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« Understand how taxes work, people. | Main | SuperMegaSpeed Reviews » Menendez blocks Obama science appointees based on Cuba policyTPM: Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), a strong supporter of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba, is launching a full-on battle this week to remove several provisions from the 2009 government spending bill that would open a small crack in the slammed door of relations with Havana. But the nominees Menendez has chosen to hold are pivotal presidential allies in the push to regulate carbon emissions -- and Menendez has been admirably outspoken about the need to act on climate change. Was holding up Holdren, a longtime critic of Bush-era science policy, the best way to start a reasoned dialogue on Cuba policy? Usually the wack-job politicians are from red states where we don't have much influence over them, but i'm embarrassed to say that this is one of ours. Let him know his Cold War era Cuban policy is not acceptable to New Jerseyans, especially (?) when it's holding up progress on climate change . By fnord12 | March 3, 2009, 12:23 PM | Liberal Outrage |