Washington – One of the leading Democratic critics of President Barack Obama’s change in Cuba policy says it will be very difficult to confirm an ambassador to the communist country.
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Sen. Robert Menendez is a Cuban-American who’s the soon-to-be ex-chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
He tells CNN’s “State of the Union” that Congress can do little to prevent the Obama administration from shifting the existing interests section in Cuba into an embassy. But he says Congress can refuse to confirm an ambassador and that’s it’s difficult to see a nominee winning Senate approval.
Menendez says he wasn’t told about the administration’s negotiations with Cuba, and that will make him more skeptical when administration officials testify to Congress.
The Republicans and Menendez can continue to worship the aging Cuban-American voters but reality is that Cuba will be treated as if it were any other country. They can call the senior U.S. diplomat anything they want and confirmation as an ambassador is irrelevant.
Bob Menendez, why don’t you shut up and go back into your irrelevant hole in the ground. You are nothing more than a socialist Liberal Democrat Party Obama loving heck. You have voted with Obama 100 percent of the time. You are flapping your gums now just to get some quick attention but when push comes to shove, you will once again side wholeheartedly with Obama. So do us all a favor, stop wasting our time and shut up!
Yet oddly, people have trouble having a US Ambassador to China, Syria or to other dictators.