Yeah, good luck with that.
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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Congress will NOT stop it! We have a spineless Republican party.
Don’t worry the Republicans are ready to supply Obama with all the Money and Power he needs
Congress is too preoccupied with their snouts stuck in the pig trough again.
Obama LOVES the Cuban torturers that makes CIA waterboarding look like a kiddie ride at Disney World.
HANG THIS AROUND THE DEMS NECKS.
And you know the Chamber of Commerce would give Satan a blow job if it meant an extra 20 bucks.
They aren’t whipped; they are fellow Travelers.
Congress is too preoccupied with trying to destroy The Tea Party ,D’oh
So the Obama administration traded 3 spies implicated in the murder of US citizens for a humanitarian worker and an “unknown” intelligence source. Because bowing to communists and terrorists is what Obama and his cohorts do best.
This is a major setback for the opposition and dissident movements in Cuba. The Obama administration, by making this “deal”, has confirmed that they are OK with the repression, brutality, incarceration, and murder the castro regime foists upon the opposition. And I will once again say what I have been saying since day one of this farce of a presidential administration, for the record: faced with the fact that he is, by far, the worst President this nation has ever seen, and with no true positive legacy, Obama is relying on the low hanging fruit of the Cuban embargo to placate the left. Look for President Executive Action to undermine codified US Cuba policy.
Just as a stark reminder, here is the audio of the downing of the Brothers to the Rescue pilots, which the 3 Cuban spies being released are complicit in.
http://babalublog.com/wpr/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/brothers-shootdown_19960224.mp3
During Obama’s remarks - which I confess I could barely stomach - he had the audacity of quoting Jose Marti. Yet with one glaring omission:
Obama stated “Liberty if the right of every man to be honest”
He left out the most important part:
“Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, TO THINK AND SPEAK WITHOUT HYPOCRISY.”
Sometimes, what’s not said is what rings loudest.
EXEMPT Congress rubberstamps WHATEVER the undocumented
Tyrant desires.
Death of US military. check.
Death of US vets. check.
Death of US LEO by F&Furious. check.
Death of US children by EV-D68. Check.
Death by crucifixion in Egypt and Syria by Islam. Check.
Death by rape and slavery of women by Islam. Check.
Death of millions by ObamaCARE. Check. check. check.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
That's hilarious!!!
The communist subversive queer in the WH threw a lifeline to his fellow marxists, most likely on orders from his KGB handler Jarrett.
With the run on the banks in Russia happening and Venezuela crashing, the Cubans were about to go all Ceausescu on that faggot Raul Castro and his immortal brother.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Or more than equal.
The CPUSA is on borrowed time.
In this day and age many in the younger generations might find it hard to believe that Americans once had a world wide reputation as savvy traders, tough negotiators and very hard to get the best of in any kind of a deal.
But of course Obama isn’t an American....
He’s just a creep who wandered in off the street and is handing out all the stuff he can find to his friends before the adults arrive to take charge.
Che LIVES!
Obviously, none of the D.C. political limp-wrists had Prof. Turgeson for Contemporary American History.
At best, Boehner/McConnell will put on some theater and essentially do nothing.
After waiving our constitution with Cromnibus, the GOP no longer has any credibility or power to do much of anything.
FUGOP
If it’s an EO Congress can possibly ... if it’s some sort of treaty, then it’s the Senate’s approval ....
Hey RINOS, I dare you to call nobama’s hand on this. Be brave and daring for a change: insist that he follow the law.
Yeah, good luck with that.
Obama’s memorandum:
“By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, I hereby delegate to you the authority to suspend the provisions of title III of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-114; 22 U.S.C. 6021-6091), as authorized by section 306(c)(2) of the Act.”
??????????????
“SEC. 306.
c) Other Authorities.—
(2) Additional suspensions.—The President may suspend the
right to bring an action under this title for additional periods
of not more than 6 months each, each of which shall begin on the
day after the last day of the period during which a suspension
is in effect under this subsection, if the President determines
and reports in writing to the appropriate congressional
committees at least 15 days before the date on which the
additional suspension is to begin that the suspension is
necessary to the national interests of the United States and
will expedite a transition to democracy in Cuba.”
Makes no sense.
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