breaking ties with China
enough abuses going on there
stop all trade with China
let's throw Russia in there too


Kentucky --- the home of The Tortoise and the Hair

There's a lot of anti-Castro Cuban ex-pats who vote Republican and support Bush. It also helps the GOP claim they have appeal with the Hispanic population.

The GOP doesn't give a day old dog turd about human rights abuses and has a long history of supporting them. Saint Ronnie illegally funneled money to terrorists and Poppa Bush helped "unrepentant terrorist" Orlando Bosch beat a murder rap in Argentina for bombing a Cuban airliner filled with civilians.

Top US diplomat in Cuba on short list for new embassy
By ANITA SNOW, Associated Press | July 1, 2015 | Updated: July 2, 2015 1:19pm

HAVANA (AP) — From his office high above Havana, Jeffrey DeLaurentis has a sweeping view of the cerulean Florida Straits and the blood-red letters declaring Cuba's defiance of the United States.

"Homeland or Death!" reads the sign erected in front of the U.S. Interests Section, a declaration installed 15 years ago when DeLaurentis was a more junior officer working to defuse a standoff over the fate of child rafter Elian Gonzalez.

Now, on this third assignment in communist Cuba, DeLaurentis is the top U.S. diplomat on the island, working to bring an end to more than a half-century of hostilities between the two countries. Known for his low-key style and public discretion, the 61-year-old diplomat also is on a short list for U.S. ambassador to Cuba, if there is to be one.

On Wednesday, DeLaurentis hand-delivered a letter from the White House to the Cuban Foreign Ministry about converting missions known as interest sections in the countries' respective capitals into full embassies.

More:
http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Top-American-diplomat-in-Cuba-in-line-to-head-new-6362162.php

in 1995 when I was there.

The republicans will get blasted if they fail to approve an ambassador.

The one and only thing they care about is themselves and if they were ordered by the varies people running the banks and corporations like the Koch brothers they would push their own grandmothers in a wheelchair off a cliff with a smile on their lizard lips.

The American public is totally in favor of normalizing relations. However, I welcome the fight where repukes will get raked over the coals.

And in the process alienate even more Latino voters. Depend on them to do the wrong thing almost always.

until the CoC tells him to sit down and STFU.

they stay in session on a nominal basis through their time away, having a Senator or two go in daily.

he just needs to look in the mirror & he can see a thuggish regime.

Lots of money to be made.

kowtowing to Republican Crazy is no longer on the option list.

Let the asshats have their objections to anyone at the confirmation hearing.

Bill Clinton would be excellent.

persons the Republicans may not like but whom they cannot politically say no to. This is not "kowtowing" but playing the game smarter - the art of politics not annoyance.

He thought everyone was biased against poor old Batista.

Because if we did, then it would be very apparent that McConnell has no idea what he is talking about.

We have relations with all kinds of shitty countries. In fact, one might argue that it is MOST important to have deiplomatic relations with shitty countries.