The Wacko Cuban Congressman, Castro, and Heinz Kerry

On this point, I'm apt to sound like a conservative, but I'm really tired of having people come here from another country, become legislators, and then use American dollars and the American system to try to control the results they want in their former homeland. It makes no sense to me.

This occurs again and again with the Cuban exile community, who I view as single-handedly responsible for keeping Castro in power all these years by designing measures that waste money and other resources trying to unseat Castro, from the Bay of Pigs to immigration policy to the Cuban embargo to Elian Gonzalez, the little boy they wanted to steal from his remaining parent. If it's egregious, illegal, and stupid, they go for it.

It doesn't matter to them - all well-heeled, well-dressed, and sanctimonious - that the Cuban people are starving, poorly cared for, and severely limited DIRECTLY BECAUSE OF THEIR EFFORTS. No, all they care about is punishing Castro.

Younger, smarter Cuban Americans have embraced America as their home and just wish Castro was out of power. And Castro is in his late 70s now. How long is he going to last? I'm not excusing Castro. I'd like to see him gone, too. But there's more to the Cuban revolution than these Congressmen like to say. Cubans were in bad shape before Castro, because rich people like the older exile Cubans here now owned everything and largely enslaved their own country people to work for them. Castro changed that. Now almost everyone is poor.

Read this story, and you'll see the Cuban nut quotient (which I see as quite different from thousands of Cubans who have come here and truly established themselves as Americans) in Congress is now alleging that Teresa Heinz Kerry deliberately supported measures that supported Cuba.

Bogus? Sure.

But think of something else. These same Congressmen support measures that allow anyone from Cuba who can touch the shores of American soil to get on the fast track to American citizenship. Everyday, people are involved in efforts to try to get more Cubans to come over using this policy. Nobody from any other country gets this benefit. Only Cubans. In fact, when Guatemalan illegal aliens lost three of their children in an accident last week and could not return to Guatemala to bury their children, one of these Cuban Congresskooks, Ros-Lehtinen, said too fucking bad. Them's the rules. And they are the rules, unless you're Cuban.

So what if al Qaeda decides to come here through Cuba?