Rick Scott, richest senator, is expressing no regret 4 plan 2 expire social sec & medicare. Gop upse
But during the seven weeks of turmoil since Scott dropped a provocative conservative policy bomb on an unsuspecting party - a plan that called for tax increases and expiration dates for all federal laws, including those establishing Social Security and Medicare - he has not once expressed regret. Instead, the former hospital chain CEO and two-term governor, the richest man in the Senate, argues that he owes his detractors nothing.
"My whole life has been people telling me that, you know, you're doing it the wrong way. You can't, you shouldn't be doing this," he said in a recent interview at NRSC headquarters. "I've been up here for three years. Do you know how many people have come to me and asked me, before they vote, what my opinion is on something and whether it's good for my state? That would be zero."
Barbs like these from the inner sanctum of GOP leadership toward his fellow senators and political operatives have cut unexpected fissures into what appears to be a banner election year for Republicans, who are a single seat away from majority control of the Senate. Private grumbling about how Scott has turned the NRSC into the "National Rick Scott Committee" has become widespread enough in some Republican circles that other jokes have been added. "All this, for 4% in Iowa," is the punchline of one about the harm he could do to Republican fortunes in November in pursuit of national ambitions.
During a Feb. 28 meeting with Senate leadership in McConnell's office, other senators brought articles that showed members being attacked for various parts of his plan, particularly the tax provision and another imposing term limits.
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Those close to Scott describe him as a man with few hobbies beyond work, who wakes at 4:30 a.m. each morning and aims to be in bed by 9 p.m. He sticks closely to a minute-by-minute schedule and monitors his weight and calories closely - egg whites and fish are mainstays.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Rick-Scott-became-the-Senate-GOP-s-election-17087992.php
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It's apparently a THING among Republicans like Scott who likely practice testicle tanning, now that Tucker has let the fuggly truth out of the sack, so to speak.
