Batten Down The Hatches!
There is a storm a brewing......
In an abrupt shift, Senate Democratic leaders said they would not provide the $80 million that President Obama requested to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The move escalates pressure on the president, who on Thursday is scheduled to outline his plans for the 240 terrorism suspects still held there.
The House had already voted against the funding...Meanwhile a Federal Judge ruled that indefinite detentions were A-OK. All of this is a continuation of Bush regime policies that the Democrats PROMISED they would overturn once they got their guy in the White House. What's even worse is that now the White House is saying that they may have been "hasty" in signing the Executive Order on Day 1! Of course, no Republicans had ever said that it would be hasty to close Gitmo - Noooooooo
I wonder if we will see Code Pink and World Can't Wait attacking this administrations officials and calling them "war criminals"...or is that a privilege that they only give to Republicans?????
In an abrupt shift, Senate Democratic leaders said they would not provide the $80 million that President Obama requested to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The move escalates pressure on the president, who on Thursday is scheduled to outline his plans for the 240 terrorism suspects still held there.
The House had already voted against the funding...Meanwhile a Federal Judge ruled that indefinite detentions were A-OK. All of this is a continuation of Bush regime policies that the Democrats PROMISED they would overturn once they got their guy in the White House. What's even worse is that now the White House is saying that they may have been "hasty" in signing the Executive Order on Day 1! Of course, no Republicans had ever said that it would be hasty to close Gitmo - Noooooooo
I wonder if we will see Code Pink and World Can't Wait attacking this administrations officials and calling them "war criminals"...or is that a privilege that they only give to Republicans?????
Labels: Gitmo Conditions, President Obama
posted by The Lady Logician at
9:25 PM
3 Comments:
Running the country is not nearly as easy as the previous 43 presidents made it look, eh Barry?
And as was obvious to the less-smitten amongst us, the pollyana gobbledygook he laid on the left to get himself elected was never going to work in reality- a fact that the calculating opportunist Obama likely knew full-well back when he was promising them the moon and the stars.
http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com
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Reaganite Republican Resistance, at 4:44 AM
And now for what Gibbs actually said:From the May 20 White House press briefing:
Q: This is a President who has not been afraid to admit that he made a mistake in the past when he made one. If you say Congress deserves a plan before we ask them for resources, was it a mistake to ask for the resources before you give them a plan?
MR. GIBBS: It was a mistake to set up something that became a rallying cry for enemies around the world and to hope for so long that we could simply continue to perpetuate the theory of keeping detainees there while the courts ruled otherwise.
I don't doubt that the President -- and I think he'll say this tomorrow -- that we've made some hasty decisions that are now going to take some time to unwind. And closing Guantanamo Bay obviously is one of those decisions.
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Jason The, at 12:03 PM
That's a privilege they only give Republicans. What matters to liberala is always intentions, not actual results, and certainly not something that's actually realizable in the real world.
J. Ewing
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