Rick Scott hopes to sunset entitlement programs. Does he want to do the same to his own career?
whether Republicans wanted to sunset Social Security and Medicare. “I mean, it’s just a bad idea. I think it will be a challenge for him to deal with this in his own re-election in Florida, a state with more elderly people than any other state in America.”introduced the"Protect Our Seniors Act"
on Friday. Among the bill's provisions is a proposed rule where if"any legislation will cause a cut or reduction in Medicare or Social Security," it would require two-thirds of Congress to approve it. It would seem the senator doth protest a littlemuch at this point, painting his party even further into a box against cutting entitlements down the road.
This isn’t to say that that there’s an especially deep pool of talent in the caucus to eventually take McConnell’s place. But Scott does seem uniquely bad at this game. At least Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri manage to at least build their personal brands with their self-aggrandizing stunts. In the world they occupy, where the Senate is a steppingstone to the White House or cable news hits, that makes sense — and they’ve never come directly for McConnell in the process.
Maybe Scott is also setting himself up for a future presidential bid, or maybe he really does just want to be the next Senate majority leader. If the latter, it would be a terrible move for Republicans to place their caucus in the hands of someone who has a skill for neither legislation nor national political strategy. Given what we’ve seen so far, that doesn’t seem likely to stop Scott from trying.
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