On Cuba, DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz is out of step with DNC, Obama

Miami Herald Naked Politics ^ | Marc Caputo

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Nearly all politicians who support longstanding hardline U.S. policy toward Cuba tend to be Cuban-American, Republican or both.

With one big exception: Weston U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz who happens to be the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. On Wednesday, after President Obama announced an historic deal to thaw the Cold War-era hostilities with Cuba, Wasserman Schultz was eerily quiet.

Then, when Wasserman Schultz spoke, she was clearly out of step with the DNC. Consider the statements each issued and their timing:

At 7:14 p.m., Wasserman Schultz's congressonal office released the most-tepid of statements that stopped well short of her usual full-throated support for what Obama does: “Like the President, I too envision a bright future for the Cuban people where their basic human rights are respected and they can access information freely. While I have always been opposed to unearned changes in the status of our relationship with Cuba, I will continue to work with the Administration, my colleagues, and community activists to support policies that benefit the Cuban people and do not further entrench the Castro regime.”

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The piece is basically an attack on Republicans for not supporting the celebration of the tyrants of Havana.

The "journalist" who wrote this merely apes the idea that Gallup has found most Americans agree with Valerie's protege about Cuba.

Of course, the same "journalist" isn't interested in asking what most Americans think about Obamacare.

[Gaffer]

DWS’s jar of “product” mayonnaise has expired and out of step with conventional grooming. So what else is new?

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My bet is there are lots of Cubans in Debbie Downer’s congressional district.

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Or perhaps Debbie plans on running for Senator from Florida some day - lots of Cubans in Florida.

[chud]

Like a lot of Obama's decisions, the Cuba policy makes no sense.
Every president until now, whether Democrat or Republican, has upheld the Cuba policy.
The current relazation of policy toward Cuba is unearned by the Castro regime, and therefore makes no sense.

[Michael.SF.]

She will toe the line. If she doesn't her fate will be similar to that of Menendez.

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Obama's relaxed Cuba policy may be the Democrats' undoing in the next election.
Remember, the decision on Elian Gonzalez hurt Gore badly in Florida, and possibly cost him the election.

[Vaduz]

The same journalist thinks that if the democrats could have only talked to Hitler everything would have turned out well for all.