Adventures of the Coconut Caucus

So I know that when you get new powers it is nice to have a look upgrade, but this is scary: (Or could it be that a Cuban woman has kidnapped her and is posing as Solís in order to get to Miami?)

Democratic U.S. congresswoman Hilda Solis and other U.S. legislators arrive at a hotel in Havana December 15, 2006. Solis is a member of a delegation of ten Republican and Democratic representatives for a three day visit to Cuba. The legislators are leading advocates of easing sanctions against Cuba in the U.S. Congress. REUTERS/Claudia Daut (CUBA)

Just a few hours ago she looked like this:

¿Qué te pasó mija? Or did Reuters hire, again, that guy who did the photos from Beirut? Obviously Reuters has no idea who is in the Coconut Caucus

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Since he used like 5 different names, and probably all false, we won’t be able to give him proper credit.

And I can’t resist adding that Silvestre Reyes, worked for the Border Patrol for years.

An officer realized the man was an illegal immigrant while interviewing arriving passengers at the Tampa Greyhound bus station, said Steve McDonald, who heads the patrol’s Tampa Border Station.

The man told the agent he had left his bags in the station. When the agent left to retrieve them, the man escaped.

The man gave several names to the agent, McDonald said, and was in possession of three Mexican birth certificates, two counterfeit immigration cards and two Social Security cards.

He added that the man most frequently uses the name Amado Cruz-Diaz, though he also possessed identification with the names Ernesto Guzman, Pedro Montejo and Armando Cruz-Dilla.

The border patrol and Tampa police officers are searching for the man, described as being 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-10 with brown hair and eyes and between 145 and 165 pounds.

He was also wearing handcuffs.

The full report

Sometimes when you say stupid things, it is better NOT to try to explain IT further and just hope the whole issue disappears, pray to la virgen, and try to do better next time you talk on the record to a reporter.

But like a bad Kerry joke, Reyes tries to explain why, despite being on the Intelligence Committee for years, and now being promoted to Chair, he doesn’t know the first thing about, well, “intelligence matters”.

(btw, I luv this pic)

In a more recent interview he blames the whole affair on being “High Profile”.

“Former U.S. Senator Alan Simpson used to like to say, one week you’re the toast of the town and then the next week you’re literally toast,” Reyes said while in El Paso.

(Hello? you weren’t high profile until CNN and everybody else mocked you for not knowing the answers to basic intelligence questions. And as far as I know you were NEVER the toast of the town, unless you mean like Canutillo, Texas, but even there…)

Then he goes on to say that it is really not how ignorant you are at the beginning of being chair, but at the end.

“It’s not so important — the bumps along the way — but how you do the job,” Reyes said.

(At this rate by the end of the year he might be able to find Iraq on a map)

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