Of course they’re going to sabotage it. Of course they are:
The historic plan announced by President Obama on Wednesday to normalize relations with Cuba was met with heavy bipartisan resistance on Capitol Hill, raising questions of whether Congress will even consider easing a more than 50-year trade embargo against the communist state — let alone end it.
Obama said the United States will cease what he called an “outdated approach” with Cuba, and take steps to normalize diplomatic relations — including opening an embassy in Havana — after American Alan Gross was released from the country following five years in prison as part of an agreement that also included the release of three Cubans jailed in the U.S.
Obama also called on Congress to have an “honest and serious debate” about lifting the trade embargo, which has been in place since 1962.
But Republicans, and even some Democrats, pushed back strongly, with some GOP heavy hitters calling Obama’s plan “another concession to tyranny.”
“These changes will lead to legitimacy for a government that shamelessly continuously abuses human rights but it will not lead to assistance for those whose rights are being abused,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said Wednesday.
“It’s absurd and it’s part of a long record of coddling dictators and tyrants,” Rubio told Fox News, claiming the administration is “constantly giving away unilateral concessions … in exchange for nothing.” Rubio called Obama the “worst negotiator” the U.S. has had as president “since at least Jimmy Carter.” He also said Congress would not support lifting the embargo.
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell also criticized the administration’s plan to change the current U.S. relationship with Cuba. McConnell said he defers to Rubio on the matter.
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., who, like Rubio, is a Cuban-American lawmaker, said this is a moment of “profound relief” for Gross and his family. But he voiced concerns that this constituted a “swap of convicted spies for an innocent American.”
What is wrong with the Democratic Senators in the Mid-Atlantic states??? Bob Casey (PA) sounds like Joe Lieberman. Chuck Schumer (NY) acts like the idiot son of Zionist Netanyahu. Chris Coons (DEL) seems never to have met a Republican proposal that he’s not in love with. Then we have Robert Menendez of New Jersey. This clown is no more a Democrat then Chris Christie is thin. Menendez is a Republican. He talks like a Republican. He acts like a Republican. He positions himself on every issue like a Republican. Hell, he even walks like a Republican. That self-assured, I’m always right kind of gate of Marco Rubio.
So why doesn’t Robert Menendez put an end to his charade and switch parties? Maybe that way the Pope will forgive his ruthlessness and duplicity.
CPP points out that Rubio is just barely back from his junket to China where the commies picked up the tab.