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Dems don't fund Obama's bid to close Gitmo
The Washington Times ^ | May 4, 2009 | S. A. Miller

Posted on 05/04/2009 11:52:40 AM PDT by jazusamo

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1 posted on 05/04/2009 11:52:40 AM PDT by jazusamo
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The few smart Dems are scared to death that if the U.S. is victim of another major terrorist attack after Obama disarms our security apparatus their cushy gov’t jobs will be in serious jeopardy.


2 posted on 05/04/2009 11:56:20 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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The Pubs pressured for the sensible thing. But if it were I, I would be tempted to vote for the funding, leaving Obama no excuse when he ends up with egg on his face at the end of the year.


3 posted on 05/04/2009 11:56:42 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: jazusamo

Oshama having to ditch one campaign promise after another.


4 posted on 05/04/2009 11:57:55 AM PDT by what's up
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Yes, Zer0 forgot there’s others in government besides the president.


5 posted on 05/04/2009 12:02:14 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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Gotta love it, playing politics with our safety.

We should move the detainess right smack dab in the middle of the Dems districts. Let’s see how they vote then.


6 posted on 05/04/2009 12:03:25 PM PDT by cups
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NIMBY syndrome democrats is probably a big part of it.


7 posted on 05/04/2009 12:04:53 PM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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This is one of the few cases where Obama has not doubled down on a stupid error and allowed it to become enshrined in policy rather than admitting a mistake.

Of course, the Donks are going to have to pretend that they are keeping Gitmo open due to forces beyond their control. But at least they are doing the right thing.


8 posted on 05/04/2009 12:05:42 PM PDT by gridlock (L'Etat, c'est Barack...)
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Just say no is a great strategy, it’s the ONLY strategy. Somebody has to do it.


9 posted on 05/04/2009 12:07:51 PM PDT by ichabod1 (I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet (GOP Poet))
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To: jazusamo

Ya know, President Bush always had a laundry list of things he wanted too and never go through.


10 posted on 05/04/2009 12:07:56 PM PDT by edcoil (Taxes only help an evil government)
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How come the “just say NO” agenda was perfectly fine for the Rats when our President was George W. Bush? I am pleased that some Rats are beginning to see the light that Obama just maybe doesn’t have all the smarts that the liberal media confers on him.


11 posted on 05/04/2009 12:08:04 PM PDT by Maryhere (Maryhere ("HE comes to rule the earth"))
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This just represents “that man’s” realization he better not close that prison. Course, now that a brutha is in charge, they’ll stop torturing and persecuting the prisoners.


12 posted on 05/04/2009 12:08:48 PM PDT by ichabod1 (I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet (GOP Poet))
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Mr.President, what will be your next decision pertaining to Gitmo, it's closing, and the relocation of some 255 terror suspects being held there in light of this refusal of funding by the house? TOTUSNATER It was justuuuhh , ummmm, uhhh something that we need to still look at,.... uhhh ummm, if we don't find a viable solution, uuuhh umm You like pie? Anybody here like pie?
13 posted on 05/04/2009 12:10:36 PM PDT by SouthernmostFreeper (For Sale:Birth Certificates by Adobe... cheap, email if interested.)
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Guantanamo Bay is not going to be shut down. Guantanamo Bay was never going to be shut down. This is an invention of the running dog lackeys of the radical right wing greedmongers.


14 posted on 05/04/2009 12:10:56 PM PDT by ichabod1 (I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet (GOP Poet))
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This country is going to need those few “smart democrats” to keep this country from going to a really bad place in a hand basket.


15 posted on 05/04/2009 12:12:00 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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Yes. Now, if Congress continues to withhold funding, Obama wins anyway. Why? “I tried to close Gitmo - just like I promised - and end the torture, BUT CONGRESS WOULDN’T LET ME.”

Wasn’t the Executive Order closing Gitmo pretty wishy-washy to begin with?

Just more government games if you ask me.


16 posted on 05/04/2009 12:14:22 PM PDT by Yooper4Life (47% voted against him, and millions stayed home.)
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I find it less than believable republicans had any influence on this at all. They were only mentioned to make it sound ‘bipartisan’. Some dems are smart enough to understand what a cluster bomb shutting down gitmo would be. Frankly, despite all the rhetoric, I believe a majority of dems feel gitmo is a good thing. The real issue is Bush Derangement Syndrome.


17 posted on 05/04/2009 12:19:57 PM PDT by 556x45
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Obama never intended to actually close Gitmo in 1 year. He announced it to appease the left wing kook fringe.

Obama and the Democrats don’t need a single Republican vote to pass this or anything else. They own it all now.


18 posted on 05/04/2009 12:20:19 PM PDT by hugorand
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We should move the detainess right smack dab in the middle of the Dems districts

No prisons in the U.S. can house them or will take them. No foreign countries want them. So Obama can house them all in the White House. Plenty of space to divide some of those rooms up into single quarters for prisoners. Lots of police and secret service people around already. And...on Obama and his wife's date night, they can have dinner with the terrorists and talk peace while they share imported steaks (although, perhaps, sans the steak knives, LOL).

19 posted on 05/04/2009 12:24:05 PM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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Yes. Now, if Congress continues to withhold funding, Obama wins anyway. Why? “I tried to close Gitmo - just like I promised - and end the torture, BUT CONGRESS WOULDN’T LET ME.”

What's he gonna say when we get hit again? If we get hit he will pay the same as if he had closed it. IF we get hit.

20 posted on 05/04/2009 12:24:12 PM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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