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Marco Rubio: GOP bill 'political theatre'

Marco Rubio’s got star power, but the freshman senator says he didn’t come to Washington for “some absurd political theatre.”

The Florida Republican pledged Monday that he would not vote for any more short-term spending bills, including one proposed by House Republicans Friday that would fund the government for three weeks and includes $6 billion in savings.

"I commend the efforts of House and Senate Republican leaders to deal with this, but I did not come to the U.S. Senate to be part of some absurd political theatre. I will no longer support short-term budget plans,” Rubio wrote on the conservative blog Red State.

“While attempts at new spending reductions are commendable, we simply can no longer afford to nickel-and-dime our way out of the dangerous debt America has amassed.” 

Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah, tweeted his support for Rubio’s stance Monday morning. “It is time for permanent solution,” Lee said.

The House and Senate this week are expected to pass the short-term continuing resolution to avert a government shutdown on March 18. The stop-gap bill is expected to buy time as they negotiate a budget plan for the remaining seven months of fiscal year 2011.

Rubio, a tea-party hero, hit Democrats for their “unwillingness to engage” in efforts to address the debt, and he faulted President Barack Obama for his lack of leadership and being “absent from this debate.”

“It is time our leaders in Washington wake up and realize that we are headed for a debt disaster,” Rubio said.

“With Congress set to begin another week-long recess next week, every senator and representative should feel ashamed if they have to go home again, look their constituents in the eye, and explain why nothing is being done about our debt crisis.”