Senate Blocks Transfer of Gitmo Prisoners to U.S.A.

FOX NEWS | 5/20/2009 | staff

[kellynla]

Senate has voted to block transfer of Gitmo prisoners to U.S.A.

[VaBthang4]

HIP HIP...

[RetiredArmy]

ALL DURING THE BUSH YEARS - ALL you heard from the Marxist Dimocrats were that these people were uncharged, not criminals, were having their Constitutional rights violated, not charged, not terrorists: YET NOW TODAY, DICK TURBAN DURBIN ADMITS THEY ARE TERRORISTS AND THEY WILL NOT BE RELEASED IN THIS COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVERYTHING AGAINST BUSH AND THE GITMO WAS PURE, 100% POLITICS, PLAYED WITH OUR SAFETY!!! EVERY dimocrat should be sent packing off to live in Afghanistan!!!

[JudyinCanada]

I share your anger. These people are disgusting and NOBODY calls them on this stuff. Nobody, except Fox, will utter a sound about this treacherous posturing.

[glide625]

Crap........I was hoping they’d go to Washington or Oregon, or better yet.........Massachusettes.

[DoughtyOne]

Yep, I agree.

[Vinnie]

IMHO the I in C wanted this vote.

He stuck his finger in the wind, saw the public set against turning the prisoners loose and is using the vote to avoid keeping his promise.

[concerned about politics]

Well GITMO is officially the sole problem of the Socialist Democrat Party now.

Since they signed the huge stimulus packages to "save us all", so is the economy. They "fixed" it for us.

It's going to be a long 4 years.

[Tex Pete]

It’s just political cover for Obama.

A complete win-win.

[Carling]

Why doesn't the King just issue yet another executive order to impose his will on the land?

[DoughtyOne]

It sounds as if there may be the two thirds majority to overturn any such E.O. Heh heh heh...

[TomGuy]

NAYs -—6

Durbin (D-IL)
Harkin (D-IA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Whitehouse (D-RI)

Not Voting - 3

Byrd (D-WV)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Rockefeller (D-WV)

==

Hypocrisy:

John ‘I will close GITMO on Day 1 of MY presidency and move detainees to Ft. Leavenworth' McCain voted Yea (for the amendment) to keep detainees out of the US.

[stylecouncilor]

ping

[kellynla]

Thanks for posting.

[NautiNurse]

So ... who are the six damfools?

The usual suspects...

Durbin, Leaky, Levin, et al.

[Schnucki]

Fresh blow for Obama after Senate defeat over Guantánamo Bay

President Obama’s high-profile pledge to shut Guantánamo Bay was shot down by his own party today when Senate Democrats voted to block the transfer of detainees and refused to pay for the closure.

The blow is the latest setback for the Obama Administration, which has already disappointed supporters by announcing that controversial military tribunals for detainees, set up by President Bush but halted by Mr Obama on taking office, will be re-started.

Senators denied the request for $80 million to move the 240 detainees from the US military base in Cuba. They also voted 90 to six to prevent the Administration from transferring any of the facility’s prisoners to the US. ...

Times Online (U.K.)

[kellynla]

If you find out who didn’t vote, please let us know.
I guess Kennedy for sure and of course since they’re short one in MN, that only leaves one? Right??

Thanks,
Kelly

[kellynla]

Oh, never mind...I didn’t see the bottom of the post. LOL

[unixfox]

I GUARANTEE you Boxer, Feinstein, and Schumer voted with the other 3.

[unixfox]

Guess I was wrong.

[NautiNurse]

Byrd was hospitalized recently.