[unkus]

WTH?

[Buckeye McFrog]

more like a head fake to keep us all talking about this while they cram through Obamacare. Perhaps it was just that all along...

[submarinerswife]

Obama playing more games. First reconciliation smoke and mirrors, now Gitmo.

Expect another three years of this bull$hit.

[tacticalogic]

I think they've figured out that a civil trial will be a PR nightmare for the administration.

If he's found guilty, the juror's lives are very much at risk if their identities are known. If they keep the jury hidden, it's a tacit admission that the "religion of peace" is not, and they know it.

[TChris]

You don’t agree to do a stupid thing that endangers the country just because your opposition has magnanimously come off its insistence that you do two stupid things that endanger the country.

Money quote.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Once again, the media kingmakers are involved trying to get THEIR agenda enacted.

But.............

You know what this is? The overton window. You want 5 dollars, so you go ask dad for $20 dollars. “WHAT? No son, you can’t have $20. Here is $5”

Obama only “really” wanted Gitmo closed. So he proposed something far, far radical.

Now he and his kingmaker buds over at the WaPo will soften the stance and make it seem like he’s moderating.

BTW, the WaPo kingmakers are helping out a progressive republican here too. Let that be noticed.