The Washington Post on November 8 jumped on the same apparent contradiction by Sen. Rubio – this time in an editorial from the left – tohim as “craven” in bending to pressure from the right. The paper described Sen. Rubio’s most recent statement on DACA as “ … expos[ing]to deportation proceedings the roughly 700,000 youths who have benefited from it.”
If Rubio was in fact trying to play both sides of the DACA amnesty issue, he succeeded as demonstrated from the fact that he is being attacked from both the right and the left.
It will be interesting to see if Rubio responds to this attack by further clarifying his support for a permanent amnesty for the “childhood arrival” illegal aliens. The Post editorial might have had the objective of trying to provoke that response in order to undercut conservative support for the Senator.