Indeed. It's something every day with this guy. Constantly rebel-rousing between factions of Americans, dividing between demographics of color and creed with his grievance politics (Michelle knows those well), and as of late, along with his AG, turning the liberal masses (including his media sychophants) against the very authority figures who protect and serve the civil society. Need I mention his support of FrankenFeinstein's attack on the CIA? Then on Wednesday, as Congress wraps up for a recess entering the holiday season, Obama feels inspired to act on more executive fiat and endorses the restoration of diplomatic relations with the Castro regime. Hates our police, but loves police-states! Little bit of a tortured conundrum, no? Levin exposes Obama's undeniable hypocrisy on Cuba...RedState: The United States Congress just declared Barack Obama’s actions on amnesty unconstitutional, then promptly funded them.
I said just a few weeks ago that if the congress did that, it would embolden Barack Obama on a host of other foreign and economic policy matters.
Here we are.
TRS: Mark Levin gave a brilliant monologue today on Obama seeking to normalize relations with Cuba, exposing the blatant hypocrisy in how Obama deals with evil dictatorships versus how he deals with America.Listen below:
I'll end where I begin and let Erickson take this one out...
RedState: Few could have predicted that communist regimes would win the day on December 17, 2014. Communism was so twentieth century. But Barack Obama, promising to fundamentally transform America, has done so. His mentor, communist activist Frank Marshall Davis, would be proud of him.Related links: Ted Cruz: Obama being played by Cuba’s brutal dictator
To reiterate my conclusion on Barack Obama’s world view and policy objectives: to make the world safer, the United States must be less safe. To make the world more stable, the United States must be less stable. To make the world more prosperous, the United States must be less prosperous.
Assisting Barack Obama in this are the Washington technocrats, bureaucrats, and numerous party apparatchiks of both parties who have decided America is in decline and the decline should be managed instead of overcome.
So as the ruble craters and Venezuela crumbles, both having subsidized the communist regime in Cuba, Barack Obama will step in to prop up the regime. It is worth noting that, despite all the claims that the Cuban embargo was not successful, its requirements that Cuba purchase American products in cash instead of on credit has kept the Cuban regime from accumulating wealth to the degree of other communist despots. Read the liberal Washington Post Editorial Board on this.
Now, Barack Obama will ensure the Castro brothers and their heirs accumulate great wealth and all the Cubans have to do is promise to give greater internet access to their citizens. That’s it.
Cuban dictator to Obama: You should use executive action to lift this embargo by yourself
Stupid of the Day: Shep Smith worried that Cuba will be ‘RUINED’ by Taco Bell and Lowes
Mark Levin slams Shephard Smith for his comments on Cuba being ruined by Taco Bells opening
ADDENDUM I: BTW, if you're wondering how this was set up...
Never mind that Obama doesn't have the damn authority to lift the Cuban Embargo!DailySignal: Cuba’s release of American hostage Alan Gross is to be welcome. Gross has vegetated in a Cuban jail for five years for the crime of bringing computers to Jews on the island.
But exchanging three hardened Cuban spies for him establishes a wrong moral and legal equivalency. Worse, extending recognition to Cuba’s dictatorial regime harms U.S. national interests and fails to advance freedom in Cuba.
The White House “Fact Sheet” on Cuba makes clear that the Obama administration received nothing in exchange for its many and substantial concessions to Havana’s Communist regime. In essence, after five years of “negotiations,” the White House ended up where Raul Castro started: Gross would be exchanged for three Cuban spies whose activities led to the death of an American in the 1990s.
The administration’s announcement that “the president has instructed the secretary of state to immediately initiate discussions with Cuba on the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba,” also gives in to a longstanding Castro demand. Cubans will not gain freedom of expression, of association, of thought or of anything else as a result.
ADDENDUM II: Rush interjected more insight, saying Obama is propping up another dictatorship in our hemisphere: "...the Cuban government is gonna remain a communist government under the tight-fisted control of the Castro brothers..."
Yeah, Rubio's got a LOT of making up to do (if that's even possible, doubtful).TruthRevolt: Rush Limbaugh tore into the president’s announcement of the full restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba Wednesday, saying the move made it official, “we're gonna use taxpayer dollars to prop up another communist dictatorship in our hemisphere.”
Limbaugh started the segment by explaining that the practical implications of the move is that Americans will now be able to get Cuban cigars, but the real intent of the administration of course is to “prop up another dictatorship,” this one just “90 miles away.” Echoing Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Limbaugh underscored that the deal would cement the Castro regime's tyrannical control over the island:
"I mean, there are reasonable arguments on both sides of this in normalizing relations with Cuba. But one of the things that's inescapable that's gonna happen here is that the Cuban government is gonna remain a communist government under the tight-fisted control of the Castro brothers and whoever is in power in that regime, and we're gonna be propping it up. We are going to be essentially providing financial aid."Limbaugh also mocked the “sophistry” involved in the arguments from the left which simultaneously deny U.S. exceptionalism while blaming Cuba’s economic woes on America’s embargo:
"Cuba can and does trade with every nation on earth, except the United States, and since there's nothing exceptional about us, it shouldn't be any big deal. I mean, we're no different than any other nation, according to the American left, so big whoop.Sen. Rubio, meanwhile, has vowed to "make every effort" to block Obama's plan. Rubio will be the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Western Hemisphere subcommittee in the new Congress beginning in January.
Okay, so we don't trade with 'em. They still trade with the UK. They trade with the Europeans.They trade with the Saudis. They trade with the United Arab Emirates. They trade with Canada. They trade with the ChiComs. I mean, they're in bed with everybody but us and yet the Cuban people are still living on the equivalent of, what, two bucks a day. So how can that be? There is no such thing as American exceptionalism. There's no such thing as an exceptional America.
The left cannot admit that opening up trade between America and Cuba would save Cuba because that would mean there's something special about us since they can trade with every other nation on earth."
