Dems Begin to Notice Gitmo is Still Open
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I would certainly prefer that we kept dangerous would-be terrorists at Gitmo rather than in some state penitentiary. House Dems? Not so much.
Jennifer Bendery at Roll Call writes today:
“House Democratic leaders have been staying quiet on the issue as President Barack Obama crafts a plan to close the beleaguered facility in January. But continued delays by the administration could have consequences for vulnerable Democrats, some of whom are growing agitated as the clock keeps ticking.”
“There is some concern just politically about this,” one senior Democratic aide said. The more time that goes by without a plan from Obama, the aide said, the more likely Republicans will engage in “scaremongering” and attack Democrats for “inviting terrorists into our backyard.”
Hmmm…. that’s funny. If you think it’s a bad idea to have enemy combatants on US soil you’re engaging in “scaremongering?”
Seems like just yesterday, President Obama was saying we had to pass ObamaCare or “more people will die.”
Does that count as “scaremongering” too?
On Gitmo, The Weekly Standard’s Michael Goldfarb adds:
“I thought Democrats had a pretty clear position on Gitmo: they want it closed. Or at least they did when Bush was still president and the little problem of what to do with the detainees after it closed was his problem — not theirs.”
