Rubio inexplicably applauds Snyder’s handling of Flint scandal

[TomCADem]

Hillary and Bernie both handled questions about the Flint scandal far better than any of the Republican candidates.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rubio-inexplicably-applauds-snyders-handling-flint-scandal

The co-moderator asked Rubio, “Without getting into the political blame game here, where are the national Republicans’ plans on infrastructure and solving problems like this? If you talk to people in this state, they are really concerned about Flint on both sides of the aisle. So why haven’t GOP candidates done more or talked more about this?”

The Florida senator’s response was one of the evening’s more unsettling answers.

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“And by the way, the politicizing of it I think is unfair, because I don’t think that someone woke up one morning and said, ‘Let’s figure out how to poison the water system to hurt someone.’

“But accountability is important. I will say, I give the governor credit. He took responsibility for what happened. And he’s talked about people being held accountable and the need for change, with Governor Snyder.