Wall Street Journal (Opinion)
By Byron Tau
February 4, 2016
Hours
after he dropped out of the Republican nomination race and cast his lot
with Marco Rubio, former Sen. Rick Santorum wouldn’t name a single of
the Florida senator’s
accomplishments. Perhaps that’s because Mr. Rubio has disavowed the
most ambitious political endeavor with which he is associated —
immigration overhaul legislation despised by the Republican base.
On
Thursday morning Mr. Santorum, who ended his own presidential bid the
previous night after finishing near the bottom in the Iowa caucuses, was
pressed on MSNBC to assess
Mr. Rubio’s four-year record in the U.S. Senate.
“If
you look at being in the minority in the U.S. Senate in a year when
nothing got… four years where nothing got done, I guess it’s hard to say
there are accomplishments,”
Mr. Santorum said of Mr. Rubio, who was elected in 2010. The
Republicans took control of the Senate in the 2014 election.
But
MSBNC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski continued to push the
former Pennsylvania senator, in what seemed an effort to bait him into
acknowledging Mr. Rubio’s
role in crafting the 2013 immigration bill that would have provided a
pathway to citizenship for some illegal immigrants. The bill passed the
Senate with bipartisan support but died in the Republican-controlled
House.
Republican
primary voters tend to oppose a pathway to citizenship for illegal
immigrants, and Mr. Rubio has since attempted to distance himself from
the bill he co-sponsored.
“Jeb
Bush ran Florida. Donald Trump built a company,” Ms. Brzezinski said,
offering Mr. Santorum the opportunity to fill-in-the blank. “Marco
Rubio… Finish the sentence.”
“List
one accomplishment that Marco Rubio has achieved in four years in the
U.S. Senate. It doesn’t even have to be a passed bill,” Mr. Scarborough
said
Mr.
Santorum’s answer: “Marco Rubio was, number one, the speaker of the
Florida House, which is not something that’s a minor deal. I mean, he
was elected by his colleagues
to be the speaker of the House. Number two, yeah, he spent four years
in the U.S. Senate being frustrated like everybody else that nothing got
done.”
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