Marco Rubio, David Vitter in nasty spat over immigration and other matters

WASHINGTON — It’s getting nasty between Republican senators David Vitter of Louisiana and Marco Rubio of Florida. An unnamed Rubio associate struck back at Vitter after the Louisiana senator went on Laura Ingraham’s radio talk show to say Rubio was being “amazingly naïve” and “nuts” for signing onto a bipartisan immigration bill.

According to Politico, it received an email from a “source close to Rubio” saying that “David Vitter has done some nuttier things in his life.” It was an apparent reference to Vitter’s 2007 admission that his phone number had appeared on the records of a Washington escort service.

Vitter had immediately criticized the immigration plan developed by four Democrats and four Republicans, including Rubio, on grounds that there’s little reason to think the enforcement of U.S. Immigration laws called for in the proposal will actually get done.

“I love and respect Marco,” Vitter told Laura Ingraham Wednesday. “I think he’s just amazingly naive on this issue. This is the same old formula that we’ve dealt with before, including when it passed in 1986, and that is promises of enforcement and immediate amnesty.”

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