Rubio gives up on Senate: ‘He hates it’

[still_one]

Marco Rubio is a U.S. senator. And he just can’t stand it anymore.


“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.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rubio-gives-up-on-senate-%e2%80%98he-hates-it%e2%80%99/ar-BBmqvxq?ocid=spartandhp

This is pathetic. Rubio can't hack it in the Senate, and somehow believe that qualifies him to be president??????

[Laura PourMeADrink]

1. What a gift for his opponents ! Something too difficult - "F it, I give up?" nt

[still_one]

2. What a pathetic excuse for a politician. He doesn't like being a Senator, so he thinks that

being a president will be interesting

[NV Whino]

3. He obviously is related to Sparkle Moose.

[LuvNewcastle]

4. If he is on the ticket, I think he might

lose Florida. The people there elected him to be their representative, and he's telling them that he's giving it up and not going to votes anymore? It's a stupid fucking move to say something like that, and he looks like a spoiled brat.

[treestar]

15. Exactly. It looks like he cares only for himself and his ambitions

and not the least for the people he is supposed to represent.

[BuelahWitch]

5. Another Republican Quitter?

Wow!

[tblue37]

6. So of course he will return all the money be was paid for the work he decided not to do.

No? I didn't think so.

[gratuitous]

7. He hates it so much, but he won't resign

Those paychecks aren't going to cash themselves. You know what a real leader would do if he found himself in your situation, Sen. Rubio? Of course you don't. Dumb question.

[still_one]

8. LOL

[DirkGently]

9. Florida thanks you for leaving, Senator.

... although just skipping votes to pursue a hopefully fruitless Presidential bid is pretty classless.

Still, we can make better use of the seat!

[justhanginon]

10. Hopefully in thefuture he'll have some time to do "cool stuff" along with JEB! N/T

[NCjack]

11. Of course the Senate moves at glacial speed -- thanks to Rubio's party -- the GOP. His party

has forced-fed deadly poison to the entire US Government. Instead of working to undo the damage he and his cohorts have done and continue to do, he skips out on his duty. Trump's criticism of him as an absentee senator is accurate and sufficient to destroy his attempt to become president. Rubio should resign now -- he is unfit for the Senate.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Actually, I Think It's Supposed To Move At Glacial Speed

Not as bad as they have made it, but isn't it designed to make sure that knee jerk decisions can't be reached?

[treestar]

14. +1

[NCjack]

16. No. It's supposed to move at deliberate speed (= snail's pace). /nt

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Semantics

It's a deliberative body. He would hate it even if his own crowd hadn't clogged the arteries.

He a small person who thinks there are quick and simple solutions to everything.

The very concept of sitting down to discuss an issue is anathema to him. The adjective used to describe the pace has nothing to do with why he's quitting.

[treestar]

13. Another quitter Republican

Wow, that really makes about zero sense.

Don't see how that could endear him to any voters.

[KamaAina]

17. Why? Don't they have a water fountain?

[Angry Dragon]

18. what an idiot and quitter

[Blue_In_AK]

19. Like he thinks he can handle the presidency then?

Does he think being president is a figurehead position?

[lpbk2713]

20. As I said in the other post ...

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[Efilroft Sul]

22. Why, Marco, you have a condition known as Palinitis. n/t