Posted on 12/17/2014 1:35:09 PM PST by SeekAndFind
First spotted by USA Today reporter Gregory Korte, the key bit is at the very end of the clip below. No wonder they had a meeting of the minds: Castro and The One are both fans of rule by decree. When I first saw Korte’s tweet, I thought Castro was bringing up executive action on his own initiative, maybe as a way to tweak the Republicans in Congress whom he well knows will try to block normalization with the U.S. “Make ‘em cry again, Barack,” he seemed to be saying, “just like you did last month on illegal immigration.”
But I don’t think that’s what happened. What actually happened is worse: I think Obama has quietly promised this turd, as an inducement to their deal, that he’ll use executive action to lift the embargo as much as he can if, as expected, Republicans resist.
A full end to the US trade embargo of Cuba would require legislation in Congress, something for which there has been virtually no appetite until now, but the White House hopes that by using a series of executive actions to minimise its enforcement, it can provide a breakthrough that will encourage political reform in Cuba and soften political opposition in the US.
“We recognise that some members of Congress will strongly disagree with what the president is announcing today, but this will be an ongoing dialogue … We believe a policy of engagement will be more effective.”
“It is clear that decades of US isolation of Cuba have failed to accomplish our enduring objective of promoting the emergence of a democratic, prosperous, and stable Cuba,” added the press secretary, Josh Earnest, in a written statement.
Americans just handed Republicans a majority in the Senate and the most House seats they’ve had in 60 years, and Obama’s response is to do a deal with the Castro boys which he knows the GOP will hate and then immediately set to work undermining their constitutional power to stop it. Which makes sense in Obama logic: The more likely Congress is to oppose him, why, the more imperative it is that he act unilaterally and ignore them. That’s precisely the reasoning that got slapped down in yesterday’s court ruling finding his executive amnesty unconstitutional, but it serves his ends so it’s full speed ahead. Don’t believe the nonsense either about using executive orders to “minimize” enforcement, which makes it sound like O will merely be nibbling at the edges of the embargo by clearing the way for Cuban cigars or whatever. He used to say things like that about amnesty too — there might be minor measures to relax deportations that I can take with executive orders, he’d tell amnesty shills, but any large-scale legalization would be up to Congress, not me. A year or two later, he’s on TV handing down decrees legalizing five million illegals. I figure we’ll see the same basic progression with Cuba:
January 2015: Obama says he lacks authority to lift the Cuba embargo
July 2015: Obama says Cuba must act to lift the Cuba embargo and that failure to act might force him to act
November 2015: Obama says he’s lifting the embargo
The embargo is similar to amnesty in an important way: Just as polling suggests most Americans are open to some form of legalization for illegals, it also suggests that Americans are tired of sanctions on Cuba. It would be dangerous for Obama to usurp Congress’s authority on a matter where the public is strongly against him, but by picking issues where he has reason to think they’ll tolerate the outcome he favors, he blunts public opposition to his power grabs. Executive action on the embargo is likely to produce the same result as executive action on amnesty — Republicans may howl, but as Americans accept the new policy as the status quo, a GOP successor to O will think twice before undoing it. Which is not to say that congressional Republicans should merely go along here. On the contrary, I think Joel Pollak‘s right that if Obama makes an illegal move to lift the embargo unilaterally, McConnell should bottle up his presidential nominees across the board. We must, must return to normal constitutional order before this precedent of presidential authoritarianism gets worse than it already is.
In case you’re wondering, by the way, the left naturally loves this deal with Cuba — and when I say “loves,” I mean loves.
This is #peak something. pic.twitter.com/KRuucV6y24
— Matthew Walther (@matthewwalther) December 17, 2014
The only gray lining in the silver cloud is the fact that ugly materialistic Americans will soon be despoiling the paradise that the Castros have built. Reason enough for lefties to oppose Obama in lifting the embargo, right?
Communism and Obama are one IMO.
Says the dirty pot to the filthy kettle.
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.”
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.
When The FBI Tracked Terror-Suspects—Literally!
Humberto Fontova | May 10, 2013
http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2013/05/10/when-the-fbi-tracked-terrorsuspectsliterally-n1592705
Yup, Dorkbama is so inept that he has to take orders from Castro.
And he wonders why his lie about folks thinking him to be a valet might be believable.
(Of course it was a lie, valets have much more class, and they don’t need a teleprompter to ask about your car.)
The Pope seems a Marxist, I am not surprised.
Obama and his commie pals looking to destroy this country and the laws we used to hold
And why not? What difference does it make now anyway? Cuba makes cigars that some Americans might enjoy.
The embargo didn’t work to create a democratic prosperous, and stable Cuba. But 0bama has done the next best thing to promote reconciliation with Cuba: create an impoverished communist, and unstable America, something Castro could only dream of.
Isn’t it funny how communist dictators think alike.
Oh, geez. Yet another communist advisor for the White House. Obama’s new foreign policy czar.
Ah, the irony!
Pope Francis comparing himself to Che? He just lost absolutely all credibility.
Don’t give the SOB any more bad ideas.
Once again, the price was too high. At least, the ransomed was not a traitor.
He never had any credibility in the first place.
The order he belongs to (Jesuits) has been infiltrated by
and controlled by socialist/Marxists since the 1980s.
Read "The Society of Jesus And The Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church" by Malachi Martin for more information.
Must be an Argie thing.
Somehow I feel like Obotox is doing this because Puerto Rico kicked him in the teeth.
maybe he’ll alow Kuba to invade them.
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