Marco Rubio named to lead Senate Intelligence Committee

[Soph0571]

Republican Senator Marco Rubio, a strong critic of China and Cuba, was named Monday to chair the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee while previous head Richard Burr is investigated in an insider trading scandal.

“The senior senator for Florida is a talented and experienced Senate leader with expertise in foreign affairs and national security matters,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in announcing the temporary appointment.

“On subjects ranging from China and Russia to Iran and North Korea to tyranny and unrest in our own hemisphere, Senator Rubio has been on the case for years.”

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/marco-rubio-named-to-lead-senate-intelligence-committee/|]

God grief. Way to ratchet up the diplomatic war with China. My partner and I were talking earlier about if Trump republicans carry on with the evil China rhetoric, they may start to call in the debt. The market will be flooded with cheap dollars and the US will be fucked. I think Rubio being given this job will not help this scenario. If China does this, and they really could, what is happening right now in America with a 20% unemployment rate will be nothing in comparison, if they call in their chips.

[Iliyah]

1. He is not bright . . .

they are going downward

[yellowcanine]

2. Not bright but probably almost as bright as Burr.

[jls4561]

3. Senate Intelligence Committee Leader

[imanamerican63]

4. A Trump altar boy!

Kissing Trump’s golden throne!

[Chainfire]

5. His leading qualification

is loyalty to the President.

[Yavin4]

6. First order of business, rename the committee.

How about Senate "Florida Man" Committee

[Submariner]

7. I thought it was kind of amazing that he thought he had the chops to be POTUS

He must have thought, gee, if Obama can do it as a freshman senator at his young age, this is going be easy especially since I'm not Black. He's nothing but a naive Miami street snowflake with zero creds.

[liberal N proud]

8. Rubio and intelligence in the same sentence is an oxymoron

[FloridaBlues]

9. This will not end well with Rubio as chair of this committee

[maxsolomon]

10. Burr is out because he won't protect Trump entirely.

Rubio will, and will push fraudulent investigations during the campaign, despite the outrageous insults Trump leveled at him in 2016.

Party over Country.

[keithbvadu2]

11. Little Marco should stick to his area of expertise - Trump's genitals.