Editorial: Rubio has a lot of explaining to do. When he shows up, that is
As former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole lay in state at the U.S. Capitol, it was remembered how he had surmounted partisanship to help save Social Security, renew the Voting Rights Act, provide school meals to children, create the federal holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and pass the Americans with Disabilities Act.
When it was necessary to raise the federal debt ceiling, Dole did that, too. He knew that for the nation to default on its obligations would wreck the economy, litter the nation with hardships, devalue the dollar and diminish America before the world. That’s still true, too. Our ruination would delight Russia and China.
Yet every House Republican and 36 GOP senators, including Florida’s Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, voted in effect to do just that last week.
More often than not, Rubio and Scott kowtow to the demands of former President Donald Trump, their party’s Liar King. He threw another of his tantrums over the debt ceiling bill, claiming that Minority Leader Mitch McConnell should have used a threat of default to kill the Build Back Better legislation.
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