Quote:Sorry, senator, but Floridians sent you to Washington to do a job. We've got serious problems with clogged highways, eroding beaches, flat Social Security checks and people who want to shut down the government.
If you hate your job, senator, follow the honorable lead of House Speaker John Boehner and resign it.

Let us elect someone who wants to be there and earn an honest dollar for an honest day's work. Don't leave us without one of our two representatives in the Senate for the next 15 months or so. [...]

True, it's not easy to raise money and run a presidential campaign while doing your day job. But two other candidates — Sens. Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders — have missed only 10 Senate votes during their campaigns for the White House. You, on the other hand, have missed 59, according to a tally by Politico. This includes votes on the Keystone pipeline, the Export-Import Bank and trade, to name just a few.

(10-28-2015 12:43 PM)Max Power Wrote:  Where's your evidence? I don't remember it being that bad, and them being called out on it, and either Obama or Hillary expressing open contempt for the office they held back them

(10-28-2015 12:59 PM)Max Power Wrote:  I'm of the opinion that Obama didn't completely neglect his senate duties and miss important votes while running for president.

Quote:Rubio has missed 44.6 per cent of his Senate votes since launching his presidential campaign,
Barack Obama missed 89.4 of his votes during the last quarter of 2007 while he was a U.S. senator running for president
Senator Hillary Clinton missed 83.5 per cent of her votes in the same quarter

(10-28-2015 01:06 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  I mean, a very simple Google would have saved you this embarrasment...

Quote:Rubio has missed 44.6 per cent of his Senate votes since launching his presidential campaign,
Barack Obama missed 89.4 of his votes during the last quarter of 2007 while he was a U.S. senator running for president
Senator Hillary Clinton missed 83.5 per cent of her votes in the same quarter

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3290381/Marco-no-Rubio-defends-Senate-absences-records-Senator-Barack-Obama-missed-votes-2008-campaign-s-early-going-Hillary-Clinton-ended-doing-worse.html

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/02/obama.missed.votes/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/05/01/ted-

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/10/democrats-will-have-a-hard-time-criticizing-rubios-voting-record.phpcruz-barack-obama-and-the-biggest-vote-missers-in-the-senate/

(10-28-2015 12:38 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  Liberals thought it just fine for Obama to do the exact same thing. But now it suddenly a concern?

(10-28-2015 01:19 PM)Max Power Wrote:  That's not an apples to apples comparison and it's very misleading for the DailyMail to compare Rubio's vote totals from his entire campaign to Obama's and Hillary's near the end. Obama and Hillary started missing votes altogether in November and December as the campaign between the two heated up and they were debating every week. Rubio started missing votes regularly a couple months ago, and now misses nearly all of them.

Regardless, like I said, they didn't miss important votes such as TPP, the Import Export bank and KXL. Missing votes on renaming post offices or whether to call the Iranian Rev Guard a "terrorist group" is far less consequential and more forgivable.

(10-28-2015 01:19 PM)Max Power Wrote:  That's not an apples to apples comparison and it's very misleading for the DailyMail to compare Rubio's vote totals

(10-28-2015 01:31 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(10-28-2015 12:38 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  Liberals thought it just fine for Obama to do the exact same thing. But now it suddenly a concern?

I seriously doubt liberals wrote this.

(10-28-2015 01:27 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  So 2 (or 3) wrongs make a right. Thanks for clearing that up.

(10-28-2015 01:42 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(10-28-2015 01:31 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(10-28-2015 12:38 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  Liberals thought it just fine for Obama to do the exact same thing. But now it suddenly a concern?

I seriously doubt liberals wrote this.

Max wrote it in post #6.

(10-28-2015 01:27 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  So 2 (or 3) wrongs make a right. Thanks for clearing that up.

How convenient for liberals to now be concerned about this....... but only concerned about how it's a potential Republican with the issue.

(10-28-2015 01:38 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  This guy hates his current job, hated his previous jobs, now wants me to elect him to a new job that he will hate.