Posted on 10/22/2015 2:26:14 PM PDT by Isara
Senate Democrats on Thursday for a second time blocked a proposal from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to rename the street in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington for a Chinese dissident.
Cruz, who is running for president, tried to get unanimous consent to pass a resolution that would name the street in front of the embassy "Liu Xiaobo Plaza" after Liu Xiaobo, a human rights activist currently imprisoned in China. It would also change the embassy's address to "1 Liu Xiaobo Plaza."
"Standing together with a wrongfully imprisoned Nobel Peace laureate, we should say to the wrongfully imprisoned dissidents around the world, America hears you and we stand with you," he said from the Senate floor.
But the Texas Republican was blocked by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who also objected to a similar request from Cruz late last month.
Before the objection, Cruz, in a veiled jab at the California Democrat, read from a statement by Feinstein and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) in which they call for the Chinese government to release the dissident.
But Feinstein fired back that "believe it or not, I have actually played a role in helping dissidents to be released by the government of China and had some success."
"We did that by talking to the government," she added. "I think to do this in this way will set back the cause."
Good....This is America.
Is that elderly lady still under House Arrest? How sad, and petty of China. This has been going on for years.
Feinstein supporting the commies...what else is new?
Can’t we all just get along?
Charlie Chan Plaza.
Ho Lee Fuk there Sum Ting Wong with this.
ROFL ROFL
The liberal establishment hated Churchill and tried to drive him out of Parliament.
But, time and history proved him correct and he was the one man who saved Britain from annihilation.
I believe history will record that Ted Cruz will be the man who saves America.
Oh, Ted, you silly savage. Just try Mao and you’d be in like Flynn.
Who DiFi?
Hey, I can dream can't I?
I hate it when politicians rename streets for political purposes.
Feinstein is required by her CA constituency to support communism.
I love Ted Cruz but this naming crap has got to stop.
The tradition has “stunt” written all over it. A memorial to the dissident lady might make more sense.
Can you point to something parallel to this?
Churchill wasn’t a completely good guy either, even on political record. There was a time when he was uncomfortably in favor of eugenics. Maybe the Nazis finally proved the lesson that this was el wrongo and he got straight and whoopee for him. God furnished what we needed, not what we might have privately reveled in.
By the way, during President Reagan, the Congress renamed the street in front of the USSR embassy to the name of Soviet dissident, Andrei Sakharov.
Check this article:
Ronald Reagan understood that standing for human rights actually strengthens our diplomatic hand, Sen. Cruz told me. It highlights the very principles that make our nation great. He stressed that it is not a question of whether or not to talk to our adversaries, but we dont have to grant them moral parity. We dont have to check our values at the negotiating-room door.
I love Ted Cruz too, but he’s weird as hell.
It’s just typical politician pander stuff. Very much his MO considering how much he’s in bed with the RINOs like Tea Party Patriot$ and Club for Hair Growth.
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No different than that BS that came out saying Ted Cruz was a B- Christian and Huck was an A.
It’s all arbitrary and designed to promote whoever the rater is.
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