My best guess is the order was vague enough to allow Gitmo to remain open for an undetermined amount of time, just that they would start the process. Rush was so right, though.
No money, no closey. President doesn’t have the power of the purse, that belongs to Congress. His own party, when they controlled both houses, would not pay for the closing. That’s pretty weak leadership.
It helped that there were some in the Democrat party in Congress who were against this. If I recall correctly, Congress passed some kind of bill in 2009 that would cut off funds for closing Club Gitmo.
“Basically, the thinking is that the Democrats cannot afford to be seen as being weak on Defense.”
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A bit late for worry about this. The Rats have been weak on defense for many administrations. And now we have Obama, a staunch anti-American, anti-military, anti-strength weakling and widely recognized as such. To say nothing of the pandering to America’s enemies which has not ceased.
JFK was the last Democrat president in my opinion that cared about this country and its defense.
“Did Obama issue the Executive Order, but put the word out that he was just kidding? That this was simply a show for his base, but he never really intended for it to become reality?”
That can’t be true, because he wouldn’t do a show thing on inauguration day when other news will cover it
I do not recall such an executive order-—I don’t think one ever existed.
Congress refused to allocate dollars to create another prison in Illinois.
At first Mayor Blooming idiot agreed to have the KSM trial in NYC. The uproar had him backtracking pretty damn quick. Police Commissioner Kelly also was in favor of the trial.
They did hold one trial in NYC. An embassy bomber. He had hundreds of charges against him. He was acquitted on ALL but one charge.
At this point the dems dare not make themselves anymore terrorist friendly than they already appear.
He probably was just playing golf too much to follow through with making sure that the order was carried out.