Noah Rothman at Mediaite.com offers a piece on Senator Marco Rubio's response to hign praise of the Cuban Communist dictatorship.
Upon returning from a trip to Cuba, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) appeared on the floor of the U.S. Senate and delivered a speech praising the Cuban government for what he called their advanced health care system and socialized education system. Upon hearing this speech, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) responded with a blistering attack on Cuba’s repressive government and his colleague’s credulous acceptance that tyrannical government’s pronouncements.
Rubio began by noting that a variety of the statistics Cuba purports to show that it is an advanced state when it comes to health services are massaged. “I heard him also talk about these great doctors that they have in Cuba,” Rubio said of his Iowa colleague. “I have no doubt they’re very talented. I’ve met a bunch of them. You know where I met them? In the United States, because they defected. Because in Cuba doctors would rather drive a taxi cab or work in a hotel than be a doctor.”
... What they are really good at is repression,” Rubio continued “They have exported repression in real time, in our hemisphere, right now.”
Rubio went on to discuss the violence being carried out against anti-government demonstrators in Venezuela and asserted that this violence was being carried out by a government propped up by Cuba. “But you want us to reach out and develop friendly relationships with a serial violator of human rights, who supports what’s going on in Venezuela and every other atrocity on the planet?” the senator asked of his Democratic colleagues. “On issue after issue, they are always on the side of the tyrants.”
You can read the rest of the piece and watch a video of Senator Rubio's speech via the below link:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/marco-rubio-unloads-on-dem-senator-for-praising-cuban-communism/
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