CAPITOL HILL CUBANS
Even those that generally support changes in Cuba policy believe it's currently the wrong time -- albeit for political reasons in this instance.
An excerpt from Michael Tomasky in The Guardian:
But...why now? A president routinely called socialist and communist is going to go out of his way, two months before an election in which his party is likely to get pasted anyway, to announce a new opening with Cuba? What?!?
I smell some serious naivete here. I can hear White House aides saying, but this is a comparatively modest step that has the support of a majority of members of Congress. Right. And remember back when no one objected to the lower Manhattan mosque and Laura Ingraham thought it was a fine idea? You think Rick Scott, the Obama-hating and tea partying GOP gubernatorial nominee in Florida, won't make a little hay with a Castro rapprochement during election season? And you think every other Republican won't follow him?
"While the American economy is going down the chute, Barack Obama has just taken steps to help another national economy...Cuba's." Writes itself.
I really don't understand where these White House people are coming from sometimes.
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