There is that too. There was a prison here in IL that is sitting empty and republicans led a campaign against it. That would have added about 100 to the small community in rural IL and would have made a big difference there.
-----Original Message----- From: Judah McAuley [mailto:ju...@wiredotter.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 3:09 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Limbaugh is voice of GOP majority? Obama started the process of looking for options on where to move the prisoners in the federal judicial system. The hue and cry raised by members of Congress was so close to universal that they realized that there is no way in hell that they would be allowed to do it. Bills were being drafted disallowing it and it would have set up a big fight on separation of powers between Congress and the Executive that Obama didn't want to have. So, in the end, he gave in to political expediency. No knew "secret" information. Just politics. He, presumably, figured that save his political capital for battles where he stood a better chance of winning. He's probably right on the political side of things, I'm almost certain he is, but I would have preferred to see him attempt to do the right thing even if he lost in the process. Judah On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 1:00 PM, GMoney <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> I have to agree with you there. It was one of the reasons I was >> tempted to make the comparison in the last administration. I realize >> that there was significant (stupid) opposition to closing it but if >> Obama can institute martial law by decree, I'm not quite sure why he >> can't just say you know what this is the right thing to do and we're doing it. > > > he easily could, and I think he would LOVE to do just that...since, > you know, he promised to do it. > > So why didn't he? I can think of only one logical reason that makes sense: > President Obama became privy to information that Candidate Obama was > not privy too, that convinced him, same as Bush before him, that > simply closing Gitmo would present a clear and present danger to the country. > > Now we can scream that this is wrong and not the American way....and > well....we'd be right. But if my assumption is right, then we've had > two completely different presidents from two different parties come to > the same conclusion re: Gitmo. Which is compelling. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348894 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
