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Senate Confirms Radical Aponte as Ambassador to El Salvador

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  June 14th, 2012 at 03:00 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

It’s another day in the Senate, and another radical Obama nominee is confirmed.

Last August, flustered by Jim DeMint’s Senate hold, Obama used a recess appointment to name Maria del Carmen Aponte ambassador to El Salvador.  She was originally selected as ambassador to the Domincan Republic during the Clinton administration, but she withdrew her name after refusing to take a polygraph test concerning her relationship with Cuban spy, Roberto Tamayo.  Nonetheless, radical rejects of the Clinton administration are the very people whom Obama loves to recycle.

Aponte’s recess appointment expired at the end of the year, but almost every Republican (except for Brown and Collins) united to oppose cloture on her nomination.  Aside for the national security concerns, Republicans were concerned that Aponte would promote her radical social agenda in a country where we are trying to develop a close relationship.  A while back, Aponte published an opinion piece that called into question the religious and pro-family culture of Salvadorans.

Yesterday, the media reported that Harry Reid would try to bring up cloture on the Aponte nomination once again.  I didn’t think much of it at the time.  After all, why would Republicans drop their objections?  Well, evidently 9 Republicans felt it was time to give up.  Cloture was invoked earlier today, followed by confirmation via voice vote.

What changed?  Marco Rubio lent his support to Aponte in the last minute.  I guess it’s not just immigration.

Here are the Republican yay votes:

Ayotte

Brown

Collins

Graham

Lugar

McCain

Murkowski

Rubio

Snowe

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  • siobhankelly

    Immigration now crazy Obama radicals- forget you Marco- another RINO. I hope Romney does not pick him for VP

  • ihateliberals

    The mask is about to fall off and Rubio will be fully exposed. Unfortunately the person that might remove the mask is Mitt Romney who himself is waring a mask. he claims conservatism but his actions are liberal. If he should choose Rubio as his running mate we would hve no balance in the White House at all. The only good thing is that Romney beats Obama. That is an absolute must happen event. As much as I dont like Romney i ten times as mcuh don’t like Obama. I have been a hardline partisan conservative Republican since i was 15 years old.

    All the people on this list should be sitting on the other side of the isle. I think the name that upsets me the most is John McCain. He sides with almost every Liberal idea that comes along. I am sxuprised that he and Snowe didn’t vote for Obamacare.

    • fuzzyuno

      Rush always says don’t pay attention to what he says. Pay attention to what he does.

      Rubio is of Cuban desent and now is acting like a Cuban, not an American. I am of German desent but I don’t act like a Nazi.

      The Tea Party Movement should drop Rubio like a plate of too hot Cuban food. If the Republicans are looking for a Hispanic poster child there sure as hell are mucho plenty of them that support the Conservative movement who are Americans first.

  • benson1

    My political love affair with Rubio was in jeopardy when he came out with support for illegal immigration but it ended angrily when he eagerly indorsed Romney.

    What we have now is a slightly better version of the Obama loving Crist, in other words a liberal Republican. I saw none of this coming. I diligently looked at what record I could find on Rubio and was content with what I found. It seems like the bad stuff only comes to the surface after their elected.

    Having said all that as long as he votes primarily with conservatives (not in the case we see) there’s not much to be done.

    God! I hate liberals no matter which side their on.

    • ihateliberals

      last year i started using the term instead of RINO. they are not the same thing. John Boehner is a Liberal Republican first class. so is John McCain and Mitch McConnell. Now we not only have to contend with RINO’s we have to deal with Liberals on both sides of the isle. Now in our Party we have the far Right and the left-wing of the Republican Party. I have been a hardline partisan Conservative since i was 15 i am now 65 so I have seen a lot of these guys. One thing though a Liberal Republican is still better than a Liberal Democrat. The problem is they both have the same goal just different routes to get there.

  • celador2

    Two rookie stars, media created and also on Romney’s interview list, voted YES along with several liberal party members known for getting along with Democrats.
    .
    Do Ayotte NH a woman and the more famous darling of professional punditry, Marco Rubio Hispanic, think Romney approves of their vote and support?

    Neither will do anything to look out of line with the party nominee. Are they moving center to look bipartisan and statesman- womanlike in an era of ‘gridlock and refusal to compromise’?

    .

  • http://uslibertyjournal.blogspot.com/ Daezy

    All the others — no surprise, but Rubio?!?

  • spinoneone

    with any luck at all she will be done at noon, January 20, 2013.

  • tnguy

    …is slowly unmasking himself as a fraud.

  • fuzzyuno

    A few years ago I became a friend of an engineer from Guatamala. He said his uncle ran for President there. He said in Central America if politicians don’t fullfill their promises to the people they (the people) shoot their politicians unlike America where they unelect them.

    So perhaps this Ambassador will be removed the Central American Way or with a New Administration. Either way would be very ok with me.

  • JimmyGee

    WTF? Is Rubio working some “I want to be VP” angle? DId they drug him? I don’t get it.

  • edintexas

    I have to conclude that Marco Rubio is revealing himself to be a fairly typical East Coast Republican politician. Maybe he’s afraid that all those escapees from the NY metro area moving to Florida have to be attended to. Or maybe he figures the Democrats will convince Hispanic voters that a vote against a Hispanic nominee is racism (of course they will claim that, they can’t help themselves).