Harry Reid Does It Again
Harry Reid: the spineless and powerless majority leader of the senate:
REID: Change course on what?
QUESTION: On funding the closing of Guantanamo Bay.
REID: Well, the decision to close Guantanamo was a right one.
I agree with President Bush. I agree with John McCain . I agree with Barack Obama . Guantanamo makes us less save.
However, this is neither the time nor the bill to deal with this. Democrats under no circumstances will move forward without a comprehensive, responsible plan from the president. We will never allow terrorists to be released into the United States….
“QUESTION: If the United States — if the United States thinks that these people should be held, why shouldn’t they be held in the United States? Why shouldn’t the U.S. take those risks, the attendant risk of holding them, since it’s the one that says they should be held?
REID: I think there’s a general feeling, as I’ve already said, that the American people, and certainly the Senate, overwhelmingly doesn’t want terrorists to be released in the United States. And I think we’re going to stick with that.
QUESTION: What about in imprisoned in the United States?
REID: If you’re…
(CROSSTALK)
REID: If people are — if terrorists are released in the United States, part of what we don’t want is them be put in prisons in the United States. We don’t want them around the United States.”
That’s right: the Democrats are cowering before the defeated minority republican party, which has helpfully suggested that terrorists can’t be safely incarcerated in Supermax prisons, just like terrorists Eric Rudolph, Tim McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and Sheik Omar Abdul-Rahman.
And so they have decided to keep the Guantanamo detainees in legal limbo by refusing to pony up the $8 million needed to close the hellhole for good. this of course includes the large population of detainees who are wholly innocent of any kind of wrongdoing. Harry is scared of Republicans because he is likely to lose to one quite soon, Republicans are scared of everything and so Harry, of who clammyc writes accurately:
He is ineffective in pushing the President’s programs. He is ineffective as a leader of his party in the Senate. He is ineffective in getting any movement on items that the House easily passed (and while it is tougher in the Senate, an ever growing majority to levels not seen in decades gives him little to no excuse). He repeats republican talking points. He is the biggest roadblock to so many things that progressives hold dear as he controls the Senate agenda.
…is now scared of terrorists too because he thinks he’ll win some points with Republican voters. Such bravery. Such principles. Such guts. Give ‘em hell Harry!
Oh, and when you look at your scrotum, which apparently hangs from a hook on the wall of Mitch McConnell’s office, try to remember if it ever had balls in it to begin with.
I am greatly looking forward to your defeat. GREATLY.
