Marco Rubio has now made one of the most suspect—if not daftest—claims he's ever made about the 2013 "Gang of 8" immigration bill he helped author. Alex Jaffe reports:
Marco Rubio on Monday insisted the immigration reform bill he helped spearhead through the Senate was never intended to become law and that the authors of the bill expected conservatives in the House to make it "even better."
"The Senate immigration law was not headed towards becoming law," he told a questioner at a town hall in Rock Hill, S.C. "Ideally it was headed towards the House, where conservative members of the House were going to make it even better." [...] "But it was never going to go from there to the president's desk."
So you mean, Senator, you staked your entire future on a bill that you hoped would never actually become law in the form you wrote it? Wow, that's a claim we admittedly didn't see coming. Brilliant. So when you made that Sunday morning sweep of seven Sunday TV shows back in April 2013 touting the bill, you thought it was just a bunch of rubbish?
The Florida Republican appeared on seven weekly news programs, including two Spanish-language shows, to promote an immigration reform bill he and a bipartisan group of senators are preparing to unveil this week.
And then after it passed the Senate in June 2013 and you said it was pretty much in "perfect shape" to pass the House, you were just joshing.
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants and potential 2016 presidential candidate, said roughly 95 percent of the bill is in “perfect shape” and that the full chamber debates are off to a good start.
Hey, let’s give the guy some credit: most politicians shy away from legislation they oppose. But Marco Rubio just throws caution to the wind. Ballsy.
