06-05-2014, 08:56 AM
(06-05-2014, 06:36 AM)Duchess Wrote:
I've tried to find out where these detainees will be going but I can't get a definitive answer. No one wants them in our country & I understand that.
I've been reading a little about this trade. Are any of you aware that many of the very same people who are outraged by it are the same people who encouraged it until it actually went down? I've always been aware that politicians are disingenuous but seeing it in black & white still holds the power to astound me. Lying liars.
It is all a political game by the GOP. Obama is used to it. And has learned to play it well.
A Trick Play to Close Guantánamo Bay
May 23, 2014 2:50 pm
The closing of the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay — promised by President Obama in 2008, prevented by Congress ever since — may still be far off, but on Thursday a bipartisan Senate committee laid out a pathway that could make it happen.
The idea is based on one of those reverse twists that lawmakers sometimes use when an unpopular action needs to take place — one they want to permit without taking direct responsibility. For example, when the debt ceiling needs to be raised, Congress has at times given the president the authority to do so, and then passed a measure voting down the increase. At that point, the president plays his part by vetoing the measure, knowing Congress won’t be able to form a supermajority to override him. Voters are gulled into believing their representative protested the increase, while the country averts a ruinous default.
The prison proposal would follow similar lines.