President Obama’s December Cuba surprise has sent
both John Boehner and Mitch McConnell reeling as the president has again
demonstrated his tactical superiority over the repugican congressional
leadership.
Speaker of the House John Boehner reached deep into
the empty bag of repugican shrieking points and pulled out the old Obama
is caving to dictators line.
Boehner said,
“Relations with the Castro regime should not be revisited, let alone
normalized, until the Cuban people enjoy freedom – and not one second
sooner. There is no ‘new course’ here, only another in a long line of
mindless concessions to a dictatorship that brutalizes its people and
schemes with our enemies. If anything, this emboldens all state
sponsors of terrorism, as they now have an even better idea of what the
president meant when he once told Russian leaders he would have ‘more
flexibility’ after his re-election. We have seen this before, and I
fear we will see it again. Despite these reservations about the
president’s changes in our policy toward this communist regime, we all
feel great joy and relief for Alan Gross and his family. Americans do
not forget our own, and we speak out today because we have a moral
responsibility not to forget anyone anywhere who longs for liberty and
dignity.”
Mitch McConnell had even less to say.
McConnell would only say that agreed with Marco Rubio (r-FL),
“Sounds like the correct response to me. I think he knows more about
this than almost anybody in the Senate if not everybody in the Senate
and I wouldn’t differ with his characterization.”
Rubio’s response consisted of a temper tantrum where the Florida repugican compared Obama to Jimmy Carter.
After causing chaos within the repugican cabal with
his immigration executive actions, President Obama has exposed more
fractures and divides with his announcement of a change in policy
towards Cuba. The end result has been Boehner disagreeing with Chamber
of Commerce, House repugicans disagreeing with each other, and Mitch
McConnell looking like a stooge by offering up a variation of yeah, what
he said as a response.
The repugican control of Congress has unleashed
President Obama, and if the last two months are any indication, Boehner
and McConnell are in for a very difficult two years.
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