And the Republicans are bowing to Obama's agenda again? - Granite Grok

And the Republicans are bowing to Obama’s agenda again?

CubaAll I can do is shake my head in disbelief:

WASHINGTON (AP) — A GOP-controlled Senate panel has voted to lift a decades-long ban on travel to Cuba, giving a boost to President Barack Obama’s moves to ease travel restrictions and open up relations with the Castro-governed nation.  The Senate Appropriations Committee also voted to block enforcement of a law prohibiting banks and other U.S. businesses from financing sales of U.S. agricultural exports to Cuba.

The Obama administration issued rules in January to significantly ease travel restrictions to Cuba and allow regularly scheduled flights for the first time. The Senate Appropriations Committee 18-12 vote comes just days after the U.S. and Cuba formally ended more than a half-century of estrangement by re-establishing diplomatic relations cut off during the Cold War.

We have the opportunity to increase the likelihood that Cuban people have greater liberties and freedom with the ability to connect with them,” said sponsor Jerry Moran, R-Kan. “I also would say that as Americans we have certain freedoms that we cherish, and Americans can travel around the globe today without exception – no country is totally prohibited with the exception of Cuba.”

Sure.  And Iran will like us, too, and abide by the nuke agreement they rooked Lurch / LiveShot on as well.  And one way that Obama can close Gitmo is by now giving it back as a “token of friendship” and “apologize for our theft of it” (after all, he’s spent all his Presidency apologizing for the US).  How’d that work for us when Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama Canal – and now the ChiComs effectively control it (he who is at the controls controls that thing).

And once again, the Republicans are just serving it up on a silver platter.

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