Why Sen. Rick Scott wants to rescue America

Florida Sen. Rick Scott upset a lot of people in Washington last month when he released an 11-point Rescue America plan touching on everything from education to immigration to taxes.

As he noted in a Washington Examiner opinion article published Monday, Democratic National Committee Chairman Jamie Harrison even called it a “fascist manifesto.” Scott ably defended the contents of the plan in his piece, but last week, the Washington Examiner also sat down with Scott to find out why he introduced his plan now. The following includes excerpts from that conversation.