Rubio: ‘There is no doubt’ Obama helped stoke recent political chaos

[RandySF]

TAMPA -- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Saturday that "There's no doubt" President Obama has helped stoke the caustic rhetoric and violence displayed at recent political rallies held by Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump.

Earlier Saturday, Rubio lashed out at his rival Trump for failing to condemn violent protests at his recent public events and lamented that the increasingly nasty nature of American politics "is now bleeding over into the broader culture." But he also faulted Obama, saying the president had contributed to the coarsening political debate.

Asked in an interview to give a specific example of how Obama has divided the country, Rubio cited an April 2011 speech used to criticize a budget proposal written by then-House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). With Ryan sitting in the audience, Obama said that the GOP's budgeting vision "is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in America."

"He basically said, 'If you agree with Paul Ryan’s budget, you don’t care about the disabled, you don’t care about the elderly, you don’t care about the poor,'" Rubio recalled. "There’s been numerous instances where he basically implies that if you don’t care with his gun control agenda than you didn’t care about the kids who died at Sandy Hook. Time and again he’s done that. There’s no doubt that he’s been a contributor to this."


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/12/rubio-there-is-no-doubt-obama-helped-stoke-recent-political-chaos/

[Firebrand Gary]

1. Awww poor Marco

Just can't get his name in the news unless its criticizing President Obama.

But then again, water gets him in the news. Along with robotics.

[7wo7rees]

2. WTF? This is out of control!!!

[dhill926]

3. it's a sad state of affairs...

when a lighter than air, little pipsqueak of a pissant, has a voice on the national stage...and is actually running for president.

[Ken Burch]

4. He does realize Obama isn't running this year, doesn't he?

[lpbk2713]

5. 2011?? This clown is ridiculous.

RethugliCONs have been obstructing Obama since even before his first
inauguration (2009). Take your political chaos and shove it water boy.

[Hekate]

6. Little Marco

What an *hole

[malaise]

8. He's an idiot

plain and simple

[quaker bill]

7. "is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in America."

That's it?

On most occasions the GOP would accept that as a badge of honor. They have actually run on the notion of "changing the basic social compact in America." This is the essence of the "makers versus takers" meme of the Rmoney campaign. This was simply the President naming what Ryan fully intended to do, and he used pretty polite language to do it.