The award for most craven politician today goes to the well-deserving little shit Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). You remember Marco, the guy who justified his run for president on how much he hated being in the Senate, then said he was basing his decision to run again for the job he said he hated on the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Now he's got another justification, the Supreme Court.
Rubio, at the Republican Party of Florida's new victory office in Lee County, said he had a lot of reasons to rejoin the race in June, but focused on the eventual replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia who died earlier this year.
"And now the balance of power in the U.S. Supreme Court is going to be determined by the next Senate and the next president who will appoint but the next Senate must confirm," Rubio said.
Rubio went further, warning that if Democrat Patrick Murphy wins in November, he would be a "rubber stamp for Hillary's agenda, if God forbid she were elected." And like he did earlier in the week, warned supporters that if Democrats win the majority in November, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is in line to become the Senate Majority Leader.
Yes, that's Rubio implicitly saying that Donald Trump—who he called a "dangerous" "con-man" who would "fracture" the Republican party—is the guy he wants to be naming the next Supreme Court justices.
He's also telling the people of Florida to return him to the job he hates so that he can keep doing what he and fellow Republicans have done for President Obama's two terms in office—obstruct a potential President Clinton. So here's Rubio, who hated the Senate so much that he rarely bothered to even show up promising more of what he said made him hate the place—dysfunction. Could he be more transparently craven?
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