Democrats Decide To Try And Close Gitmo By Cutting Off Funding…
...but only after the President has already decided himself to close it.
Which is a hilarious bit of political posturing, isn’t it? For the last several years Democrats have been adamant about the evils of Gitmo. They’ve compared the detention facility there to Stalin-era Soviet gulags, accused the troops there of torture and all but accused them of being worse than the terrorists they detain.
Yet throughout all the years Democrats have been harping on this in Congress (six months of which they’ve actually been in the majority) this is the first time they’ve tried to close the detention facility down. And they were only able to muster the courage to try and do it after the President said he was going to close it himself.
I’m sure they’re hoping that their rabid, far-left, anti-war base will see this as a strong move against the Bush administration (one that possibly makes up for their inability to hold up Iraq war funding earlier this year), but is that base really so stupid that they wouldn’t be able to see through a move as transparent as this one?
