Following Rick Santorum’s inability to name a single achievement of
, the media sought to answer the question for themselves. Yet many reporters appear to have come up empty handed.
As The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza writes, a “major part of the problem is that Rubio doesn’t have all that many accomplishments in the Senate.”
“When Rubio is asked to name his single greatest achievement in the Senate, do you hear crickets?” tweeted the National Journal’s Ron Fournier.
Though Rick Santorum was unable to name the accomplishments of the man he just endorsed, there are indeed several accomplishments that are quite noteworthy. Below are a few of Sen. Rubio’s achievements that Rick Santorum could have identified on MSNBC this morning:
(1) The Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight Bill
The Washington Examiner’s Byron York has described the 2013 Rubio-Schumer bill as Rubio’s “signature accomplishment.” Although Santorum seemed reluctant to mention it, Rubio’s immigration bill is probably the first accomplishment that comes to mind when anyone thinks of Rubio’s very brief career in the U.S. Senate.
Rubio’s immigration bill would have tripled the issuances of green cards, doubled the dispensation of foreign worker visas, and granted citizenship — and, thereby, welfare access and voting privileges — to illegal immigrants.
Reports ranging from the The National Review, to the Tampa Bay Times, to the Washington Post, to the New Yorker have all suggested that the Gang of Eight bill would have likely not passed the Senate if not for Sen. Rubio’s tireless efforts. Indeed, Rubio was the key salesman of the Obama-backed immigration agenda. As Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker reported at the time, Rubio served as “the Gang’s official ambassador to the right,” and was able to convince prominent conservatives to promote the open borders legislation.
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The rest of the article is good, too! Rubio is not being held accountable for his leftist votes. It is obvious that he did not show up to vote on certain things so they would not bring his conservative rating down, but it has been falling.
I take issue with Rush Limbaugh for continuing the mantra that Rubio is a solid conservative. This is so much hooey that even he has to admit that it is.
Rush cannot say that he (personally, on his radio show) has a rating of being 99.something or other% right on things. He has blown that out of the sky this election cycle. Trump, now Rubio? When the real conservative is right before your nose, but you cannot mention his name? Who paid off Limbaugh? Praise the Lord his brother has not joined him, but has stayed with Cruz.
Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem
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