Les républicains veulent bloquer la stratégie cubaine d'Obama

Peu de critiques hier après l'annonce du président Obama qui veut normaliser les relations avec Cuba. Sans étonnement, les rares notes discordantes proviennent des républicains du congrès. Ils établissent actuellement un plan pour freiner la mise ne place des annonces d'hier.

 "Just hours after Obama announced that a prisoner swap with the Cuban government for two Americans was the start of a new relationship with the communist country, Republicans began informally kicking around ideas to stop any changes to the U.S.-Cuba relationship.

On the list: deny Obama funds to reopen an embassy in Havana, stall the nomination of a potential ambassador, vote down a bill to open up travel more widely and ignore requests from the White House to lift a decades-old embargo.

When Republicans control the Senate next year, the party would be in a good position to get some of their plans done. But even if they can’t fully stop Obama, who has some authority to act without Congress, the dispute will provide another opportunity for the president’s Hill rivals, including 2016 likely hopefuls Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, to continue to question his use of executive action — a theme Republicans had already planned to take on next year around Obama’s moves on immigration and Obamacare.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/congress-cuba-reaction-113654.html