Posted on 12/17/2014 4:46:25 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
Right off the bat, Congress must make it crystal clear to President Obama that he lacks the authority to lift the embargo on Cuba, allow trade to take place between the two nations, let tourists to go to Cuba to bail out the regime or give Cuba have access to capital markets. U.S. law—the Helms-Burton Act of 1996—gives the Congress power to override any action taken by the executive to lift the embargo.
In order to lift the embargo, the Cuban government would have to give the Cuban people a number of rights—of association, speech, political activity, etc.—that President Obama obviously failed to secure in his 45-minute conversation with Cuban dictator Raul Castro Tuesday.
Congress can also make clear to the president that there are statutory criteria that must be met before his administration can take Cuba off the State Department list of terrorism sponsors. The president must inform Congress that there has been a change of leadership and policies of the Cuban government and that Castro has given assurances that it will no longer support terrorist acts. Can President Obama do any of that?
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Ha!, Congress is Complicit, at least the Leadership(Ruling Class) is. Maybe Darrell Issa can put on another Dog and Pony Show. The only hope is to dump Boehner as speaker.
“...The action of the President under subsection (a) shall cease to be
effective upon the enactment of a joint resolution described in
paragraph (2).
(2) Joint resolutions.—For purposes of this subsection, the
term ``joint resolution’’ means only a joint resolution of the 2
Houses of Congress, the matter after the resolving clause of
which is as follows: ``That the Congress disapproves the action
of the President under section 204(a) of the Cuban Liberty and
Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 to suspend the
economic embargo of Cuba, notice of which was submitted to the
Congress on ____.’’, with the blank space being filled with the
appropriate date.”
Simple and plain enough.
WEONG PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM ABOVE!
Obama and Raúl Castro thank pope for breakthrough in US-Cuba relations.
Pope Francis, before visiting The Holy Land boasted to be himself the “Che” of the Palestinian people.
A Marxist leaning Pope blessed the Marxist American president embrace of Castro's genocide communist regime condemning the Cuban enslaved people to eternal damnation. On the deal Castro liberated an American illegally imprisoned in Cuba in exchange for the freedom of three Cuban spies serving prison terms in U.S. and the normalization of relations with a country that occupied for decades a top position in the list of the State Department ‘s terrorist countries.
The Cuban regime tried to obliterate New York and Washington with a nuclear attack during the October Missile Crisis of 1962. “In November 1962, the Castro brothers’ and Che Guevara’s agents had targeted Macy’s, Gimbels, Bloomingdales, and Manhattan’s Grand Central Station with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. The Holocaust was set for detonation the following week, on the day after Thanksgiving.” (Humberto Fontova)
Castro has been a strong ally of Islamic terrorism. Cuba continues to serve as a base for coordination and mutual support among transnational terrorist organizations. At Tehran University he stated to the thunderous applause of students and faculty, "The imperialist king will finally fall,” (AFP, May 10, 2001). Immediately afterward the Iranian Press Service proudly proclaimed that "Iran and Cuba reached the conclusion that together they can tear down the United States.” (IPS, May 10, 2001).
According to World renown and highly respected American investigative journalist and author, Claire Sterling, : “All of the world’s emerging terrorist bands in the 1970’s were indebted to the Cubans and their Russian patrons for that honeycomb of camps around Havana. None could have started without rudimentary training, and those who didn’t train in Cuba were trained by others who did.” (“The Terror Network, The Secret War on International Terrorism.”)
As reported by Sterling, “Castro was training the advance guards of the coming European fright decade – Palestinians, Italians, Germans, French, Spanish Basques – and forming guerrilla nuclei in practically every Western hemisphere state south of the American border. As far back as 1962, Castro’s camps were taking in 1,500 Latin American guerrillas a year. . ‘Any revolutionary movement anywhere in the world can count on Cuba’s unconditional support,’ declared Castro at the 1966 Tricontinental Conference in Havana”. It was then and there that the international terrorism network was consolidated under Castro’s leadership.”
Fidel Castro “jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin during the Great Terror. He murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitler murdered Germans during his first six. He came closer than anyone in history to starting a world-wide nuclear war.” Humberto Fontova. (http://www.carolinajournal.com/opinions/display_story.html?id=11121)
It is suicidal turning a blind eye to Castro, a deadly enemy at 90 miles south of Key West that does not hide his hatred for U.S.
After the restoration of diplomatic relations comes the end of the embargo.
To complete Obama’s betrayal of the American people, with the normalization of relations comes the opening to Cuba of the American and International bank credits that will sustain the Cuban regimen passing to the American taxpayers the same heavy burden that helped to bankrupt the Soviet Union.
Thanks for the laughs
The Marxist likely found this move polls well with Floridian Cubans.
Quotes only half of Jose Marti’— how typical. A half-a@@ed moron marxist, dedicated to destruction of the US, who cherry picks the real hero of freedom’s own quote. So lame.
Excellent analysis of the new status quo.
Does not account for black ops.
The communist Bathhouse Barry has pissed off the RIGHT in the FBI, CIA for the last time.
Hagel has bailed.
Time for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciamiento
I doubt Obama is very concerned at all about congress doing anything in opposition to him. There is no opposition.
The “tea party” types gave congress both houses of congress yet they want to destroy the tea party. Are they that stupid? I don’t think so. They want the democrats to be in power because they agree with the democrats. What they’re afraid of is the American people realizing there is only one party. Just like Cuba.
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