Earlier this month, Marco Rubio was one of 38 Republican senators who voted against a United Nations treaty meant to help the world's disabled and "assure that the disabled enjoy the same rights and fundamental freedoms as their fellow citizens."
On Friday, Rubio followed up that display of callousness by voting against a $60 billion aid package for Hurricane Sandy victims. Even though it was $20 billion less than what was requested by the storm-ravaged states, Rubio joined 31 other Republicans in saying no to Sandy victims. Fortunately, there were enough votes to get the bill through the Senate, anyway.
Hopefully, Americans are taking notes and carefully filing away Rubio's voting record to reference in 2016 when he is sure to be considered for the Republican presidential nomination.
Because we should give Rubio credit for being so consistent in his principled lack of compassion for the down-and-out and impaired.
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Rubio's lack of compassion is troubling, but his limited abilities to understand how his dopey political calculations will play out seem somehow worse. After all, a NO vote on this will be remembered down the road when he's trying to hustle votes in an area of the country with a not insignificant Latino population and a place where the Republican party would like to make inroads.
That NO vote too will come back to haunt him in the conservative strongholds of the Midwest, Plains and Southwest, where natural/climate-change disasters have also caused serious and costly destruction (and likely will continue to).
And what kind of goof votes against the interests of his own state in such a nose-thumbing way? After Hurricane Sandy destroyed vital coastlines to the point where our stubbornly tea-party-conservative governor even begged the Feds for aid? The Obama administration isn't going to play ball with nitwits who keep being nitwits. And both Floridians and Americans aren't going to trust or vote for someone more interested in scoring meaningless political points than in helping them get back on their feet, back to work or back to some semblance of normal life.
If he wants to commit political suicide, why not get caught in some tawdry affair or in an airport men's room doing something icky or some such quick scandal? Why drag it out, only to end up in the next GOP primary clown car, from whence he'll take a laughable prat fall, get run over and end up getting tread marks across his ample rump for good measure? Quick political death or painfully slow, it's still obvious he's an ass.
Hate him!
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