The formerly golden boy pouts.

The formerly golden boy pouts.

“That’s why I’m missing votes. Because I am leaving the Senate. I am not running for reelection,” Rubio said in the last Republican debate, after Donald Trump had mocked him for his unusual number of absences during Senate votes.

Marco Rubio hates his current job as senator, so he's mostly stopped doing it. Now he's trying to argue that he should get a giant promotion ...he stopped doing his current job ? Or something?Okay, Marco, but you still have more than a year left in your term. The fact that you're not trying to keep your current job past January, 2017, doesn't mean it's not your job now. If you want it to be not your job now, you can resign immediately. In fact, in one of your rare recent appearances in the Senate, you argued for legislation saying that "if you work at the V.A., and you aren't doing your job, they get to fire you" (without due process) because "there is really no other job in the country where if you don't do your job, you don't get fired." Really, none?

Rubio's not going to stop trying to package his failure to do his job as something inspiring and principled, though:



“I’m not missing votes because I’m on vacation,” he told CNN on Sunday. “I’m running for president so that the votes they take in the Senate are actually meaningful again.”

... And if, after a year as president, you are frustrated at dealing with Congress and you don't feel the votes they're taking in the Senate are meaningful, and you hate that job like the one you have now, what happens then? Do we end up with a president who refuses to do his job just as Florida now has a senator who refuses to do his job?

A "longtime friend from Florida" tells the Washington Post that "he hates it."

Lots of people do hate their jobs. Most of them don't have the luxury of showing up when they feel like it and still drawing a six-figure paycheck. That Rubio thinks he can spin that into some kind of brave stance against the status quo shows how much he's bought his own PR and how deep his sense of entitlement runs.