Posted on 10/15/2009 7:54:42 PM PDT by conservativeauditor
A $42.8 billion Homeland Security budget cleared the House Thursday after Democrats won a showdown vote preserving President Barack Obama’s authority to temporarily transfer Guantanamo prisoners into the United States for the purpose of prosecution.
Republicans had prevailed on the same issue when framed as part of a non-binding resolution two weeks ago. But Democrats have since dug in, their lines stiffened in what became a test of loyalty to the president’s stand on Guantanamo and their own ability to break the impasse over year-end appropriations bills.
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New York Rep. Peter King, the ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, warned that allowing (Guantanamo) prosecutions in the U.S. “is a time bomb waiting to happen.”
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I guess they believe these are basically nice boys who will vote Dem and settle down. Maybe become part of ZERO’s administration on national security. Can’t be any more dangerous than his Czars.
HELL HE WILL MAKE HIS CZARS!
So that’s why we don’t have a budget yet.
Cretins.
[authority to temporarily transfer Guantanamo prisoners into the United States for the purpose of prosecution]
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you....
And, since they can’t be tried as ‘foreign military’, I guess we have to pay for each of them to have their own lawyer at what ever trials they might have.
And Muhamed Atta’s brother will be appointed security czar for airports, right?
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The ACLU will sue in Fed Court to block any return to GITMO if the terrorists are convicted
The Muzzies can be required to be released and subsidized financially - and awarded millions of US taxpayer bucks if found not guilty in a court her
e in the US.
Obama has already sent Islamic terrorist from GITMO to island paradise islands to live in luxury paying the country or island - millions to take each of them
Oh yeah - An “free” ACLU defense attorney paid for by US taxpayers!
Whatta bunch of bull.
Nice graphic on the wild-man Dr. House.
While I’ve had mostly good results with my physicians here in the USA...
I’ve managed to survive about three episodes where I wish Dr. House had
been my attending physicians.
US Medical Schools turn out some of the best-and-brightest.
And some truely DANGEROUS brainiacs: that are as weird as Dr. House
but a whole-h-ll of a lot dumber.
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