Shocker: Democrats Won’t Fund Closing Of Guantanamo Bay

Proof • May 19, 2009

In order to close down Guantanamo Bay you have to have money. The detainees have to be moved somewhere. Supplies and equipment have to be moved out. Personnel has to be brought in to handle it all. It isn’t cheap. But you’d think that the Democrats, who made a campaign issue out of how evil Guantanamo Bay is, would be happy to pay to remove the black mark on America’s soul (as they have it) the detention facility represents.
As it turns out, the Democrats are finding that Gitmo is an easier issue to campaign on than it is to handle as political leaders.

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s allies in the Senate will not provide funds to close the Guantanamo Bay prison next January, a top Democratic official said Tuesday.
With debate looming on Obama’s spending request to cover military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the official says Democrats will deny the Pentagon and Justice Department $80 million to relocate Guantanamo’s 241 detainees.

This comes on the heels of yesterday’s news that Senator Jim Webb has now flip-flopped on his support for closing the detention facility. Which, again, indicates that the Guantanamo Bay issue is a lot tricker than the Democrats realized. Remember that back in January, Obama’s Secretary of Health (then still Governor of Kansas) Katherine Sebelius said that she didn’t want the Gitmo detainees in her state.
And that’s the problem. Far from being the sympathetic victims the liberals have made them out to be, these are dangerous prisoners of war. Releasing them, or even just moving them somewhere else, is problematic.
Really, what this all indicates, is that Bush had it right about Guantanamo. It’s never been the best solution, but it’s always been the best among a lot of bad options.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics

http://Array erick1740

I think I hear heads exploding at the Huffington post and daily kos.
http://thecollegehockeyblog.wordpress.com/ Stephen A Fetch

- Harry Reid
Now they are terrorists!
I seem to remember that during the election they were innocent victims of BushChimpMcHalliburton who werebeing detained illegally in a place that made the Soviet gulags look like Disneyland.

Sounds like Reid is worrying about winning and election in his district and not partisan politics.
http://bullwinkleblog.com/ Bullwinkle

But the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, seemed to ramp up the concerns of Congressional Democrats, insisting during a news conference that lawmakers would never allow the terror suspects to be released into the United States and suggesting that they would never allow them to be transferred to American prisons.

“Guantanamo makes us less safe,” Mr. Reid said. “However this is neither the time nor the bill to deal with this. Democrats under no circumstances will move forward without a comprehensive, responsible plan from the president. We will never allow terrorists to be released into the United States.”

- Harry Reid

Now they are terrorists!

I seem to remember that during the election they were innocent victims of BushChimpMcHalliburton who werebeing detained illegally in a place that made the Soviet gulags look like Disneyland.
jimmypop

But Obama promised….

and so did that dirt bag johnny mac….. that said, i actually believe Mac would have done it. while barry is just confused….
http://www.valleydeals.com/cgi-bin/board2/YaBB.pl Kevin

Apparently, some members of the free lunch bunch still remember what happened when Jimmy Carter took in all the inmates from Castro’s prisons.
Bat One

Even Democrats aren’t stupid enough to bring those terrorist detainees into their own home states. Not if they want to stay in office.

So once again, George W. Bush is proven to be a lot more shrewd than his thoughtless, “progressive” critics.
robert108

The facade of hype is starting to show some cracks…
Obama’s terrorist-appeasement policies don’t sit well with real Americans.
Bodhi

It was just another case of the Democrats and especially Obama talking out their asses without having any clue as to what the situation was. Now that Obama is in power, his fantasy land approach to Guantanamo is coming to be realized for the flawed logic it is and was. No one else wants to take these cretins. The countries they claimed to be from will not take them back, and he is forced to realize that sending them to the states just represents an area that protesters can gather at.

He and the democrats are fools for suggesting the closing of Guantanamo to begin with.
Arsenal

But Obama promised….
Rudy

It may feel good to say “I told you so”, but the truth is that Democrats extracted the ultimate value from this and other red herrings–they used them to win the election.

And their flip flops now are unlikely to make much difference in future elections, given how clueless most voters are.

As is often the case, the slimy move is a smart one politically.
ChuckD

The children are in charge of the nursery now, but at least they’ve realized that you can’t just let the pit bulls out of their cages. Unfortunately, as Rudy said, they’ve already gained the political benefit from saying they’d close Gitmo as the leftwing media hyped the story of “torture” during the election. Their new posture of enlightened responsibility will win them kudos from the same bunch of morons that entrusted them with our security in the first place.
SigFan

It’s always easier to criticize the leader than it is to lead. These guys are just now finding out that their pie-in-the-sky view of things just doesn’t work when they have to take responsibility for the outcome.
http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

Strange… They spent more money on the debacles with Chrysler and so forth without a problem…

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