'Waterworks': Spouting Off About Marco Rubio

We are in SO much trouble in this country it's both ridiculous and incredible at the same time.

Many people who have never even heard of Florida senator Marco Rubio now know about him after one simple 'incident'.

'Watergate' as some have called it, or 'Waterworks', which I just came up with after the infamous Kevin Costner flop.

Kevin Costner

A brief extra reach by Rubio for a sip of water during his Republican response to the president's State of the Union address Tuesday quickly went viral.

The senator himself was smart enough to make light of the situation, tweeting a pic of the "offending" water bottle.

The larger message is, however, is that the larger message gets lost because of one dopey moment.

Under this president we have runaway deficits, more people than ever on food stamps, inner cities that may be razed and a foreign policy that's all over the map.

Maybe Rubio's "foible" provided a brief dose of humor in a really bad time for this nation. But the attention of the "style" of the speech, or lack of in that one awkward moment, over the substance is disappointing and disturbing.

But due to this nation's short attention span I am having 'Waterworks' for FAR different reasons right now.