Posted on 05/19/2009 9:54:50 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Moving to avoid a bitter partisan feud, Senate Democratic leaders have decided to remove from a war spending bill the $80 million that President Obama had requested to close the detention center for terrorist suspects at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
House Democrats had already removed the money from their version of the $96.7 billion military spending measure, which will finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and some other national security programs through Sept. 30. It was overwhelmingly approved last week by the House.
The Senate had included the money in its version of the legislation, headed for a vote this week, but with tight restrictions that for now at least would have barred the transfer of prisoners to the United States.
Both the House and Senate had directed the White House to provide a more detailed plan for closing the detention center and relocating the more than 200 terror suspects still being held there. The Obama administration has announced plans to revive the military tribunals first proposed by the Bush administration, but lawmakers were still clamoring for more information about what would happen to the terror suspects after the Guantánamo prison was closed.
In his first week in office, Mr. Obama signed an order for the prison to be closed by Jan. 22, 2010.
Senate Republicans had signaled their plans to propose several amendments related to the Guantánamo camp when the military spending bill reached the Senate floor later this week. Senator Richard C. Shelby, Republican of Alabama, and other Republicans at an Appropriations Committee hearing last Thursday that they were preparing amendments and would hold back from offering them to avoid delaying the bill.
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If the democrats will not close Gitmo, then they are admitting that Bush was right and they were wrong. That must be hard to swallow for a liberal nitwit democrat.
attach an amendment to bawney fwanks CA bailout bill requiring CA to take and house the prsioners. The we can all sit back with a cold one and a box of popcorn and watch the 9th Circut court of appeals make fools out of themselves.
Take a visit over to DU some time (before lunch) where the poor little things are torn between feeling betrayed by the 0ne or spinning like tops to explain his "playing chess". 1st the photos, 2nd the tribunals and now this new poop floating in their hopey changey punchbowl. Suckas.....
It’s obvious.
Execute them!
Why don’t we send them to prison in Hawaii? Aren’t they a Gitmo-hating blue state? At least if their terror-loving buddies break them out, they’re still stuck on an island in the middle of nowhere.
They will close it down when they make sure none of the detainees are sent to blue states where their constituents will complain. They will ram it down red states, like, they do with tax hikes.
What a bunch of political rubes the foot soldiers of The Hard Left are! What a bunch of naifs! What a bunch of maroons!
Yeah, Obama is gonna close Gitmo, you stupid chumps!
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Whottabunchastoopididjits! LOLOLOLOLOL!
Hopey-Changy! Dopey-Mangy!
Hey, Obama's got yer Closin Gitmo right here:
oo!o
Good point it fits well with their Islam Day.
I'm sure once on US soil some judge will give them full rights to US courts.
Democrats have complete control of the Senate!
Not to worry. The Media will cover for them.
Oh yeah, the Democrats (the nice guys) caved on Gitmo to avoid a bitter partisan feud. [***grimace***trying to keep a straight face***]
They will ram it down red states, like, they do with tax hikes.
But if they want to get off our rock they will, more than likely, end up in a blue state. The way I see it, they won’t want to stay in fly over country,where everyone goes to church with a gun. (according to the messiah)
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