On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. > Candidate Obama knew all of those political hurdles...so why did he still promise to do it? Did he underestimate it? Or perhaps never really intend on going through with it? I guess i'm giving him a little bit more credit than that...but you could be right. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:348891 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
