The 39-year-old freshman Republican senator from Florida has waited over two months since taking office to give national media outlets interviews. But now that he’s hit the media circuit, it’s clear that Marco Rubio is an effective spokesman for limited government conservatism.

ABC News’s Jonathan Karl got the first exclusive interview with Rubio, and while the media focus from that interview has been on Rubio’s potential as a national candidate in 2012, the more interesting bits come when he’s talking about the impending debt crisis and out of control spending. Watch the whole interview: