In a sense, it could be called the “joke of the week”…or maybe, the year…or maybe of the 8 year period beginning in 2009, ending (hopefully) in 2016.
The “quip”, actually intended as a serious statement is found in a piece by WSJ writer Mary Anastasia O’Grady, the paper’s Central and South America political affairs expert.
In her column, Ms. O’Grady writes of President Obama’s efforts to “rehabilitate” the Castro brothers, which she suggests may be the most boneheaded policy action of his disastrous foreign policy.
The grimly amusing statement by Ms. O’Grady is set up by this: While noting Obama’s abject submissiveness to various of Raul Castro’s demands as he groveled before the Cuban thug, O’Grady says that, in order for the US president to really gain the status of a “hero” to the states attending the Panama “7th Summit of the Americas” this week, he’d have to grant Cuba’s biggest demands, removing the country from the US list of state sponsors of terror and the US return to Cuba of Guantanamo.
“Granting most of the Cuba demands would require approval from the US Congress”, Ms. O’Grady asserts in what must be the most ironic and irrelevant remark one can make in the Era of Obama.
“…WOULD REQUIRE APPROVAL OF THE US CONGRESS.”
What a quaint little notion!
Barack Obama demonstrates now almost daily that “approval of the US Congress” is a concept of a bygone era which Congress itself seems to acknowledge and many Americans are not even aware of.
DLH
Obama Congress? hmmm. well, the House runs the cash register. thanks for another non biased commentary. yeah, we would have been better w Palin a heartbeat away. then when REPUBLICAN voters realized what a disgrace – they would have selected “end Medicare” Romney. see youse election nite. when Hillary arrives with about 25 million AHCA sign ups and unemployment at 4.0%. don’t look so sad.