Bernie Sanders Calls Out Marco Rubio For Embarrassing The Nation

[babylonsister]

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/12/bernie-sanders-calls-marco-rubio-embarrassing-nation.html

Bernie Sanders Calls Out Marco Rubio For Embarrassing The Nation
By: Jason Easley
Monday, May, 12th, 2014, 8:15 pm


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said what many are already thinking when he called out Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for embarrassing the nation.

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On The Ed Show, Sen. Bernie Sanders responded to Marco Rubio’s complete denial of climate change science by saying, “I gotta say this, Ed. I really gotta say this. Look, you and I have all kinds of differences with Republicans, but to totally reject what the scientific community is saying is really embarrassing for our nation, frankly.”

Sen. Sanders (I-VT) was reacting to Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) statement during an interview on ABC’s This Week yesterday. Rubio said, “I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it. That’s what I do not — and I do not believe that the laws that they propose we pass will do anything about it. Except it will destroy our economy.”

During the same interview, Rubio also claimed that he was ready to be president, which begs the question, president of what? Sen. Sanders has it right. Rubio’s comments were an embarrassment. They were also quite possibly the most shameless pander to Republican primary voters since Mitt Romney was running for the 2012 nomination.

Republicans may have to completely disconnect from reality if they want the support of their party, but they haven’t figured out yet that non-reality politics doesn’t win elections outside of the GOP. Republicans like Marco Rubio are embarrassing themselves, because they actually believe that they have a chance to be president.

Marco Rubio tends to embarrass himself on a regular basis, so this is nothing new. What is embarrassing is that Republicans like Rubio are making the rest of the nation look bad.

Sen. Big Gulp is a joke, but the joke isn’t funny. Rubio has no chance that he will be elected president in 2016. The American people need to follow the lead of Bernie Sanders and call out these disgraceful Republicans. The grown ups are trying to govern, and it’s clear that the GOP is not ready to sit at the adult table in American politics.

[Cha]

1. I actually think idiots like marco rubio make everyone else look like

brilliant scientists.. geniuses!

[Cha]

3. Rude agrees..

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10024942893

[Thinkingabout]

4. President of his high school class????

[99Forever]

5. Anyone else notice that...

... no prominent national Democrats have the spine to speak up to these freakin' nutjobs?

Well, maybe Bernie will run as a Dem ...

... I sure hope so.

[L0oniX]

6. Maybe he doesn't want to lower himself to the lessor of 2 evils or the ...we suck less party.

[CrispyQ]

17. And that's why we love him.

[BrotherIvan]

7. I have noticed

I also noticed they seem very chummy behind the scenes and at the correspondent's dinner. Kabuki is their gift to the little people.

[Scuba]

10. Yes, but you got there first. I'm not sure if the Dems are cowards or complicit.

[elzenmahn]

31. Follow. The. Money.

Most of the Dems in office today feed at the same money trough that the Repubs do.

[randome]

8. Rubio is so timid and nervous, he brings out my inner bully.

I want to see him humiliated even more than he has humiliated himself! Obviously it doesn't bother him so does that make me a bad person???
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[Martin Eden]

9. Call the Republicans what they are.

Speak the truth, and don't pull any punches.

Democrats should learn that lesson from Independent Bernie Sanders.

[SummerSnow]

11. You said it Ruboooo....

[malaise]

12. But he'll grab the water first - gulp

[secondvariety]

25. That never get's old.

[Enthusiast]

13. I don't think this idiot Rubio has a chance of winning the Republican nomination.

But climate change denial is a must to qualify.

[rurallib]

14. rubio denies science while Miami slowly drowns

hide your eyes, Marco, it won't be pretty.

[hawaii73]

15. Sheer Stupidity

I love Bernie Sanders and wish he was a lot more prominent on the talk show circuit. Always astute observations from him.

What utterly amazes me is how almost all Republicans (it might be every Republican) drink that deny climate change cocktail. I believe we (humans) have certainly had an impact on the environment. I am not a scientist and don't profess to know all the answer on this, but when you have well-respected scientists coming out and saying this is happening, I tend to believe them. What do some of these Fox-watching dimwits get denying all this data by people 100 times smarter than them. Fox and others parade people that represent oil companies or other similar interests and they pass these people off as experts on climate change. As I said, at times I question if this is all human related, but I guess Republicans deny it at every opportunity because the so-called "liberals" push it. Do they even have half a brain???

[calimary]

16. Senator Big Gulp!

[Moostache]

18. What concerns mne even more is WHY would he want be president THAT bad?

To sacrifice some of your core beliefs and compromise on things that you really want to do but must give ground to make incremental change is one thing...

To sell your integrity entirely and outright lie and deny facts in such a transparent and scripted way...its just sad.

[DFW]

19. Get out your Republicanese-English dictionaries

That wasn't "seawater" flooding the streets of Miami. It is now "moisture of an undetermined nature and origin."

Ron Ziegler is back. (Rubio even looks a little like him)

[randr]

20. Koch Roach Rubio

The only economy that will be "harmed" with laws to curb carbon pollution is the economy of the Koch family who do not know when enough is enough.

[Sheepshank]

21. Typical idiotic framing of the conversation

they make up shit, offer their opinion as if it were fact with no supporting evidence, and use it to refute science.

This type of thinking is no better than the Salem witch trials, or the Spanish Inquisition. In fact this type of thinking is clearly a throw back to pre-science era.

When will the Republican Politicus make the leap to the era of knowledge and science?

[Android3.14]

22. What an idiot

As if math depended on his opinion.

[Uncle Joe]

23. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.

[Distant Quasar]

24. Why are the icecaps observably melting, then? It must be a mystery!

We can't ever know! Just like the age of the earth, according to the senator from Florida:

"Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."

[lpbk2713]

26. Rubio's got his head up his ass.

The temp remains constant there.

[okaawhatever]

27. K & R nt

[DirkGently]

28. Even Rubio looks embarrassed saying those things.

But never understimate the Proudly Ignorant American vote. He's smarter and smoother than G.W., and look what happened there.

Gack.

[AtheistCrusader]

29. "The GOP is not ready to sit at the adult table in American politics."

That should be a headline, front page, every newspaper in America.

[Shoonra]

30. Please let Marco Rubio be the Republican nominee!

Please keep quiet about Marco Rubio being a jerk.
I want the Republicans to choose him as their Presidential nominee.
That way the Democrats will sweep the 2016 elections.