{"id":407763,"date":"2010-03-09T13:30:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T18:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=71976"},"modified":"2010-03-09T13:30:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T18:30:49","slug":"marco-rubio-helpfully-illustrates-the-vapidity-of-today%e2%80%99s-republican-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/407763","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio Helpfully Illustrates the Vapidity of Today\u2019s Republican Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It’s pretty clear Marco Rubio is going to be the Republican candidate for US Senate in Florida. He’s crushing Charlie Crist<\/a>, who was a popular Republican governor until he had the gall to support a black muslim’s generational theft<\/span> the stimulus bill, the funds of which Rubio has admitted he would’ve accepted.<\/a><\/p>\n

Anyway, Byron York’s sickening beat sweetener contains this little nugget about what Rubio thinks are the “central” issues of the times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For Rubio, that means the economic issues — “national debt, job creation, how our tax code and government spending are discouraging job creation, and entitlement reform.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This list could’ve been written on Sarah Palin’s hand. Let’s roll the tape, shall we?<\/p>\n

The national debt doubled under George W. Bush<\/a> and tripled under Reagan<\/a>. George W. Bush had the worst job creation record in 60 years.<\/a> Taxes are historically low and have been for twenty years.
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But Rubio wants to continue the policies that produced all of those outcomes.
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And notice: no mention about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and their $4 trillion dollar price tag, and how that’s affecting the deficit. No mention of the spiraling costs of health care, and how that’s bankrupting the country. No mention of the annual $700B bill for “defense.” <\/a><\/p>\n

Just a vague reference “entitlement reform” — which means “less money for poor and old people.” And of course, Rubio can’t mention Social Security by name in Florida, so he just punts.<\/p>\n

What you see in Rubio is what you see with the Republican Party as a whole today — a complete pathological refusal to accept any responsibility for the failures of Republican policies, which produces an utter unseriousness in dealing with the country’s challenges.<\/p>\n

It really is the perfect party for Sarah Palin.<\/p>\n

Tags: Marco Rubio<\/a>, Republicans<\/a>, Senate<\/a><\/p>\n

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It’s pretty clear Marco Rubio is going to be the Republican candidate for US Senate in Florida. He’s crushing Charlie Crist, who was a popular Republican governor until he had the gall to support a black muslim’s generational theft the stimulus bill, the funds of which Rubio has admitted he would’ve accepted. Anyway, Byron York’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}