Washington – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio said on Wednesday he would “make every effort” to block moves by President Barack Obama toward normalizing relations with the Cuban government.
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“The president’s decision to reward the Castro regime and begin the path toward the normalization of relations with Cuba is inexplicable,” Rubio said in a statement.
The Florida Republican senator, who is Cuban-American, said he would use his role as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Western Hemisphere subcommittee in the new Congress to try to block the plan.
Reality is that the Bay of Pigs, FAILED. Castro is dying. It’s time to move on and get another Caribbean island for Pesach.
Rubio and the other blathering Repubs will fulminate and rant but it will accomplish nothing other than to reveal them as ideologues with zero sense of reality. We recognize Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and a bunch of other countries with terrible human rights records because its better to engage than ignore them.
Talk less, do more. The legislative branch has no control whatsoever on foreign policy.
Rubio became “yesterday’s news” yesterday when Jeb Bush took all the oxygen out of the Florida political airspace by declaring his intention to run. By the time he gets to Iowa, Rubio won’t be able find anyone who will second his nomination so to speak. He was running at about 3 percent support BEFORE Bush announced yesterday and I suspect that his polling will be even lower now. There aren’t enough Cuban American voters to elect him dog-catcher in Miami.
The fact of the matter is that the USA established diplomatic relations with China, in 1979, after not recognizing it for thirty years. Also, in 1995, the USA recognized Vietnam, after engaging in a war with that country, for over a decade. What sense does it make to have a boycott against, and not have any diplomatic presence in a country, which is only 90 miles from Key West? The politicians should stop bowing down to the Cuban-Americans in Florida, who have politically, prevented any normalization with Cuba for over fifty years. As Winston Churchill once stated, “it is better to jaw, jaw, than to war, war”. If Richard Nixon was able to travel to China in 1972, then Barack Obama should be able to make an official visit to Havana, before his term expires.
This guy should get in sync with the American people. Anyway, it is good for business so normalization will proceed with benefit to everyone especially the wonderful people of Cuba.
Since when is it news that a Republican plans to obstruct something? Call me when a Republican actually proposes legislation – that would be news!