INTRODUCING, MARCO RUBIO, A NEW LEADER FOR A NEW GENERATION
Marco Rubio, the young Republican Senator from Florida is a national treasure. He has been compared the Ronald Reagan, has been asked time and again if he would consider running for president, not just by conservatives, but by liberals as well, and he is moving very fast up the ranks of the Republican Party as this report is being written. GQ Magazine now considers him the third most powerful man in Washington. He is a T.E.A. (Tax Enough Already) Party favorite, and seen as a rising presidential star for the race in four, possibly, eight years.
He is by far the most articulate spokesperson the GOP and the T.E.A. Party have in representing their points of view and how these can be crafted into effective government policies that could revolutionize America’s dying economy and revitalize it into a new era of growth, prosperity, and liberty. His rhetoric is Reaganesque, and like Reagan, he believes fervently in the American ideal of small government, no waste, less spending, a government that lives within its means, across the board tax breaks, and American Exceptionalism.
The Left fear him and with good reason. He is the epitome of the American Dream and a real contender to become president some day. He is the son of Cuban Refugees who fled Castro’s tyranny. He’s young, handsome, an articulate conservative, a dynamic speaker, and an effective leader with a growing following across the nation. He’s even a part-time teacher at Florida International University, where he’s currently teaching politics to America’s future leaders.
He is unabashedly patriotic, and non-apologetic about America’s exceptionalism and leadership role in the world, and at a time when America is working under this administration to undermine Israel’s legitimacy, Senator Rubio is one of Israel’s most staunch supporters in the US Senate. He has defended time and again the right and legitimacy of Israel to exist as a uniquely Jewish State, and of America’s commitment to supporting it against its enemies.
This is most assuring at a time when this administration is working in front and behind the scenes to undermine this nation’s unique relationship with its most reliable and trusted ally in the Middle East as it is doing throughout that troubled region, and as it has already has done in Egypt. This is what Human Events writes about then Senator-Elect Rubio:
“They are afraid of Marco Rubio. He is not just a conservative, but one of the most articulate and persuasive conservatives of his generation. He ran a virtually flawless campaign against tremendous odds and has a life story as dramatic as Obama’s which he relates as fluently and convincingly as a young Reagan.
“These are the qualities that have made him such a hero to conservatives in Florida and around the country, but Democrats fear Rubio for another and to them far more important reason.
“It’s bad enough that the man is both a conservative and one of the most articulate candidates of either party to face America’s voters this fall. What they saw as far worse, however, was that if Rubio won, he might well become not just a GOP super star, but a conservative Republican Hispanic superstar with the talent to severely cripple the Democratic stranglehold on a crucial Democratic voting bloc.
“They were right, of course, but Marco Rubio won on Tuesday and their worst nightmare could come true sooner than they imagined.”
From Marco Rubio: The Democrats' Worse Nightmare by David Keene
WHILE THE GOP LEADERSHIP IN THE HOUSE & SENATE FLOUNDER & QUAKE IN FEAR, SENATOR RUBIO EXUDES LEADERSHIP & DETERMINATION IN THE FACE OF CHILDISH OBSTINANCE & IDEOLOGICAL INTRANSIGENCE FROM THIS PRESIDENT IN THE FACE OF THE WORST ECONOMIC CRISIS
Senator Rubio puts the RINO (Republicans In Name Only) checkered pants, pink tied Rockefeller Republican elites to shame. His lucid, and clear well thought out opinions and policy recommendations are a breath of fresh air in comparison the frightened reactionary policies being put forward by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R. Kentucky), and US House Majority Leader John Boehner (R. Ohio).
This is the type of leadership the Republican Party needs if it is to defeat the destructive bankrupting policies of Barack Obama and his party. The McConnell Plan will allow Obama to spend up to an additional two trillion dollars and raise the debt ceiling, exactly what Obama and the Democrats have been demanding of the Republicans. Thus far, the only thing the Republicans have not compromised on is new across the board taxes on every working American, what Obama and the Democrats and their media allies call, taxing the rich.
MARCO RUBIO & WHY HE WON’T VOTE TO RAISE THE DEBT CEILING IN HIS OWN WORDS
By MARCO RUBIO
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704425804576220670543010068.html
Americans have built the single greatest nation in all of human history. But America's exceptionalism was not preordained. Every generation has had to confront and solve serious challenges and, because they did, each has left the next better off. Until now.
Our generation's greatest challenge is an economy that isn't growing, alongside a national debt that is. If we fail to confront this, our children will be the first Americans ever to inherit a country worse off than the one their parents were given.
Current federal policies make it harder for job creators to start and grow businesses. Taxes on individuals are complicated and set to rise in less than two years. Corporate taxes will soon be the highest in the industrialized world. Federal agencies torment job creators with an endless string of rules and regulations.
On top of all this, we have an unsustainable national debt. Leaders of both parties have grown our government for decades by spending money we didn't have. To pay for it, they borrowed $4 billion a day, leaving us with today's $14 trillion debt. Half of that debt is held by foreign investors, mostly China. And there is no plan to stop. In fact, President Obama's latest budget request spends more than $46 trillion over the next decade. Under this plan, public debt will equal 87% of our economy in less than 10 years. This will scare away job creators and lead to higher taxes, higher interest rates and greater inflation.
Betting on America used to be a sure thing, but job creators see the warning signs that our leaders ignore. Even the world's largest bond fund, PIMCO, recently dumped its holdings of U.S. debt.
We're therefore at a defining moment in American history. In a few weeks, we will once again reach our legal limit for borrowing, the so-called debt ceiling. The president and others want to raise this limit. They say it is the mature, responsible thing to do.
In fact, it's nothing more than putting off the tough decisions until after the next election. We cannot afford to continue waiting. This may be our last chance to force Washington to tackle the central economic issue of our time.
"Raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure." So said then-Sen. Obama in 2006, when he voted against raising the debt ceiling by less than $800 billion to a new limit of $8.965 trillion. As America's debt now approaches its current $14.29 trillion limit, we are witnessing leadership failure of epic proportions.
I will vote to defeat an increase in the debt limit unless it is the last one we ever authorize and is accompanied by a plan for fundamental tax reform, an overhaul of our regulatory structure, a cut to discretionary spending, a balanced-budget amendment, and reforms to save Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
There is still time to accomplish all this. Rep. Dave Camp has already introduced proposals to lower and simplify our tax rates, close loopholes, and make permanent low rates on capital gains and dividends. Even Mr. Obama has endorsed the idea of lowering our corporate tax rate. Sen. Rand Paul, meanwhile, has a bill that would require an up-or-down vote on "major" regulations, those that cost the economy $100 million or more. And the House has already passed a spending plan this year that lowered discretionary spending by $862 billion over 10 years.
Such reductions are important, but nondefense discretionary spending is a mere 19% of the budget. Focusing on this alone would lead to draconian cuts to essential and legitimate programs. To get our debt under control, we must reform and save our entitlement programs.
No changes should be made to Medicare and Social Security for people who are currently in the system, like my mother. But people decades away from retirement, like me, must accept that reforms are necessary if we want Social Security and Medicare to exist at all by the time we are eligible for them.
Finally, instead of simply raising the debt limit, we should reassure job creators by setting a firm statutory cap on our public debt-to-GDP ratio. A comprehensive plan would wind down our debt to sustainable levels of approximately 60% within a decade and no more than half of the economy shortly thereafter. If Congress fails to meet these debt targets, automatic across-the-board spending reductions should be triggered to close the gap. These public debt caps could go in tandem with a Constitutional balanced budget amendment.
Some say we will go into default if we don't increase the debt limit. But if we simply raise it once again, without a real plan to bring spending under control and get our economy growing, America faces the very real danger of a catastrophic economic crisis.
I know that by writing this, I am inviting political attack. When I proposed reforms to Social Security during my campaign, my opponent spent millions on attack ads designed to frighten seniors. But demagoguery is the last refuge of the spineless politician willing to do anything to win the next election.
Whether they admit it or not, everyone in Washington knows how to solve these problems. What is missing is the political will to do it. I ran for the U.S. Senate because I want my children to inherit what I inherited: the greatest nation in human history. It's not too late. The 21st century can also be the American Century. Our people are ready. Now it's time for their leaders to join them.
Mr. Rubio, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from Florida.
From an article by Senator Rubio in the Wall Street Journal Opinion Column, titled, Why I Won't Vote to Raise the Debt Limit
SENATOR MCCONNELL’S PLAN IS INEXPLICABLE
If passed, the McConnell Plan will secure Obama a second term as president and bring the Republican Party down to defeat for a generation to come. It will destroy what little credibility the Republican Leadership has with the American people, as they will be seen as compromisers with the Left Wing Democrats, and will feel that they have been sold out to the special interests of Barack Obama’s base. Is it any wonder then that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D. Nevada) and other Democrats, support the McConnell Plan?
The McConnell Plan by itself is inexplicable. Why would Mitch McConnell, leader of the Republicans in the Senate, propose a plan that falls so short of what the American people want, and cede to the Executive Branch (President Obama) both the powers to spend that according to the Constitution, only congress possesses, and raise the debt ceiling another $2trillion, while also increasing taxes on the American electorate during the longest lasting and deepest Recession in this nation’s history, which some have already begun to identify as a Depression?
MITCH MCCONNELL & JOHN BOEHNER COME TO OBAMA’S RESCUE WITH A PLAN TO HELP HIM GET REELECTED IN 2012
The only reason that a sitting Senate Minority Leader of a supposed “opposition party” would do such a thing is that the person in question is doing the only politically possible thing to do that will allow the president to claim his victory, and help him win reelection, while making the Republican T.E.A. Party conservatives appear as the holdouts who held the country hostage with the debt ceiling. Obama can then make the astounding claim, and watch for him to do this, as he is already posturing in this manner; that he’s the only reasonable person in these negotiations, that he’s looking out for the country’s best interest, and that the Republicans are intransigent and unreliable.
All of this is what the Republican Leadership of both houses are giving to Obama. In return, they are seeking to marginalize the T.E.A. Party Senators and Congressmen among them, and to bring into line any stray conservatives who might attempt to force a change in the house and senate leadership and the leadership of the party. It is not the T.E. A. Party conservatives who are betraying the American people, it is the RINO’s like John McCain, Mitch McConnell, Lindsay Graham (R. South Carolina), John Boehner, and many other so-called “moderate” and liberal Republicans.
Everyone knows by now that Barack Obama is the real obstacle to real progress with regards controlling the deficit, reducing the size, spending, and regulatory reach of government, and just about every other major policy issue the nation faces in this economic crsis. The problem is that the RINOs who control the reigns of power within the Republican Party, are working hard to marginalize conservatives within the party in order to keep the status quo with the Democratic Party. They are the biggest opponents of real change and real reform apart from the Democratic Party.
RINOS & THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM & THE STATUS QUO HAVE GOTTEN THIS COUNTRY INTO THIS MESS
The Two Party System has given US a history of corruption and deficit government spending. RINOs like Richard Nixon, saddled the nation with Wage and Price Controls, took our money off of the Gold Standard, allowing he monetization of our currency to be put into the hands of a small elite within the Federal Reserve System, gave US the EPA, OSHA, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Education, and some of the most onerous federal regulations and abuse of power in our nation’s history.
Those like Boehner, McConnell, McCain, Lindsay Graham, who wish to keep the status quo desire to preserve the old political structure within Washington while they, like their counterparts on the other side of the isle, like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid; give platitudes about the need for change and reform in the nation’s capital. What they really want to mask additional pork barrel spending under the guise of these pieces of legislation so they may preserve the flow of money coming in and assure themselves reelection.
THE ALPHABET SOUP GOVERNMENT-MEDIA COMPLEX IS AGAIN COMPLICIT IN MISLEADING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN ORDER TO HELP OBAMA
The media is doing them service by falsely presenting the American people as supporting Obama, the Democrats, and the Republican Leadership against the TEA Party conservatives and their policies which would bring real fiscal, monetary, and tax reforms to Washington, and usher in an era of real substantive growth in our economy, not seen since the Reagan Revolution during the 80s and Post Reagan Revolution which followed during the 90s.
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