Headline: “Marco Rubio Suggests He’s Reconsidering Leaving Senate”

Well, of course. It’s a guaranteed $174,000 salary every year, and while he stopped showing up for work (remember that Trump among other of his opponents made hay talking about all his missed votes during the primary campaign) he didn’t stop getting paid.

In the past, including while running for president, Rubio had made little secret of his disdain for the Senate, its slow pace and general dysfunction. He began missing numerous Senate votes, which he justified by suggesting he was doing something more important. But recently he’s revised his views on the Senate, disputing suggestions that he hated it, and instead insisting he found the work important.

Remember also that he’s had financial troubles of his own making in the past when he mixed personal with business expenses on party credit cards.

No, I suspect no corporations are breaking down his doors offering him directorships with minimal meetings to attend but with generous compensation, and his wife apparently doesn’t work outside the home, so I think he needs the steady income. I can’t entirely blame him for deciding that, but we’ll have to see if he works any harder if he’s re-elected. I hope he loses, not because I have anything in particular against him, but because we need a Democratic Senate to back up President Clinton.