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BREAKING NEWS FROM DC: FLORIDA SENATOR RUBIO SHOWS LEADERSHIP AND STANDS UP FOR AMERICANS
Florida's Senator Marco Rubio calls out President Obama for his speech yesterday where he slammed the American people for being successful. As Senator Rubio stated, "this is class warfare."
While our countrymen are hurting and jobs are few, we have a President who believes he can "come out swinging" at the American people instead of working to fix the problem.
Thank you Senator Rubio for your leadership today. You can view his speech here or read his comments below.
Senator Rubio calls out President Obama
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Senator Rubio Criticizes President’s Rhetoric, Lack Of Leadership On Senate Floor
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio spoke on the floor of the Senate today to address the most critical issue facing our nation, Washington’s out-of-control spending and our nation’s massive debt. Senator Rubio also commented on President Obama’s press conference yesterday, during which his rhetoric failed to address these serious issues and stoked the flames of class warfare.
For a broadcast quality version of this speech, click here. You can also find the video on Senator Rubio’s YouTube account. For a full transcript of Senator Rubio’s remarks, see below:
Senator Rubio: “Thank you, Senator Johnson.
I too yesterday watched the President's lecture on television. Watched it again this morning just to make sure I was well informed before I came here. My reaction is twofold.
One is I'm disappointed, and the other is I'm alarmed.
First, I'm disappointed because America does not have a tradition of class warfare. It’s never been part of our nation. In fact, one of the things that distinguishes us from the world is that Americans have never believed that you somehow have to take money away from somebody else in order to be better off.
On the contrary, we've always looked to advance the cause of everyone in the belief that we can all be prosperous and in the hopes of growing our economy that way. That's the American tradition and that serves our nation well.
Unfortunately, you wouldn't know that from the speech yesterday, a rhetoric that, quite frankly, was deeply disappointing.
The idea that if we raise taxes, as the President said, on millionaires and billionaires, raise taxes on oil companies, raise taxes on owners of private jets, that that somehow is going to make a difference in America’s debt in terms of having a real impact, is not only misleading, I think, quite frankly, it's disappointing.
It's class warfare, and it’s the kind of language that you would expect from the leader of a third world country, not the President of the United States.
But I'm also alarmed and worried about the speech because I think from it you can only take two things. Either the president doesn't truly understand the nature of the problem that we face, or he's decided that this is a political issue, not a policy one.
I say he perhaps doesn't understand the nature of the case because, for example, he mentioned the corporate jet tax six different times, and yet the impact it would have is so insignificant that the White House to this very moment has not even been able to give an estimate about what it means in a dollar figure.
Going further, by the way, it’s important to note that that exact tax provision was part of the President's now-infamous ‘stimulus’ plan that passed in February of 2009.
The bigger problem, though, is maybe the President fundamentally doesn't understand how jobs are created. Politicians don't create jobs. U.S. Senators don't create jobs.
Senator Johnson pointed out jobs are created by everyday people from all walks of life that start a business or expand an existing one. And our job here in government is to make it easier for them to do that, not harder. And threatening to raise taxes, threatening to wage class warfare does not accomplish that purpose.
Here's what I would suggest to the President: I would suggest that we have done this before as a people of America, things like a simpler tax code. People around here are in favor of tax reform. A simpler tax code, a manageable and sane regulatory environment, and of course a government that doesn't spend money it doesn't have. These things have worked before, and they will work again. And I urge the President to lead us in that direction.”
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Comment by J.R. on June 30, 2011 at 4:59pm
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"Rubio Blasts Obama: 'Left-Wing Strong Man'"
Very interesting interview with U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL, by National Review Online... Here is a link to the article at NRO, which has some activated links in it for more information:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/270862/rubio-blasts-obama-left...
Earlier this month, Sen. Marco Rubio made an auspicious debut.
Unlike so many first turns in the upper chamber, Rubio’s stirring remarks, which celebrated American exceptionalism, caught fire. The Florida Republican’s words were cited by Senate colleagues and championed by conservatives. To no one’s surprise, the push to put Rubio on the 2012 ticket only increased, even though the charismatic freshman continues to swat away the chatter.
Look for the Rubio buzz to continue. In an interview with National Review Online, he says that he will take to the Senate floor for his second speech this week — and this time he will have President Obama in his crosshairs.
Rubio tells us that he will respond to Obama’s recent press conference, where the president reveled in class-warfare bluster. “Quite frankly, I am both disappointed for our country and shocked at some of the rhetoric,” he says. “It was rhetoric, I thought, that was more appropriate for some left-wing strong man than for the president of the United States.”
“Talking about corporate jets and oil companies,” Rubio says, missed the point. “Everybody here agrees that our tax code is broken,” he says, and he is open to discussing tax reform. “But don’t go around telling people that the reason you are not doing well is because some rich guy is in a corporate jet or some oil company is making too much money.”
Watching Obama brandish such talking points made Rubio wince. “Three years into his presidency, he is a failed president,” he says. “He just has not done a good job. Life in America today, by every measure, is worse than it was when he took over.”
“When does it start to get better?” Rubio asks. “When does the magic of this president start to happen?”(My note: We've been looking for that profusely advertised "magic" for three years and running... Looks to me as if what we have been shown is an empty suit belonging to a tyrannical America hater who has revved-up his mocking rhetoric to stick a plank in our collective eye, while violating our history, our traditions, our culture, our founding principles, our Christian heritage, our laws, and our Constitution.
As to the "magic of this president," there's no there... there.)
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Comment by Armando Delgado on June 30, 2011 at 4:45pm
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Common sense, pure common sense. You would think more Democrats in the senate would realize this is what the American people want, not the demagoguery that Obama keeps spouting.
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YAY!!! An adult took on the school yard bully. YAY!!!
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Council should take note!
"and of course a government that doesn't spend money it doesn't have."
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After I heard Obama's talk yesterday, I posted the following on my facebook: "Did you hear Obama's speech today? It seemed as if his address was directed to an undereducated audience. And, will he ever accept responsibility for anything, he constantly is blaming others; i.e., a child blaming their friend or sibling when caught in the wrong!" A friend responded: "That's his mode of operation, useless."
\THANK YOU SENATOR RUBIO! WE ARE SO FORTUNATE TO HAVE YOUR REPRESENT US!!!
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do not let up on this menace to our freedom and our very lives--try to get some of the gutless republican senators and house members to publicly denounce this disgraceful person on the floor of the house and senate and anywhere else two or more people are gathered..Bless you-we pray daily for patriots like you every day.
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Comment by YVONNE & MICHAEL APPELL on June 30, 2011 at 4:09pm
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Senator Rubio,
One word: EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!
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Comment by Patricia M. McBride on June 30, 2011 at 4:09pm
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Thank you Senator Rubio! Obama is one sick puppy!
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Comment by Marjorie Jean Lauver on June 30, 2011 at 4:08pm
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Good for you, Senator Rubio. It is time for reason to rule. Our GOP needs to go back to their origins and work with the Tea Party to establish a truly conservative party and then everyone vote with conservative principles. We don't need a third party - just our old GOP back with some common sense.
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Comment by Theresa Pletcher on June 30, 2011 at 4:00pm
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Thank You Senator Rubio! When will ovomit finally go to jail?
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