The Solons Plan a Road Trip!

Our crack Senators (and previously our Representatives) say it's party time in Cuba!

The Senate joined the House on Thursday in striking at the four-decade-old policy of making travel to Cuba a criminal act, putting Congress on a collision course with Bush administration efforts to step up enforcement of travel restrictions.

The travel ban does nothing to hurt Fidel Castro," said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D. "It only harms Americans." He was co-sponsor of the measure, passed 59-36, that bars use of government money to enforce current travel restrictions.

If it doesn't hurt the old rogue, why is he always whining about it? Maybe because he wants his fair share of all the tourist bucks? And I do mean all tourists:

Castro appears to be contributing to prostitution and the increase in prostitution tourism by his own tolerance. He remarked that Cuban women are prostitutes not because they needed to be but rather because they liked to make love, and that they are the most educated and the healthiest prostitutes on the market.

Woohoo!

But I've got a solution that will make everyone happy. Just knock off Fidel and open the floodgates. I know he's hard to catch, but that's half the fun.