Marco Rubio stands with the Tea Party on most issues, with immigration not being one of them. On immigration issues, Rubio is far left of the Tea Party. This week Rubio introduced a bill in the senate to postpone ObamaCare for a year. As it stands now, the issue of ObamaCare is turning into a death nell for all Democrats who are standing for reelection in 2014. Republicans who criticized Cruz and the House Tea Party Republicans during the CR debates find themselves in the same boat. Since the rollout of ObamaCare has been such a debacle, these Republicans are going to have to answer a lot of uncomfortable questions. Specifically, here in SC, Graham is getting more than a bit of pushback.
If a Republican introduces a bill to delay ObamaCare and it passes with Republican support, the Democrats can say the bill is "bipartisan". This would take a LOT of heat off the Democrats and would lessen the impact of the issue in 2014. On the other hand, if the Democrats are forced to introduce a bill to delay ObamaCare themselves, they will own the toxic issue outright. How can they explain away their opposition just three weeks ago, to the point of "shutting down" the government? And how will the Republicans who so violently attacked Cruz and the House Tea Party Republicans, extricate themselves from criticism from their voters?
How would it work if the Republicans in question went to Rubio, a Tea Party favorite, and made a little deal? "Hey, Marco, if you will introduce this bill and get some of the heat off us, then we will support the "Comprehensive Immigration" bill Obama is proposing". There we go, again, with the conspiracy theories, you know, like ObamaCare.
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And what is up with Rand Paul endorsing Mitch Mconnell? Did the NRC promise him something in return for that ,I wonder?
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