I remember when that was being floated...an awful lot of NIMBY popped up: Bleeding heart: "Give these poor people a fair trial.......just uh...in some other state, please."
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Eric Roberts < [email protected]> wrote: > > 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:[email protected]] > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Dana <[email protected]> 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:348896 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
