Paper: Don't Wait For Rubio To Do The Right Thing

The Orlando Sentinel didn't mince words when they went after their shallow, power-needing Senator, Marco "Li'l Marco" Rubio, for his cowardice and betrayal of American democracy over establishing a January 6 investigative commission. From their editorial:

"So Marco Rubio declared on Twitter he’s a no vote on creating a commission to get to the bottom of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

That’s the least surprising news since Rubio voted against convicting Donald Trump after the former president encouraged the insurrection, the clearest case for impeachment and removal of a president in U.S. history.  [snip]

Sorry to say it, but Marco Rubio is beyond hope.

Before the insurrection, we, too, took a few stabs at encouraging Rubio to do the right thing.

After Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death just weeks before last year’s election, we asked Rubio to stand by the Merrick Garland doctrine he and the GOP embraced in 2016 — that replacing a Supreme Court justice in a presidential election year should be left to the election’s winner.

No dice.

We asked him to go ahead and support Trump’s policies if he must but to take a stand in opposition to Trump’s worst, most grotesque impulses.

Nuh-uh.

What’s the point of appealing to someone who swore off another Senate run when he ran for president in 2016, then turned around and ran for the Senate? Someone who negotiated a bipartisan immigration reform bill and then campaigned against it?

We’ve been waiting a decade for Rubio to do the right thing. But the senator is Lucy with the football, and every Floridian who trusts him is Charlie Brown."  (our emphasis)

Rubio imagines himself to be a future President, as a young child might. But imagine this: a President without the character, spine and honesty to put his country above his party making life-and-death decisions for the nation. That's what you'd get, and worse, from Li'l Marco. The Trumpist / Insurrectionist Party is full of Rubios, and won't be deterred unless they start losing elections, and probably not even then.

(photo: Li'l Marco tries out a big person chair)