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Santorum Can’t Name Any Rubio Accomplishments

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Despite endorsing him for president, Rick Santorum struggled in a Morning Joe interview to list any of Marco Rubio’s accomplishments.

Said Santorum: “Well, I know he included something that went after the insurance companies in the most recent omnibus.  He fought for that, to stop bailing out insurance companies.  That’s one thing I’m familiar that I just saw recently. But — and again, he was on the campaign trail and accomplished that.”

He added: “The bottom line is there isn’t a lot of accomplishments, Joe, and I just don’t think it’s a fair question to say — over the last four years where nothing has happened and then blame one person because he didn’t get accomplishments done.  Neither did President Obama.”

Gov. Chris Christie piled on in a later interview: “Rubio has not accomplished anything of note in his career in the United States Senate or in his time as speaker of the house in Florida. So it’s time for the boy in the bubble to come out of the bubble and answer these questions and tell us things rather than just continue to give the same speech he’s been giving for the last 6 years.”

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