Cll, I always like your posts - it gives us a different perspective than we have here on the mainland.
Regardless, isn’t this proposal essentially a “forcing” of statehood on PR?? If so I cannot support it.
“Regardless, isn’t this proposal essentially a “forcing” of statehood on PR?? If so I cannot support it”
There’s something to that in that bill. I’ll tell you more. The Puerto Rican political party that’s pushing this in DC, know full well that this is not going to fly. They know that even if they pass it in the House, the Senate will kill it. Why do they do it anyway? I’ll tell you another little dirty secret.
The New Progressive Party, the party currently in power in Puerto Rico, is made up of a coalition of Democrats and Republicans, and it is the party which purportedly supports statehood. To your surprise, the faction that actually controls the party DOES NOT REALLY WANT STATEHOOD. they are content with the status quo. They just pushed this bill to appease the hardcore pro-statehood faction of the party. That’s it!
And there’s more: OBAMA OPPOSES PUERTO RICO STATEHOOD. How do I know this? Because his Puerto Rico go-to-guy is Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), who’s rabidly anti-statehood and pro-independence. Regarding Puerto Rico, whatever Alien Head Gutierrez says, goes with Obama.
But wait, you also get with this package: GLENN BECK AND HERITAGE.ORG AND MOST CONSERVATIVES HAVE FALLEN INTO ANOTHER DEMOCRAT TRAP. That’s right. They are actually peddling the spin of the Puerto Rico political party that’s more closely aligned with the national Democrats. Your read right: Glenn Beck is serving as a tool of the Popular Democratic Party and that of leftist democrats like Obama, Gutierrez, and Nydia Velazquez (D-NY).