK If You Are A Republican.
“I don’t know that ‘hate’ is the right word,” Rubio said in an interview. “I’m frustrated.”
This year, as Rubio runs for president, he has cast the Senate — the very place that cemented him as a national politician — as a place he’s given up on, after less than one term. It’s too slow. Too rule-bound. So Rubio, 44, has decided not to run for his seat again. It’s the White House or bust.
“That’s why I’m missing votes. Because I am leaving the Senate. I am not running for reelection,” Rubio said in the last Republican debate, after Donald Trump had mocked him for his unusual number of absences during Senate votes.
Five years ago, Rubio arrived with a potential that thrilled Republicans. He was young, ambitious, charismatic, fluent in English and Spanish, and beloved by the establishment and the tea party.
But Rubio had arrived at one of the least ambitious moments in Senate history and saw many of his ideas fizzle. Democrats killed his debt-cutting plans. Republicans killed his immigration reform. The two parties actually came together to kill his AGREE Act, a small-bore, hands-across-the-aisle bill that Rubio had designed just to get a win on something.
Now, he’s done. “He hates it,” a longtime friend from Florida said, speaking anonymously to say what Rubio would not.
Which makes for an odd campaign message.
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