Marco Rubio: The Republicans Need To Be Held Accountable

Florida Republican Senate nominee Marco Rubio aligned with the Tea Party movement appeared on CBS’ Face the Nation yesterday and was asked by host Bob Schieffer about the Tea Party, and the role of both Democrats and Republicans in terms of the country’s current problems. Expressing the candid assessment that has made him very popular, Rubio did not shy away from laying some of the blame on his own party, the GOP.

Rubio said that politics today is “full of people that think they can say or do anything, because once they get elected they think they’ll raise so much money they can make you forget.”

Rubio took on Florida’s popular incumbent Governor Charlie Crist in the primary for the Republican Senate nomination and won. (Crist left the party before the primary and is now running as an independent.)

The candidate, who has become one of the poster boys of the Tea Party movement, said that Republicans need to be held accountable.

“Remember, the Republicans had a majority in Washington for the better part of 10 to 12 years. They didn’t fulfill some of the promises they had made in ’94 when they were elected – things like a balance budget amendment, things like banning earmarks, things like term limits,” Rubio said.

Rubio also explained his role with the Tea Party movement, and went into great detail about his personal finances, amidst some criticism that he’s been less than forth coming with use of a GOP backed credit card.

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