Rubio's Hometown Newspaper Calls on Him to Resign

[ClydeR]

Marco Rubio should resign, not rip us off

More... (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/editorials/fl-editorial-rubio-bush-gs1028-20151027-story.html)

Will they ask him about it in the debate?



The last time Rubio showed up for work, he called on the federal government to fire employees who are not showing up for work. I'm not kidding..


Marco Rubio, who has one of the worst attendance records in the US Senate, chastised government employees on the Senate floor for not doing their job.

In a speech pushing for a vote on a Veterans Administration reform bill on Tuesday, Rubio said, "All we're saying in this bill here is that if you work at the VA, and you aren't doing your job, they get to fire to you."

He added, "there is really no other job in the country where if you don't do your job you don't get fired."

Apparently there is. Rubio has missed 88 senate votes, or more than 30 percent, so far this year, according to the website GovTrack. Since he came to the senate in 2011, Rubio has missed 11.6 percent of all roll call votes, a stark comparison to the 1.6 percent average of his colleagues. Yesterday was the first vote Rubio took this month, after skipping the seven others.

More... (https://news.vice.com/article/in-a-rare-work-appearance-marco-rubio-says-government-employees-who-dont-show-up-for-work-should-be-fired)

[Thondalar]

On the one hand I'd like to defend Rubio in this just because I imagine it would be pretty tough to balance a presidential campaign with serving in the Senate...and I'm quite sure he isn't the only young Senator to miss an inordinate number of votes while running for President (Obama ring any bells?), I also can't argue the points made by the author. Unfortunately, this is the system we've created...a bastardization of what it used to be, what it was designed to be. I'm not at all a Rubio supporter, I don't think he would make a good President, and I hope he doesn't get the nomination, but...I can't really hold this against him. Resigning would be a huge nail in his presidential coffin, way more so than than missing votes on the floor, most of which are pointless anyway.

[Androidpk]

Seeing as he doesn't plan on running for re-election I don't think he'll resign before then.

[ClydeR]

Sen. Marco Rubio missed Friday's Senate vote approving a massive $1.8 trillion end-of-the-year spending bill and tax package — a day after he suggested that he could try to slow the legislation down.

The Florida Republican, who is running for president, was the only 2016 contender to miss the vote, which is the Senate's final vote of the year.

Rubio defended his absence in an interview, telling CBS News that "in essence, not voting for it, is a vote against it."

More... (http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/263719-rubio-misses-spending-bill-vote)

"Not voting for it, is a vote against it." There are a lot of thing Rubio did not vote for this year. Is he against all of those too?

[Jarvan]

On the one hand I'd like to defend Rubio in this just because I imagine it would be pretty tough to balance a presidential campaign with serving in the Senate...and I'm quite sure he isn't the only young Senator to miss an inordinate number of votes while running for President (Obama ring any bells?), I also can't argue the points made by the author. Unfortunately, this is the system we've created...a bastardization of what it used to be, what it was designed to be. I'm not at all a Rubio supporter, I don't think he would make a good President, and I hope he doesn't get the nomination, but...I can't really hold this against him. Resigning would be a huge nail in his presidential coffin, way more so than than missing votes on the floor, most of which are pointless anyway.

Considering Senators were never supposed to be "elected" in the first place... Yes, our system is fucked up.

[Warriorbird]

Considering Senators were never supposed to be "elected" in the first place... Yes, our system is fucked up.

Yeah. It should totally always be done Blagojevich style like it used to be.

[Jarvan]

Yeah. It should totally always be done Blagojevich style like it used to be.

You mean where the Senator is appointed by the Gov. then no.

If you mean elected by the state legislature.

Then yes.

The only real reason it was changed was because -gasp- politicians realized they have more power and can stay in office longer if they get people to "elect" them.

The House of Reps was supposed to be the "will of the people" while the senate was supposed to be the "will of the states". Now.. both are more "the will of the party".

[Warriorbird]

You mean where the Senator is appointed by the Gov. then no.

If you mean elected by the state legislature.

Then yes.

The only real reason it was changed was because -gasp- politicians realized they have more power and can stay in office longer if they get people to "elect" them.

The House of Reps was supposed to be the "will of the people" while the senate was supposed to be the "will of the states". Now.. both are more "the will of the party".

46 electoral deadlocks did occur. You're right though. Evidence of actual corruption was minimal.

[Latrinsorm]

The only real reason it was changed was because -gasp- politicians realized they have more power and can stay in office longer if they get people to "elect" them.Why, then, did the Senate defeat Constitutional Amendments that would have given them this supposed power on four separate occasions?