Senators Vow to Halt Obama’s Castro Odyssey

Barack ObamaLawmakers opposed to President Obama’s sudden move to cozy up to Communist Cuba are vowing a full-court press to prevent official diplomatic recognition of the tropical prison republic from going forward.

But it is far from clear if lawmakers will be able to do much about Obama’s Cuban escapades. Presidents typically enjoy great latitude in foreign policy, especially concerning recognition of foreign governments. Lawmakers are probably on stronger ground in resisting repeal of the trade embargo that has been in place since the 1960s. On the other hand, Obama has a pen and a phone, as he likes to say, a reference to his brazen contempt for the rule of law and the strictures of the Constitution.

Obama’s dramatic actions are setting off a feeding frenzy as American companies salivate at the prospect of doing business in Cuba. Little do they realize that Cuba, a dilapidated Stalinist state that, thanks to the absence of good paying jobs, serves largely as a seedy sex tourism destination for Europeans and hardly has an economy at all. Some business restrictions were already eased by the U.S. around 2000. Some companies are allowed to sell medical equipment to the Cuban government. There is not much money to be made, at least not initially.

Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), who are both of Cuban ancestry, have made strong statements about their intentions.

Rubio said it mattered not a whit to him if “99 percent of people in polls” disagreed with his position. “Appeasing the Castro brothers will only cause other tyrants from Caracas to Tehran to Pyongyang to see that they can take advantage of President Obama’s naivete during his final two years in office.”

Rubio said he reserved the right “to do everything within the rules of the Senate to prevent that sort of individual from ever even coming up for a vote,” a reference to confirmation proceedings for a prospective U.S. ambassador to Cuba.

Menendez said he was “deeply disappointed” and that it was “a fallacy to believe that Cuba will reform because an American president opens his hands and the Castro brothers will suddenly unclench their fists.”

The chill in relations between the two countries has its roots in the Cold War.

Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, whose forces overthrew the comparatively mild authoritarian regime of Fulgencio Batista, tried to start a nuclear war with the United States and in 1963 openly called for the assassination of President John Kennedy and his brother Robert, the U.S. attorney general. War was only narrowly averted after the Soviet Union turned around ships that were carrying nuclear weapons to Cuba. A short time later one of Castro’s followers, a man named Lee Harvey Oswald, murdered President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. Cuba is a longtime state sponsor of terrorism and has meddled militarily and otherwise in the affairs of its neighbors and in faraway countries such as Angola. President Reagan ordered an invasion of Grenada after its Marxist dictatorship grew too close to Cuba and he struggled heroically to aid the anticommunist contras in their war against the Cuban-backed Communist regime in Nicaragua.

Many conservatives in Congress and elsewhere are saying Obama is a weak leader.

For example, former Ambassador to the UN John Bolton said on the Fox News Channel on Wednesday that Obama’s moves on Cuba constitute “appeasement” and are a “very, very bad signal of weakness and lack of resolve by the president of the United States.”

Bolton and others are correct in terms of how the U.S. is perceived abroad under Obama but this does not reflect weak leadership on Obama’s part. This president knows what he is doing and when given the opportunity to do the right thing reliably chooses to do the wrong thing. Obama is taking the country’s foreign policy in exactly the right direction in terms of his sinister ideology. Obama does not mean well. He does not, unlike traditional U.S. presidents, think of himself as the leader of the free world. He wants to fundamentally transform America inside and out and is quite content to enfeeble the nation by crippling its military, betraying its allies, and embracing its enemies.

All of this excitement follows the sudden release Wednesday of Alan Gross, a U.S. development worker held in a Cuban prison. (An intelligence operative loyal to the U.S. was also released as part of the deal. Details about that individual are scarce.) Gross is a garden-variety leftist who is being used by President Obama to justify establishing diplomatic and trade relations with Cuba.

Obama is repaying a debt to his Marxist friends and allies. Just as President Bill Clinton rewarded his neo-communist supporters by pardoning Marxist Puerto Rican terrorists, Obama is rewarding his Castro-admiring base by freeing Communist spies working for a hostile foreign power.

Gross was reportedly a subcontractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is frequently a home for meddling left-wing activists. He reportedly worked on a program aimed at improving Internet access for Cuban Jews. Why the Obama administration would knowingly send an American into Cuba to perform services they had to have known were considered illegal by Cuban authorities is not clear. The free flow of information is a threat to any totalitarian regime, so a Cuban court convicted Gross of crimes against the state in 2011, sentencing him to a 15-year prison term.

Under a deal that Pope Francis, among others, helped to facilitate, Gross was exchanged for the remaining three members of the so-called Cuban Five — Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, and Ramón Labañino — who had been held in U.S. prisons.  All five Cuban nationals were convicted of spying in 2001. They gathered information on Cuban exiles in the U.S. in order to lay the ground for violent action against them in the future. Hernández was also convicted of conspiring to commit murder.

As Gross prepared for his press conference Wednesday, there was a portrait of  Communist mass murderer Che Guevara clearly visible in the Washington, D.C. office of Gross’s lawyer, high-profile attorney Scott D. Gilbert of Gilbert LLP. The bloodthirsty Guevara was minister of industry and president of the Cuban National Bank. He also administered kangaroo courts that condemned enemies of Fidel Castro’s regime to death. In other words, as Gross prepared his statement about being freed from a Cuban jail, an iconic photograph honoring Cuba’s most infamous jailer stared down at him.

Guevara, incidentally, wanted to annihilate the United States.

“If the nuclear missiles [from the missile crisis] had remained [in Cuba] we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City,” he said. “The victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims.”

In the press conference Gross maligned the U.S., pulling a cowardly pox-on-both-your-houses stunt. Gross drew a moral equivalency between the U.S. and the ruthless authoritarian regime he just escaped:

I also feel compelled to share with you my utmost respect for and fondness of the people of Cuba. In no way are they responsible for the ordeal to which my family and I have been subjected. To me cubanos, or at least most of them, are incredibly kind, generous and talented. It pains me to see them treated so unjustly as a consequence of two governments’ mutually belligerent policies.  Five and a half decades of history show us such belligerence inhibits better judgment. Two wrongs never make a right. I truly hope that we can now get beyond these mutually belligerent policies and I was very happy to hear what the president had to say today. It was particularly cool to be sitting next to the secretary of state as he was hearing about his job description for the next couple of months. In all seriousness, this is a game-changer, which I fully support. [Emphasis added.]

Who condemns his own countrymen as imperialist warmongers after they cut a deal to get him repatriated from the clutches of a dictatorship? And why would he use his opportunity in the spotlight to praise President Obama’s decision to normalize relations with the regime that he believes unjustly imprisoned him?

The whole thing doesn’t smell right. Clearly it was in the works for a long time.

Interestingly enough, Gross thanked Jill Zuckman of left-wing PR firm SKDKnickerbocker for helping to free him. SKDKnickerbocker also employs former resident Maoist in the Obama White House, Anita Dunn, and Democrat operative Hilary Rosen. Gross also thanked Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Communist-friendly lawmakers Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) for freeing him.

Those who follow President Obama’s policy initiatives already know that he delights in trading Americans who hate America for foreign terrorists and murderers who also hate America. Not so long ago there was the swap of U.S Army deserter and Taliban collaborator Bowe Bergdahl for five members of the Taliban’s high command.  Not exactly a good deal for America.

What’s next for Obama, who is hellbent to knock America down a few pegs?

Diplomatic recognition for Iran? At first glance such a development might seem unlikely, but Obama does harbor deep affection for hardline Islamic states. He aided Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and during anti-government unrest that began in Iran in 2009, Obama effectively propped up the Islamist regime there by doing nothing to oppose it.

Anything could happen with Obama in his final two years in the White House.

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  • James Zander

    Walking, breathing traitor…

    • truebearing

      This whole thing looks like another set-up by the Left. Gross should be sent to North Korea for a nice, long stint.

  • Bamaguje

    “Menendez said he was “deeply disappointed” and that it was “a fallacy to
    believe that Cuba will reform because an American president opens his
    hands and the Castro brothers will suddenly unclench their fists” – Vadum

    Well, it worked with Iran’s “death to America” Mullahs who have since turned a new leaf since Obama unclenched America’s fists and reached out to them.
    So Castro’s Cuba will now become a prosperous Jeffersonian democracy with full civil liberties… thanks to Obama’s brilliant visionary foreign policy.

  • dwayne roberson

    A Jolly Commie Christmas…Comfy Cozy are We.

    • Kingscairn

      comfortably numb !

      • zoomie

        we dont need no educayshun

    • stringman

      Ah, a fellow traveller. Walk with me, comrade. (Sarcasm)

  • Kingscairn

    The time to have stopped obama has come and gone….it’s a little late now…and with two more years of ‘unfettered’ sabotage, subterfuge and “Fundamental Transformation”, the damage will be FUBAR (kinda is already)…. besides, after seven long tears of a Constitutional wrecking that was passively witnessed by all, and stopped by no one I’d say there’s no one with the balls to stop him – and he knows it !

  • 11bravo

    Obama is the most awesome-est president ever! Depending on your point of view, and your vision of what our country needs to transform into.
    Barry will knock T Kennedy out of the “Lion of the Left” mantle.
    He seems to be making all the big statements these days. What are the chances of a republican run congress shutting down the entire government until Barry capitulates, and reverses ALL Ex-Acts?
    What? Stop laughing – it was just a hypothetical.

  • Joe Esposito

    Really, The legislators are going to impose a full court press.
    Do you mean in a fantasy basketball game?
    The Marxist in charge has defied Congress and the people of this country on so many issues and nothing has been done. How can we believe that these feckless politicians running this country have the guts to challenge this Marxist president.
    Lets see how many ways he is turning this country into a third world cesspool.
    Iran, give them nukes. Cuba, encourage a dictatorship. Illegals aliens, come one come all and drain our resources. Space program, way bother.
    Israel, three cheers for Jew haters. IRS, destroy conservatives.
    Law and order, bring back anarchy. Race relations, Remember Selma.
    Too many issues to mention them all.
    MERRY CHRISTMAS too all, except Obama and the Marxist Democratic party.

    • Michael Garfinkel

      The interesting thing about all this is that the Left lost the argument decades ago.

      The Democrats, who bear no resemblance to the party that used to bear that name, are intellectually bankrupt, save for an increasingly rancorous neo-Marxism.

      They no longer even pretend to have ideas – instead, they’ve set about stirring up race, class, and gender resentment.

      Consider Governor Udall’s losing campaign,in Colorado, which even the liberal press described as best suited for a gynecological setting.
      A joke, yes, but chastening all the same.

      Or Senator Feinstein’s gratuitous and vicious attack on the CIA, which is, after all, critically important to the security of this country.

      In governing, Obama has been unaccountable and corrupt, and he has shown little discomfort at being judged in these terms. Certainly his “base” doesn’t mind, and he has returned the favor, holding the entire electorate in contempt.

      Consider the arrogance of the remark that “he has also heard the voices of the people who didn’t vote”, after the recent mid-term losses of his party.

      Even the theatrics of this administration are appalling; the 2009 army report identified Bergdahl as a deserter, yet to secure his release, Obama set free five Taliban commanders and held a Rose Garden press conference with the soldier’s parents – with hugs all around and blessings delivered in Arabic by the Senior Bergdahl.

      And serial liar Susan Rice then described Bergdahl’s service as “honorable” and “distinguished.”

      Obama’s time is running out, and it’s quite likely the odiousness of the man will cause severe and lasting damage to his party – but Matthew Vaddum is right to point out that there is incalculable damage still to be done.

      • ricpic

        They do have an idea. They hate decency and are doing their utmost to destroy it. That’s right, hating decency is an idea. As to why? Worship of self. Worship of self takes anyone – you, me, the man behind the tree – to a place where all those others going about their lawful business must be destroyed for not worshipping him. In other words for not submitting. Ring a bell?

  • Rosasolis

    It seems as if Obama is trying to convince his supporters that he is still their
    super leader, during the last months of his dictatorship. This man will not go out
    gracefully, as most leaders do after their government has suffered such an enormous defeat. But this guy sees himself as Super Hero, who demands
    the spotlight on himself. He now like a burnt-out once popular actor or former sports- hero who wants to achieve just a few more positive reactions from his
    fans before he is forced to step down. Alas, you folks will probably have to
    expect a few more “surprises”, before its all over. I can only hope that we
    in Europe will no longer have to experience more interference from this
    destructive, unfriendly, and above-all unsympathetic man. And that the
    next 12 months of his rule will gradually and peacefully come to an end, so that
    we all can at last breathe a sigh of relief!

    • cree

      Hey friend. Thanks for the moral support; and you’ve got the One pegged right. We’re in rough times but your Netherlands offers the direction we should also heed with your govt.’s wising up to the enemy. We’ve made it this far without giving up; we can’t the rest of the way either. Later.

      • Rosasolis

        Dear Cree, we are also in rough times. I watched the
        CNN International sending yesterday evening. Please read my
        reactions which I sent earlier today, Would Hollywood dare to make a comical film over the Great Dictator from America?
        I am happy to hear that you and others have not forgotten
        us in Europe. My Christmas message is that I love you,
        and that you will have a nice time together with your family
        and friends during these very special days.

        • zoomie

          no but they made one about assasinating bush

        • cree

          Read your previous post. All important observations. Our One is dangerous on foreign policy views and decisions; as nearly as dangerous as he’s been to our republic’s rule of law and to America’s people.

          If Hollywood would do a project/film on the One, it would only contain the comical rewriting of history.

          No doubt and grateful, many in Europe and further west are mutually united against common enemies.

          Best wishes back to you and yours. Still much of humanity considers the Holiday season as special days. Merry Christmas and with hope pursuing a Happier New Year.

    • pupsncats

      The truly evil never go out gracefully. They just attach themselves to a new form of evil and spread their tenacles into other areas.

  • http://www.hubpages.com/profiles/maven101 LarryConners

    The two conservative stalwarts in congress that will make the next two years difficult for the empty suit living in our White House are Gowdy and Lee…The anointed GOP nominees for 2016, even if elected, are a spineless bunch and will do nothing to restore America …Obama is impeachment-proof with the retarded Biden sitting in the VP seat…

  • Pepe Turcon

    According to Sanchez and Farinas, Raul and Fidel Castro remain the implacable enemies of the United States. They are constantly thinking of ways to harm America—they are evil, and we cannot make a deal with an evil regime. The goal of the Castros, they explained, was to copy “Putinismo,” or the tricks and deceptions the Russian strongman had used to fool the west with the appearance of change while in reality, his authoritarian government consolidated power. Farinas cautioned that the Castros would try to get the United States to finance their “Putinist project” through the relaxation of the embargo, and that we should reject any deal that did not include real political reform.

  • Mickey “the wrench”

    “Naiveté”; “show of weakness”? Come on people, it’s a show of Fellow Travelers resident in the administration. Naïve … similar to one kid getting several kids chipping in to buy him ticket to the movies. He then goes down and opens the back door to let his buddies in.

  • tagalog

    Part of the reason is that it’s truly difficult to believe that Obama ISN’T naïve, that he’s not just simply a bull in a china shop who hasn’t the slightest clue about what government in the United States is all about.

    Personally I never liked him, but I can’t believe that his supporters would have missed a character quality like anti-Americanism in him. They couldn’t have been that dumb, could they?

    • Janet Ann

      Race does count but … it was not just the politically naive.

      The betrayal of staunch Conservatives Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Armstrong Williams still has me hurting. When all was said and done … race did take priority over ideology. The 2008 election of Barack Obama was hailed by all three.

    • zoomie

      yes, yes they are

    • pupsncats

      What? His supporters are ANTI-AMERICANISM as well. Why would any American not question Obama’s goal of “fundamentally transforming America” if they did not believe it is fundamentally flawed? Why would any American not research what the man’s background was to determine exactly what he meant when no other presidential candidate in history has ever made such a statement?

      • MukeNecca

        Why would any American not question Obama’s goal of “fundamentally transforming America” if they did not believe it is fundamentally flawed?”

        Very well said! Hear, hear!

      • cattastrophe

        Why would anyone not question his damn name to. Barack Huessein Obama.

        • stringman

          Willful blind ignorance is built in to the human genome. Humans are psychologically predisposed to accepting lies (that they wish to believe). The parochial term is ‘wishful thinking’.

    • JayWye

      it’s not at all “difficult to believe that Comrade Obama is not naive.”
      All one has to do is open their eyes,and connect the dots.
      there’s PLENTY of evidence out there.
      the problem is that some folks simply refuse to face reality.
      to them,it’s “unthinkable”. that sort of “reasoning” is denial,a refusal to consider -all- the possibilities.

      “once is accidental,twice is coincidence,three times is enemy action.”

      We’re WAY past 3 times.

      • cattastrophe

        Not naive but certainly stupid. I don’t mean stupid in not intentionally doing the un-American things he does but anyone not completely dependent on the press giving them a pass wouldn’t have scandal after scandal surrounding almost everything they do. He’s an accident looking to happen with every move he makes. A sycophant press and lazy public are the only things stopping him from being run out of town on a rail.

        • stringman

          Obama relishes being a member of the dark side. He thinks he is cool. It’s ‘cool’ these days to hate America. Hey, for a few bucks you can join the Ferguson riots, take a selfie with your new riot buddies and share it on social media with everyone. You’ll be the envy of all the kids back home.

    • stringman

      Oh yes they could. We’re talking willful blind ignorance on a nationwide mass scale. White people elected a Leftist Marxist Radical black man (twice) just to prove themselves not to be racist.

  • Janet Ann

    Something akin to the way they stopped the spending bill … the spending bill that gave the green light to the funding of illegal immigration and Obamacare? RINOS talk the Conservative talk but when it counts they fail the walk the walk. Obama’s Marxist/Islamic agenda is furthered every time. In reality … an opposition to Obama’s transformation of America is just an illusion.

    The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

  • Janet Ann

    Bingo!

    “WE ARE FIVE DAYS AWAY FROM FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.” – Barack Obama, October 30, 2008

  • truebearing

    The only thing that will halt Obama is a massive uprising by the people. Huge demonstrations in DC, protests all over the country, and an abandonment of the mainstream media by a large percentage of the nation will encourage politicians who want to keep their jobs to start playing hardball. Obama is acting unconstitutionally with total impunity. If we want governors to refuse illegals benefits, or Congress to cut funding, we need to show them we will support them. What is sorely lacking is action on the part of American citizens.

    • zoomie

      the wisest thing i’ve ever seen written on the net

    • pupsncats

      When the overwhelming majority of politicians on both sides of the aisle support unconstitutional acts, refuse to listen to any voter that disagrees with them, and the people keep electing and re-electing those who are working to destroy the country, there will be no mass uprising. Most in America are complacent and too darned tired and busy trying to survive and take care of their families to be politically well-informed. That is the reality the left has worked to create for a century. An apathetic, uneducated, easily indoctrinated/brainwashed people who only realize they have become slaves when it is too late.

      • cattastrophe

        All true except…there are still just enough who haven’t succumbed to do what they should have done all along. I’m not a pessimist by nature most of the time but I do think this will be our last chance to set things right.

    • nightspore

      It worked for the Egyptians. But perhaps they were closer to the edge – and not Eloized like people in the West, as some posters noted on another comment thread.

    • JayWye

      sounds like another Bonus Army march.(massacre)
      it didn’t end well.

  • Look_A_Squirrel

    Why are the Senators even planning on coming back from Christmas break? The GOP has already shown that they will rubber stamp everything that Obama wants no matter how vocally the voters object.

    Obama has demonstrated we don’t need 3 branches of government – one tyrant can do it all alone.

  • JVR

    Sorry, I believe President Obama won this dispute.

    • Look_A_Squirrel

      How’d he “win”? There was no debate. He “won” like Idi Amin or Kim Jung Un “wins”.

      • JVR

        But he won. All of it, all the time.

        America is decadent, in full decline, and most of her conservative citizens still fail to understand this. This is going to be a rocky, interesting and longish ride down. But down it will be.

  • Gee

    Should be easy enough to stop Odumba. Leave the embargo in place, refuse to fund an embassy and refuse to confirm any ambassador.

  • onecornpone

    Anything could happen with Obama in his last two years in the White House

    Amen! I believe Obama’s snarky community organizer tendencies will dominate. He thrives and gains power from taunting the Right, thus we can expect to wake up in a whole new world every Monday morning for the next two years.

    Boehner and McConnell are such low-skilled opponents he merely runs rings around them.

  • Pericles

    “Anything could happen with Obama in his final two years in the White House.”

    Think of the unthinkable and you will read Obama’s mind. He’s a lunatic on the loose and there is no one willing or able to stop him.

    He has helped me to understand why democratic republics contain within themselves the seeds of their own demise. Obama has exposed why dictatorships can arise even in countries that have been democratic for decades or centuries. They rely too much on the voters being well-informed, the media being honest, the politicians being subordinated to the will of the people, that everyone’s foremost concern is not with themselves but with the welfare of the entire nation.

    • zoomie

      yup, a story written a couple of thousand years ago

    • pupsncats

      Our Constitution was written for a moral and religious people. Since both are pretty much dead in the majority, it’s no wonder we are collapsing into a hellhole.

    • c0mm0ncenz

      Excellent and well-stated, Pericles. This has come down to me too, and now I just about cringe every time I hear the word “democracy”. It’s become a sort of false god to many, but as is stated above, the voters have to be moral and well-informed, and I would add, intelligent and discerning. There is no discernment in the US leftist community today. I still hear my own family state how wonderful Obama is. How can anyone say this? Sure the economy seems to be recovering, but at what price? Who will pay back the trillions in debt? How soon will the house of cards fall? Yet there’s little hope with the conservatives either, the way they caved and ended up passing all the obama legislation. It’s scary to consider the future for America.

      • Pericles

        Anyone who states how “wonderful Obama is” is living in an alternate universe. They are not reachable by reason or common sense or facts. They are more deluded than Obama himself.

  • namberak

    Save your breath Senator: The One has taken measure of his opposition and is acting accordingly– now that his enablers no longer have the levers in Congress, he sees that it doesn’t matter. Their replacements from the other party have already signaled they have no principals they won’t sell out for the right price, your refusenik stand against the ascendancy of the glorious Republic of Cuba notwithstanding. There is simply nothing to stop this monster and his reign.

  • His Excellency

    Good article. However, there are a few things to clarify. First of all, there is not really an embargo on Cuba at all. There are sanctions that are too full of holes to actually be an embargo by definition. Second, Alan Gross wasn’t necessarily bashing his own country. He was critiquing the belligerent state that both the US and Cuba had been for five decades. Now, I don’t necessarily agree with him on that statement, since we all know that Castrogonia (Cuban American author, scholar, blogger and activist Carlos Eire’s term for Communist Cuba) is the aggressor in every issue regarding the relationship between Havana and Washington. The fact is that Communist Cuba is an imperialist, totalitarian regime.

  • Rosasolis

    Wow, what a show that was yesterday evening on CNN International TV!
    It began with an interview with Wolf and democrate representatives praising
    Obama, along with the background scene showing preparations on the platform where the Super Hero would soon be holding his newest speech. ( During this
    glorious introduction, I couldn’t help wondering if he would appear wearing
    a crown and an ermine cape!) At last the Great One arrived, and delivered his
    latest sensational speech. According to Obama, America has never before been in beter shape than today! He declared that he has achieved his goal to turn America into the most successful country in the whole world,
    so that you folks are now living in Obama’s Shangri-La!
    It’s a long time ago, since I had visited America, so that I am not
    in the position to say that this is nonscence, but I do feel that much of this speech was highly exaggerated
    to insure that his support from many poor, uneducated,people and immigrants
    will continue. One comment did make me very angry:
    Obama declared that the sanctions against Russia and Crimea will continue.
    This man has no idea and no respect for European politics. He has no idea of
    how the farmers in the EU have been suffering due to HIS demand for sanctions
    against Russia. Along with several other European industries, culture, and small businesses. Doesn’t he have any idea of how the ordinary people of Russia
    and Crimea are suffering because of the sanctions he has forced upon Europe!
    Up until recently Obama has shown no interest in European affairs. And now
    this American dictator has been been THREATENING the EU, instead of showing any signs of friendship! Although the Russians miss the friendship,
    and co-operation they have had for the last 30 years with the EU, they are
    a strong folk who, ….just as us in Nederland are hoping for the restoration
    of the good relations we once had up until recently. We are not afraid of
    Putin or Russian aggression. And the EU is not yet ready to accept Ukraine.

    • pupsncats

      Obama has no respect for Americans (those who support liberty, small and accountable government, capitalism, freedom of speech, our Constitution, the rule of law, innocent until proven guilty, individual responsibility rather than handouts from a corrupt, bloated government ) or American politics so why would he respect Europeans or European politics?
      Obama’s interests are purely interests in (1) himself, (2) expanding totalitarianism whether it is Islam, Communist or Socialist in nature, (3) taking out the economic and world power status of the U.S., (4) enriching his fellow dictators, (5) transforming the U.S. into a humanity-destroying, Progressive controlled dictatorship.

    • pupsncats

      You also have to understand that CNN is a leftwing propaganda machine. And that Obama has no knowledge, experience, or expertise on Europe, America or the rest of the world. His presidency is one in which his worldview that democracies and the Constitutional Republic which is the U.S. are tyrannical and that the world should be ruled by

  • zoomie

    What’s next for Obama, who is hellbent to knock America down a few pegs?
    WRONG, it should read, ” down as far as he can get away with “.

  • zoomie

    well the epa better have some good anti lead regulations ready to go

  • VHG1

    The best remedy is to remove Obama from office! Then let Biden know he’s powerless! Make Boehner VP! That will end the GOP establishment rule as well!

  • USARetired

    They certainly need to put some serious emphasis on this issue as we do not need this ‘Bum’ living that close to America once he is declared ‘Persona non Grata’ in this Country!

  • USARetired

    They best be serious about stopping this ‘Bum’, as he is intentionally causing one catastrophic situation after another for two reasons, !/ he is destroying America systematically 2/ he is causing a diversion from his ‘illegal’ status in this Country.
    His illegal status is as apparent as a ‘sore azz in Church’ because he is still using a STOLON SSN!!!

  • physicsnut

    oh come on – just as the fun is beginning
    Did you guys see The Nation this morning ?

    Tom Hayden says that Cuba Won.
    – so why doesn’t he move – having screwed up New Jersey.

    as if that isn’t funny enough we have …
    Richard Falk says that the Palestinians WON ! Their defeat is just an illusion
    so why doesn’t he move there ?

    Not to be outdone – there is an article on how Colbert reveals the PSYCHOLOGY OF CONSERVATIVES !
    now i should take some asprin and lie down , having reached the limit .

  • JayWye

    if that were to happen,I hope some guy or gal with a scoped rifle stops him permanently.

  • JayWye

    “it’s time to feed the hogs.”

  • Gee

    Congress can refuse to fund any embassy, or change the embargo laws or approve of an ambassador

  • Maynard

    Since King Obumer can do anything he wants to why do we need the congress, the senate and the supreme court? We pay these drones millions monthy, we provide them medical care, retirement etc, for what? They are completely powerless and clueless. Get rid of them, send them home and let them get a job they can handle, may I suggest McDonalds?
    Bussing tables and mopping floors is the limit of their capabilities it seems.

  • stringman

    ‘Socialist idealist’ is putting it mildly. How about Leftist Marxist Radical?

  • Daniel

    More grandstanding and theater from REPS.
    Will they stop Obama?
    Why would this be any different than the last six years?

  • Steve Dietrich

    If travel restrictions are eased, then expect millions to come here and demand amnesty. Another open border.

  • pupsncats

    The Telegraph (UK) ran a story a couple of days ago about what a great vacation destination Cuba is and I can see some of Obama’s billionaire supporters rushing over to open luxury resorts so they and other rich, white-guilt Progressives who love every dictator, despot and mass murderer can enjoy themselves while helping enrich the Castro’s and their supporters. So its a win win for them.

  • Daniel Rubio

    As an adolescent, I used to wonder how come empires as great as Rome, Athens or Persia crumbled down and self-destructed. Obama the reverse-racist and the Washington thugs class of 2016 are a crystal-clear show-and-tell live explanation of how these calamities came to be. While the ruled-ones played with their iPhones and kept track of the Kardashian’s frolicking, their rulers burned Rome.

  • John Pallyswine

    A non American’s point of view; Obama and Bush#2 and their financiers have embarrased your country to where we are afraid of U. Who is the next loon you are going to elect? Hitlary or Prescott Bush#3? Is there a difference?

    I should not dare post anything. Canada has the backbone of a jelly fish regarding most things, even on the best of days.

    Canadian men use Cuban women just as the European men do. If not for Cuba, many men in Canada would die virgins (or go to party in another country in Latrino America).

    The first thing the UN should do is regime change for Cuba and North Korea, otherwise the UN is a worthless cigar box; a bunch of over paid unemployable bureaucrats thanks to Eleanor Roosevelt and the Rockefellers et al.

    Typical Cubano earns $20 a month. I guarantee you that will not change. Perhaps i will be proven incorrect. Maybe by the end of 2015 the wage will increase to $100/month!

    • Well Done

      Canada has far better government than America lately.
      By that, I mean our national leader is actually a citizen who cares about his country. He’s not a stealth pseudo-religious warrior acting as the cutting edge for a backroom that hate the country.

    • JJC

      Wow, things must have really changed for young men up there. 40 years ago I lived in Calgary and it wasn’t like that, no, no, not at all!Sorry. Oh, it was Clinton’s financiers, not Bush’s that deserve your arrows. Time bombs, y’know…

  • Capnmikey

    Obama is NOT naive, he loves all marxist dictators like Chavez, Castro, Ortega, Morsi in Egypt, Putin in Russia, Mugabe in Zimbabawe, and he wants to become one! He learned his Marxism 101 at Columbia from Cloward and Piven, and Communism 101 at Harvard Marxist Law school from Elena Kagan.He hates the United States, capitalism, and freedom, he is encouraging a racial civil war that will cause him to impose Martial Law and declare our Constitution null and void. (cancelling our Second Amendment rights!) Then all he has to do is cancel the 2016 elections and declare himself President for Life. It worked so well in Zimbabwe! His lackeys in our military will not resist.

  • JVR

    The Senate could not stop Ceasar, and the Congress cannot stop President Obama.

  • Jack A. Napes

    “Anything could happen with Obama in his final two years in the White House.”

    Yeah, well just wait until his last 60 days in office, and especially his last 48 hours in office.

    Expect things like pardoning all black felons in prison….

  • JayWye

    I expect Comrade Obama to find some excuse to completely abandon Israel and shove all US support over to the “Palestinians”.
    Perhaps even use US force to get Israel to move out of “Palestine”.

    Because the opposite of that is what the US should be doing.

  • JJC

    Yes. Anyone who ascribes obama’s perversity to naivete or incompetence gets the back of my hand. They are the dumb ones who enable him to do what he has done. Malevolence and evil and hatred are what motivate that creature.

  • RL

    Thought you had to have competence to be an Imposter!