Is it any wonder Rubio has been named
an Aspen-Rodel fellow, or invited to speak at the Council on Foreign Relations?
Take a look at his voting record and you'll see why these organizations love
Senator Rubio.
Amnesty and Refugees - The Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight amnesty bill likely would not
have passed the Senate had Rubio not been such a prolific supporter. [Link], [Link] He's now waffling on the fact that he is a great
supporter of illegal aliens gaining citizenship.
Needless to say, Rubio joined the rest
of the Ryan moderate (euphemism for socialist) Republicans in voting down Rand
Paul's amendment.
Rubio has been one of the most ardent
champions for increasing Muslim migration. The U.S. has admitted roughly 1.5
million migrants from Muslim countries since 9/11 on a permanent lifetime
basis. Yet Rubio has sought to grow that number vastly. In 2015, Rubio introduced an
immigration bill which would have allowed for an unlimited increase in Muslim migration.
[Link]
One wonders if Rubio's love of amnesty
is payback. His grandfather was ordered deported by a judge after flying in
from Cuba without a visa. [Link]
Trade Agreements - Remember Ted Cruz voting for Fast Track for the TPP trade
agreement? Well guess who cast the deciding 60th vote to give Obama Fast Track?
Yep, it was Marco Rubio!
The entire purpose of fast-track is for
Congress to surrender its power to the Executive for six years. Legislative
concessions include: control over the content of legislation, the power to
fully consider that legislation on the floor, the power to keep debate open
until Senate cloture is invoked, and the constitutional requirement that
treaties receive a two-thirds vote. Legislation cannot even be amended.
By contrast, without fast-track,
Congress retains all of its legislative powers, individual
members retain all of their procedural tools, and every single line, jot, and
tittle of trade text is publicly available before any congressional action is
taken. [Link]
Tell me again how Republicans are the
stop gap to Obama's destruction of America!
Food Stamp Reform - Marco Rubio is almost the only republican to take the democrat’s
side on this bill. The bill would have saved taxpayers about 10 billion a year
by blocking families with substantial assets from receiving food stamps.
When Rubio served as speaker in the
Florida House, he stopped bills from coming to the floor that would have
deported illegal immigrants in state prisons and that would have denied food
stamps to illegal immigrants.
He even stopped a bipartisan proposal
that would have allowed the deportation of about 5,000 illegal immigrants in
Florida prisons, provided they had served half their sentence and agreed to be
deported. Similar legislation saved $141 million and $13 million in prison
costs in New York and Arizona.
Cap and Trade - As Florida speaker, Marco Rubio aggressively pushed for Florida
to adapt to the inevitable federal "cap and trade program." Cap and
trade is an environmental system that hardcore liberals including former Vice
President Al Gore support. A federal cap and trade program would be centered
around a carbon tax.
Watch Rubio Back Cap and Trade:
Worst Attendance Record -
Rubio's attendance record for votes is one of the worst in Senate history. His
seat is regularly empty for floor votes, committee meetings and intelligence
briefings. He even missed the vote on Obama's Omnibus bill which he probably
would have voted for anyway, although he stated the outcome was predetermined.
That outrageous $1.1 Trillion Omnibus
Bill funds the most horrendous programs, which also locks in huge spending
increases!
• funds entirely Obama's 2012 executive amnesty for “DREAMers”—or
illegal immigrants who came to the country as minors and has granted around
700,000 illegal aliens with work permits, as well as the ability to receive tax
credits and federal entitlement programs
• funds sanctuary cities (remember Kathryn Steinle)
• funds all refugee programs
• funds illegal alien resettlement
• quadruples H-2B foreign worker visas
• funds the release of criminal aliens
• funds tax credits for illegal aliens, and much more
• funds sanctuary cities (remember Kathryn Steinle)
• funds all refugee programs
• funds illegal alien resettlement
• quadruples H-2B foreign worker visas
• funds the release of criminal aliens
• funds tax credits for illegal aliens, and much more
Political Influence
While the Majority Whip of Florida
House, Rubio used his official position to urge state regulators to grant a
real estate license to his brother-in-law, a convicted cocaine trafficker who
had been released from prison 20 months earlier, according to records obtained
by The Washington Post. [Link]
Marco Rubio's brother-in-law was the
'front man' for a multi-million dollar cocaine-smuggling ring headed by a drug
kingpin who ran the operation from an exotic animal sanctuary, it has been
revealed.
Orlando Cicilia was arrested for his
part in the illicit operation in 1987 during Miami's narcotics heyday when
Republican presidential hopeful Rubio was just 16. Cicilia, 58, who is now
working as a real estate agent, served just 12 years in prison despite being
sentenced to 35 for his part in the scheme.