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WASHINGTON -- Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Wednesday asserted that none of the major issues facing the United States have been solved during Barack Obama's presidency.
"This nation and this political process has not solved one single major issue in the last three and a half to four years. In fact, it’s been incapable of even passing a budget," said Rubio in a speech here to the Latino Coalition Economic Summit. "The single largest organization in the world -- a $3.8 trillion endeavor called the United States government -- has not had a budget in almost four years."
The potential vice presidential pick has gone on the attack against the president recently. During a high-profile GOP fundraiser in South Carolina over the weekend, he called Obama the most divisive figure in modern American politics. Though today he did not use the president's name, he delivered a toned-down version of that same message in front of a bloc of voters, Latinos, that will be key in the November election.
But Rubio's harshest rhetoric was aimed at the body he is a member of, the Senate. He even acknowledged that, despite taking office with high hopes, nothing has changed since he entered the high chamber.
“I ran because I was frustrated by the political process. Nothing has happened over the last year and a half to change that frustration, unfortunately," he said. "Too often times, in the United States Senate especially, most of the votes we take are nothing but messaging points. Bills are brought to the floor by people and they’re not going pass...The only thing that’s being done in the Senate these days is creating material for television commercials in the fall. And it's sad."
Earlier in the afternoon it was presumptive nominee Mitt Romney who addressed the group, delivering a speech promoting education reform.
Rubio applauded the former Massachusetts governor's plans for reform, saying: "There will be no new jobs in the 21st century for people who do not have advanced education of some form. We have to provide access to that as well as affordability. And I'm glad that the nominee of my party has taken the lead in that regard."
It is of little surprise why Republican politicians are paying such close attention to Hispanic voters in 2012. A new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Telemundo poll showed Obama with a 34-point lead over Romney among Latino voters.
It is a big reason why the junior senator from Florida has generated so much buzz about joining the presidential ticket. But a Quinnipiac poll released today shows that Rubio adds only two points to Romney's showing in the Sunshine State.
Though Rubio did open his speech in Spanish, little else was specifically tailored for the Latino audience. Much of his speech was focused on the broken ways of Washington and examples of what he believes are missed opportunities for job creation -- like building the Keystone Pipeline.
'These are the kinds of things that historians write about 100 years from now when they discuss the decline of a civilization of a nation -- ridiculous decisions that were made because of politics, not because of policy," he said.
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Because people are sick & tired of being pandered to by the GNOP!
Not to mention, as time goes by, Marco is compiling enough baggage to sink an inner-tube!
Oh, and, where's Marco's version of the Dream Act he's been hollaring about?
Rubio talking about the 'broken ways' in Washington is really funny.
Rubio, the TeaParty, guy.......needs to own the broken ways that he is supporting!
@Feisty.....a good laugh is coming up....Joe the Plumber is gonna be on TV with Rev Al!
Chilled - Does Al need his toilet plunged. Because there's no other reason he'd need to talk to that idiot about anything......
@ GT ...Joe the Plumber was outraged about Bidens reference to plumbers when he was talking about Willards private equity...not being qualified to be President.
Well, Ol Joe (the non-plumber) feels that he and any other 'blue collar' person is just as qualified, to be President, as those who support 'elitism' (Harvard/Yale) grads...
The non-plumber supports Pizza Mans 999 tax plan...and kinda thinks that local plumbing unions are OK (he says he's got family members).....just not at the fed level.
Too funny....don't know about Al's toilet, but I betcha the non-plumber couldn't fix it.
Chilled,
All I can say is, when is someone going to stand up & enlighten us on what Willard's vision for America is, other then it's his turn?
Here we have a phony plumber pissing & moaning about that evil Obama!
Climb back into the cess-pool Joe - you seem to be most comfortable there!
Willard is pulling 'A Palin'.........
He's trying to avoid the media (except Faux) at all costs.
His avoidance, hopefully, will be about as successful as Palins' and just as disastrous!
Liar, liar, pants on fire. Sorry, Marco, but that's you and everytime you or one of your phony fiscal responsibility cronies makes that claim and I hear it, I will call you the liar you are. That goes for Paul Ryan, too, and Mitt Romney who lies so often, the press hits Google and does instant fact checking.
Despite the Party of No, despite the GOPTP's efforts to block, obstruct, delay and deny all things President Obama proposed beginning, all things democrats tried to do; despite the times President Obama reached out to the GOPTP in an effort to compromise, President Obama has turned the disastrous Bush/GOP economic collapse and near depression around. Marco and his band of merry obstructionists now play the game of "let's pretend" and ignore that it was their party, the GOP, which created the mess and did NOTHING to fix it. Then they point at President Obama and say, see, see, it's his fault. Anyone who votes for republicans and Mitt Romney is voting for a repeat performance of 2001-2008. I'd say 3 tries at trickle down is 2 tries too many.
Chilled, Joe the Plumber was on Lawrence O sometime ago, when he announced he was running for Congress. The plumber was very polite but Lawrence pointed out how bad 9-9-9 tax plan was and recommended he study up to learn how it impacts the lower and middle class--poor Joe looked blank.
If Rubio honestly believes that historians are going to look back in a 100 years, and claim the decline of America was caused by a delay in building the Keystone Pipeline, he is not smart enough to be in politics. What they will invariably point to as a decline will be the Bush presidency, the massive failures of Tea Party to compromise politically, and Obstructionist politics employed by both the GOP/TP.
Mitt could make a lot worse choice than Rubio.
Sure he could pick Palin again.
Rubio is a good fit for Romney as they both hold such strong beliefs like a flag changes with the changing direction of the wind.
Rubio believed that when his parents were living out their lives in dignity due to social security and medicare he thought the programs should be strengthened in such a beautiful speech. But now he has evolved and thinks we are weak as a nation to provide that for other people's parents.
Why is evolving for a republican mostly to a more heartless and empty place?
The left got a licking this week, but they are still ticking. They are out on Force again. I don't like Rubio either.
Rubio, seems to be a nice guy, but he should try to speak for himself with his own words and not the script that the right put in front of him to read...
The poor guy looks more like a fool than anything else...
Look in the mirror Mr. Rubio, and see the problem.
The next piece of unfinished business will be to get rid of Rubio so the Spanish people can continue to move forward without having to watch over their shoulder all the time.
Rubio is nothing more than the Republican Spanish Puppet
Republicans crashed the economy, and then did all they could to prevent it's repair.
Period.
Obama/Biden 2012
The only unfinished business that the GOP has with the Hispanic community involves shipping them all back to Mexico...
Rubio is a Hispanic front man for the GOP and their wealthy corporations. Just like Herman Cain, he will be used and then trashed when he's fulfilled, (or failed) at his function.
"The single largest organization in the world -- a $3.8 trillion endeavor called the United States government -- has not had a budget in almost four years."
And since the Republican House DID pass a Budget the last two years, the failure is directly at the office of Harry Reid who has not even tried to pass a Budget - even when the Democrats controlled the House, Senate AND the Presidency for Obama's first two years.
And then Reid has the nerve to say that it's the Republicans that are doing nothing - even though they have passed about 30 bills that might create jobs - but Reid is sitting on them and refuses to even allow them to be debated.
I find it interesting that NO republican talks about all the blocking of anything that may have helped this nation......the only thing republicans are interested in is beating Obama....they care nothing about this country for all their talk..thewir deeds tell you all...that is if you are wanting to look. How much faster could things in this country have turned around if only all policicans worked together as they were actually elected to do.?
SO, was Mr. Rubio taking credit for the fact that the Republican PArty has proven unwillling to compromise and managed stonewalll everything the Dewmocrats have atttempted? The President has certainly been willling to meeet the Republicans at least half way e.g. is there a single payer option in the Health Care Plan? I know that as a recent cancer diagnoseee I would vote for the Democrats regardlesss. I can't affford to have them take away acccewsss to the mediccine I neeed to recover - wghich is exactly what would happpen in the unlikely event the Republicans gain control of the government in 2012.
Precisely what history books will show: Republican leadership threw their own honor out the window and millions of sheep still believed their phony agenda. Rubio knows this but will continue to carry his masters water. Completely dysfuctional and phony. Nothing rightous remains of the party and it is due to the leadership letting big business dictate to them while taking bribes. History simply repeating itself. Obama has proven his leadership. I'll vote for him again. I trust him. There is no reason or reasons to trust this great country to unhonorable people. Please GOP, find honorable leadership, please.
did he mentiion that everything Obama presented got a resounding HELL NO from the republicans ... their GOP/TP goal was not to finish business for the country ..but to defeat everything Obama presented ..regardless of the good it would do
Actually, independentjim, that's not true. The Republicans do, indeed, say NO to the ongoing stupidity of this administration. That's why they were elected .... to stop the nonsense of Obama and restore the balance of power.
Republicans voted with the President on the new law to stop insider trading by our elected officials .... something that apparently was not previously considered illegal.
Maybe they could get together on a reasonable plan for term limits ..... but I am sure that would have to include a "grandfather clause" so that professional politicians like Charlie Rangel can continue to take advantage of his "perks".
Let's see now. Last time the GOP picked someone half way through their first term as governor. Now they are thinking about picking someone one third the way through their first term in the senate. Aren't these the same guys who were whining about Obama's lack of experience 4 years ago?
Chucky Stuart,
Yup , these are the sames guys. But the tea party cannot, and those looking for the VP slot, cannot remember day to day what the party line is and of course get all tripped up if they ever go off script.
Rubio didin't say he was against the fillibuster did he? Did he talk about the dismal record of the schools in Florida?
AMERICA, DO NOT BE FOOLED !
The Carnival Barkers United Front(formerly known as the MSM) will try to Convince Real Americans of Every Shiny Object & Every SmellTest possible between Now & Election Day!
However, Real America needs to be Focused on 1 thing, "The Supreme Court" & its direction over the LONG Term. In 2010, Folks were discouraged because President Obama had'nt succeeded in turning around the The Economic Disaster of 8 years from the Previous Administration, in ONLY 2 Short Years. They stayed Home & Did'nt VOTE, therefore giving Republicans the Enjoyment of Redistricting in Many States after the Census was taken. Another 10 years LOST, due to the Short Term memory of the "I Want Change Now Crowd"!
In November 2012, the LONGTERM Direction of America will Rest on WHO America Elects as President! Does America wanna continue the Corparate Direction of America(started with Bush/Cheney),or does America wanna get back to a "We The People America" ?
America, do NOT be Sidetracked by the Latest Shiny Object, that Americas Carnival Barkers wanna Talk about.
This Presidential Election is about "The Supreme Court" & Who gets to Pick 1-2 or 3 Judges in the next 4 Years!
It's about NOTHING BUT THE LONGTERM HEALTH OF, "WE THE PEOPLE"!
Re-Elect President Barrack Obama !
You Betcha!
Occupy SoggyBottom!
Perhaps they've begun to listen to all you liberals who told us experience didn't matter when we objected to Obama.
I love to see you guys pretend that the republicans didn't take a thriving economy with surpluses that were expected to pay off our entire debt by 2010 to by 2008 had created the largest deficit in the history of our country.
Then you want to pretend like bush and the republicans didn't do this and blame it all on President Obama.
I mean it has been almost 4 years and how can we still blame bush for the recession his policies threw our country in? And just because the republicans have blocked any of President Obama's policies that would make our recovery faster, we can't blame the republicans for that either.
I am so sick of the republicans party being the party of more hate than brains. There use to be smart republicans who loved our country and were willing to compromise to do for our country rather than play infantile power games.
Neither fringe got what they wanted and our country ran pretty well. But now the 20% of our population that thinks that we should not have abortions for any reason thinks and is supported by the republican party that they should have the right to control all the women in the United States with their fringe beliefs.
The republicans have already outlawed abortions in Mississippi and if you elect a republican for anything your state is next.
That is an outright lie.
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Big differance between having a captain of a ship who has only 2 years experance and a first offcer that has had 2 years. Obamas lack of experance is proving itself everyday. So far the only thing he is good at is running for president. Something he has been constantly doing for the past three and a half years. And lets not even get into Biden's qualities. Now their is a ticket to be proud of, NOT. The only change to abortions are they are no longer paid for by the state. Like everything else they should be paid for by the persons using the service. If a person had to pay for it themselves maybe they wouldn't have so many. But like everything if it is free then people tend to abuse it. There never was a surplus, The Dot Com bubble destroyed this long ago, because it was a future projection that never happened. The democrats made it worse with the Housing Regulation they passed causing the housing/banks down fall in 08, so it was Congress not the president, but the bresident always gets the blame (except for Obama).
Unlike Biden at least this guy can string thoughts and words together into coherent sentences.
BTW - Feisty is that the Illinois way of spelling hollering???
Chilled - how do ou explain thew lack of a budget from the Senate for 3 years?
Oh Dear!
I see my little pet REB still has nothing to offer other then her spelling police badge! lol
Go eat some brocolli - you're out of gas!
Feel better now hon?
Chilled - how do ou explain thew lack of a budget from the Senate for 3 years?
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If you are going to slam someone's spelling, you'd be wise not to use a Texas dictionary.
Teapublicans can't connect the dots even with Glenn Beck's chalkboard. There's no Rule of Reason left in the GOP.
As for junior, is he out there saying stupid stuff again already?
Yoo Hoo - where did you go my little pet - Reb?
Don't tell me the cat has your tongue now... lmfao!
REB#### asks...Chilled - how do ou explain thew lack of a budget from the Senate for 3 years?
Ask the TeaPeople in Congress, REB......better yet, go back to the Dubya years, and ask what happened to the surplus left by President Clinton.
Use spell check, it's really helpful!
Who's Reb, and why is he or she generating so much vitriol from you folks? Based on the reaction Reb has received from all you liberals . . . I'm gonna friend her! Lol.
CubsFan2012
They are just on me because I usually correct their grammar and spelling and now they have a chance to come back at me. Those losers haven't got a complete brain between them so I'll let them have their fun for a brief moment.
Chilled - since when is Harry Reid who controls the Senate a Tea Party guy and what does a phony surplus (done with smoke, mirrors and our social security funds) under Clinton have to do with the last three years of no budget. No answer I guess.
Feisty - glad I made you day. You have so little to be happy about these days.
BTW CubsFan2012, I'm a guy who lives in NYC. Feisty thinks that everybody is a girl on this site. How do you exist with all those idiots in Chicago like Feisty, Bev, Seeking Sanity?
REB- sorry, but one of the big plans for President Clinton's surplus was to FUND social security for several decades. Of course, the republicans wanted no part of that...
Lest you forget where Clinton gave the illusion of a good economy was the neutering of our military. Right feisty? Feisty, do you know that you are first to post on almost every issue. Hmmmm... what could that mean? Shill?
This nation and this political process has not solved one single major issue in the last three and a half to four years.
We don't solve issues, as if they will go away, we deal with them on a constant basis. And when you have an obstructionist bunch of unqualified baggers in congress, they'll never be properly dealt with......
Obama/Biden 2012
Two things, first is that the GeeNOPee has done everything it could to squelch any and all things presented by the Administration so Rubio whining is ridiculous.
Secondly, I haven't heard a single Hispanic other than Rubio complain about President Obama's performance. I have heard more praise of him than criticism from Hispanics. Rubio has enough skeletons in his own closet that he shouldn't be raddling the bones of others.
Though Rubio did open his speech in Spanish, little else was specifically tailored for the Latino audience
HARRIS-PERRY: OK. I`m sorry. I want to pause.
ORTEGA: Yes.
HARRIS-PERRY: Did you say Marco Rubio cannot speak Spanish?
ORTEGA: He can.
HARRIS-PERRY: I`m sorry. What just happened here? I didn`t want to miss.
ORTEGA: No, no. He can speak it well too, because there is a difference
between conversational Spanish and, you know, fluent.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47345826/ns/msnbc_tv/t/melissa-harris-perry-show-sunday-april/
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Does Rubio not speaking conversational Spanish mean he only speaks to the ole white Republicans and Tea baggers in Washington, DC???
Sorry folks rubio can not remember how or why or even when his family "FLED" Cuba . BTW you repubs @!$%#eeys the bed when you did not ask a True American Hero General Colin Powell to run for President .
LOL and yes I live In Florida . Lets be clear now , This independent would vote for Powell . Will NOT vote for romney or rubio .
Oops should have been which time , they " FLED " cuba .
Instead of running real people with a possibility of winning , we got the " repub clown car of 2012 " WHAT where repubs thinking ? Seriously . You gave us Bachmann , Cain , Perry . And last but certainly least we get Romney . You might have got behind Huntsman . He actually did have a brain .
Let Us not forget "sarah palin " Trade marked says she will be available as well .
LMAO and the repub licker shills say we should be afraid of each and every one . I am so a ASkeered of Bachmann and Cain and Perry ans NEWT and blah balah
why would anyone be afraid of these people ? Well unless they where YOUR elected Officials .
Carpenter7 . . . calm down. Think for more than 1.3 seconds before you type your post. Not only might you type something worth reading once you do so, you might also be able to do it in one post instead of five.
I think picking Rubio for the hispanic vote is just like them picking Palin for the women vote.
How stupid do they think we are?
Then the republicans trot out their republican women who have voted against women rights just like they have been told. This is somehow their proof that there is no war on women.
VOTE FOR WOMEN'S FREEDOM...VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT 2012
Rubio is no help with the hispanic vote. The vast majority of hispanics in this country are from Mexico and Central America. They are basically economic refugees who came here and had to suffer through the terrible immigration process we have in this country. They don't relate well to Cubans, whom they see as having had a different experience in getting here, almost a privileged acceptance as refugees from Castro. He might help in Florida, but that's already a red state.
VOTE FOR WOMEN'S FREEDOM...VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT 2012
Amen to that!!
GT: Women's freedom? I don't feel the need for a Democrat, or any other political persuasion to provide me the freedom that I already have and anyway, I don't believe in looking to our government to solve all my problems. That's my responsibiity.
Rubio does not consider himself latino. But he will use the fact that he is Cuban, as I'm latino and understand Latinos. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Rubio has a Rivera problem.
When your boyfriend gets you more negative publicity than anything, it's time to offload that luggage and find less heavier bags to lug around.
*wink*
It will do very little, stumping for Romney by pandering to latinos, they see right through it.
All Republicans are claiming that they successfully stopped the president from doing anything to improve the economy. They did, however, fail to block private enterprise and the recovery of the financial markets to record highs, the return of the stock market to levels not seen under Bush, 26 straight months of job growth in the outsourced, consumer stagnated, workforce, and trade increases internationally.
Republicans announced their primary intention was to make Obama fail. We have seen their MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner before.
You should probably change your name to Stew Pidd.
AffinityGW,
You just provided the answer to your own post. The stock market has improved because the elections of November, 2010 successfully "neutered" Obama politically so that he was unable to inflict more harm. Hell, if November, 2010 had not happened, the Dems would have rammed through "Cap and Trade" (a.k.a. Cap and Tax) which would have raised the costs of energy here in the U.S. for everyone ..... businesses and individuals.
The results of November, 2010 happened for a very clear reason. Obama was hell-bent on ramming through his ego-driven "Obamacare" at all costs to those who supported this hor$e$hit legislation. Obamacare puts government bureaucracy and inefficiency in charge of a private sector function.
Feisty - what a pig...
i like how building the pipeline is so important and it will create so many jobs and blah blah blah. but rebuilding bridges and fixing highways and schools thats evil government spending. ill call bs on the whole job creating crap. its about the top having easier ways to make money. thats all the pipeline is. most of the oil that travels through it will NOT stay in this country. the only reason the want to bring it thru here is because canadians voted it down because its dirty to ship and dirty to refine. you dont hear them mentioning that tho.
the pipeline is bogus. A shiny object that the media can focus on and do the "correct" thing and state per Romney the pipeline will create 16,000 jobs and per Obama its an ecological disaster. But the confcept of the media being the truthteller- naw it might effect our commercial stream of income.
At least the pipeline is in demand. Soylendra was not how much waisted money could have been used for roads?
I remember them saying the same about the Alaska pipeline, boy did that come in handy. Where were all those spills??? Democrats are the party of NO to any energy below ground.
One is prvate money and the other is my money. I'd like to keep more of mine. And I can if the private money is spent. Less people will be on unemployment, more tax $ will be raised, US will be less dependent on ME oil (lowering the cost of fuel?). That's the difference that y'all don't see.
I heard Joe the plummer is now on Romney's short list of VP's!!!! Joe was selling Mr 999 tax-plan on Fox News today ...but when the moderator asked him to expound on the subject matter he was unable to do .....immediately he went into Romney's mode....good job Joe!!! we either plan to fail or fail to plan.
America First..... four years of Romney & the GOP would be 4yrs of Bush plus hell++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Let not your heart be troubled..... America is wide awake>>>Obama/Biden 2012
The party of NO continues to attempt to dumb down Americans. Do they think people won't associate the problems today with their stubbornness to help when we had a decent chance at correcting the devastation left by Bush on this country and the world. That Axis of Evil is a Tag will forever be tied to Republicans/Conservatives. Took them 8 years to set mankind back a century and they want another shot? GET REAL.
WTFHAPPENED
No waistful spending, No bloted government, No to forcing people to join Unions. No to Higher Taxes, No to buying friends overseas, We need to go back in time when the Constitution was followed more closely. No Judges "inturpit" it to mean anyting they want to. Years ago an American was respected, now we are a joke. I know of Millions of people who Love Bush, many overseas that have a much freer country today because of him. Obama wants a government run state, like Europe, and Soviet Union. I like the eariler times when a person could go out and start a business, without having to jump over so many regulations they just had to quit. Spending/printing Money is not what we need we need a president that will allow the americans to go out and make a life fof themselves, and not make everyone dependant on social programs. What kind of future will we have if our children will have to pay this dificet off, or will we be forclosed on by China? The Obama future looks a lot worse to me.
Where was Rubio when George Bush and Dick Cheney falsified intelligence reports, creating the myth of WMD's in Iraq, causing the American Invasion of a sovereign nation, and spending trillions of American Tax Dollars on two wars that served no purpose whatsoever? Where was Rubio when Banking Regulations were reduced, allowing Wall Street to create a "depression" not a recession that cost 4.5 Million American Jobs prior to the January 20, 2009 swearing in ceremony for the current president? Where was Rubio when Wall Street pulled the same tricks last week, and we see everyone in Washington trying to explain the need for stronger regulations for Wall Street? As a Republican Voter, I think you are not getting through to me Mr. Rubio!
The Democratic 2006 Congress Made those banking regulations, that didn't reduce regulation, but allowed Fanny and Freddy to make government backed loans, to poor people who couldn't afford them. Then force the Banks to accept them. JPM and other banks are still allowed to inverst, this time they lost 2% of their money. I just wish the Government would only loose this much. instead of the 2 Trillion a year, and not a peep. Of course the people will have to bail out the Government, not JPM. All world intelligence agencys believed Iraq had WMD because for the 10 previous years they had been using them in the north against the Kurds. So they did have them, but with the Gutting of the intelligence agenticys all of US Europe thought they have even more. So from what I read Romney needs to have a illegal mexican as a vice presidental nominee for the Latino's to vote for him? But it is ok for a community organizer and a big mouth to run, go figure. Romney would not have been my choice but he is far better person to run the country then Obama. The side everyone forgets is it is congress that controls the purse strings, and we need more tea party people in there that are willing to really get back to Constitutional values and stop all this waistful spending.
Terry, Bush and Cheny did not "falsify" any reports you dope. This is not kndergarden. Are all of you libs this dumb? Last I checked every dem voted to invade Iraq. Its on youtube, please look it up before you look ay dumber.
sorry to say, nycl, but you are wrong. Intel was pushed to find any evidence of WMD, which were then touted as proof of wmd. When Cheny was secdef, I had the ill luck to brief him and our conclusions did not match his. I lost one pound of hamburger off my backside as he ripped me a new one. So, everybody on you tube you refer to to were taken, even the New York Times.
Even if Bush told the TRUTH (which I doubt), wars are UNFUNDED and a war TAX should be passed to pay for those war games. Republicons wont mind paying for a WAR TAX because they believe that anyone opposing WAR is being unpatriotic.
Rubio is a TeaTard who needs to go back to Cuba where he came from! Rubio doesn't talk about the DO-NOTHING Republican Led Congress who has voted as a block to stop every Obama initiative to bring jobs back and care for people. Rubio is a DO-NOTHING TeaTard who is just interested in becoming the VP candidate. Shame on all his constituents who voted for him as he is just about as flaky as Allen West, FL, who believes the Martians are about to take over the world!!! LOL
That's not racist at all, its nice knowing that libs want to protect illegals but we should deport educated americans who's parents were Cuban.
You libs are a disgrace.
He does openly pander to and support the Cuban lobby agenda. Its a pecking order of Cuban Americans first and then maybe the rest of Americans.
I dont condone any pandering, especially to certain groups as if they arent americans, i think its offensive to everyone and very divisive. IMO, its as bad as the lobbying problem we have, its the primary issue I have with Obama, being divisive.
Feisty Redhead how many "entitlements" are you collecting? Sorry, Obamacare going down, his love of illegals going down. The only people who would support Mr. Obama have their hands out for some sort of entitlement, you are a DISGRACE!!
Your statement is absolutely true. Good point.
Blame the poor....This is the BIGGEST propaganda line sent down from their Fuhrer. (you know...the ones who clean the houses of the wealthy...and takes out their garbage).
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Wednesday asserted that none of the major issues facing the United States have been solved during Barack Obama's presidency.
This guy has to get out more. Maybe being a memeber of the GOP/Tea Party has damaged his brain cells.
Joe - what major problems has obama solved?
1. economy- NO"
2. war on terrorism - NO
3. budget deficit spending-NO
4, slow gov spending-NO
Obama has done at least ONE big thing since taking office--instead of hanging on the EDGE of the cliff, we are a SAFER distance from it and are edging more and more to safer ground.
If Mitt Romney is voted in, OVER the cliff we go...and FAST. Ask Mitt for any NEW solutions he has besides:
1. Giving tax breaks to BIG business
2. Deregulating BIG business
3. Continuing war...FOREVER
4. Complaining about the deficit while running for office, then driving it sky high with unfunded WARS and unfunded TAX CUTS for the wealthy
5. Supporting benefits cuts of workers by corporations (which means sticking the middle class with even MORE higher taxes). Benefit cuts are a HUGE drop in wages for the middle class.
6. INSENSITIVE to ANY needs of the middle class working poor INCLUDING social security and medicare (which they want to demolish). Remember this was the FIRST thing Bush went after when he was elected.
7. Dismantling government that serves ALL to government that serves only the RICH. In other words....privatize EVERY service so that an unaffordable PROFIT (for the middle class ) can be gotten from it.
8. Blame the poor, while pushing policies that take away the livlihood (meaning...means of making a LIVING wage) of more and more people FORCING them into poverty.
Mitt Romney, we have had YOUR KIND in public office for over 30 years and YOU and all YOUR comrades need to go live where you stash all that hidden cash OUTSIDE this country.
This country, the average American simply can’t take a return to “more of the same”, Bush-Cheney style, with the “puppet” politicians performing as their “strings are pulled” ... and that is exactly what “the money” wants, what they are paying for. The likes of Rove, Cheney, Norquist, SuperPacs and several others are all selling just that, the organization, control and power over the party, and then the likes of Boehner, McConnell, Cantor, Ryan, Bachmann and several others are dutifully performing. “The money” is aggressively paying for it to emphatically assure their interests are the total concentration, without any concern for the majority, as has been totally proven over the last twelve years. They say whatever they feel will excite and sway the people, always rationalized as “conservative”, but do only what “the money” wants and then depend on the power and influence of “the money” to help con the people and manipulate public opinion. The Republican / Tea Party has literally become owned and controlled by “the money” and the only way to break that stranglehold that continually pushes this country further into being a two-class society, with “the few” (1%) competing in having it all while the majority (99%) keeps loosing more, is to firmly and totally reject their “puppet” candidates / politicians, and thereby render “the money” ineffective. It is up to the voters.
Who do you think "owns" the democrats? It's not we the people. Obama is the worst most ignorant president of all time. Yes he is. And you want him for another four years! LOL
Well said Cogito.... Not one single military budget cut and the banking bailouts are sailing all over the globe for the last 4 years to the tune of over $18 TRILLION! The handoff for all the bailouts was absolutely seamless when Obama took over from Bush. Every single bailout put on the table by Bush was passed without question by Obama. The borrowing just keeps growing out of control.
The two party's are two heads feeding the same body. They are still existing only for the ignorant to believe they have a choice. When you look at the lobby contribution lists the party's are so identical you would think they both have the same exact national committee running them.
The 2012 election is completely rigged. Watching the corruption, collusion and racketeering going on during the GOP primary made me sick. They are so sloppy now they don't even hide all the crap anymore. The Democrats refuse to even discuss a "plan" to correct their miserable failure.... Just more of the same crap.
Follow the money flowing into the party's and NOT the senseless babbling they do.
Considering that Republicans have been planting ideological Toxic Amendments into every budget process (NDAA was a military budget by the way) such as the sections 1031/1032 of the NDAA. Howabout funding something with cuts to social programs, how about cutting social programs completely out. The Tea Party a minority like the bolsheveks, are like the tail wagging the dog.