TIA would face barrier to Cuba flights with Rubio amendment

Source: St. Petersburg Times

TIA would face barrier to Cuba flights with Rubio amendment
By Steve Huettel, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Tuesday, February 15, 2011

On track for federal approval to launch new flights to Cuba, Tampa International Airport has hit a political speed bump.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio last week proposed an amendment to a Federal Aviation Authority funding bill that would prohibit any additional flights between the United States and countries, such as Cuba, designated as "state sponsors of terrorism'' by the State Department.

The amendment, the Republican freshman's first in the Senate, is designed to counter changes the Obama administration announced last month that loosened travel restrictions for college students and religious and cultural groups, Rubio said.

"Increasing direct commercial or charter aircraft flights with state sponsors of terrorism is totally irresponsible and would amount to unilateral gifts to tyrants and regimes that actively undermine America's security," he said in a statement Monday.

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something new everyday

activity.

but if it is not by another rich republican it is not allowed.....capitalism my assss

for electing that Shit Stain to the Senate.

:evilgrin:

But she won't, for fear of a political backlash.

This woman helped Bill Clinton with his Presidential campaigns in that area, and has been their physical tie to the Cuban reactionary community in South Florida. Unfortunately, she has swallowed all that radical, right-wing, reactionary Batistiano crappola which is wildly deranged, rigid, and fascist. In their old Batista-ruled Cuba, their racist minority ruled over the entire island, kept a deep distance from, and subjugation of the black descendants of people kidnapped and taken to Cuba to do all the work for the plantation owners.

Death squads were used to pick people out of the city, torture them, and often murder them, throw them out in the streets, or even hang them from trees, sometimes in pieces. Filthy group. In Miami, their violence turned Miami, through their internecine wars, their suppression of dissent, their retaliation at political enemies, the title "America's Terror Capital" given to it by the F.B.I.

Really, really sad to see an educated person like Hillary toeing that rabid right-wing line as she assists the "exiles" in controlling U.S. policy regarding Cuba.

Words defy me. :(

the neo cons