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House GOP defense bill blocks Guantanamo closing
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NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)To be able to go from just abusing the down-trodden majority of the American population to finding an even more severally abused group AND FUCKING THEM HARDER.
Your mothers must be so proud.
EC
(12,287 posts)With it's cost you'd think the repubs would be all for relocating all whose left there. But they are such chickens they think our super prisons can't handle it. I don't get it, what is it they gain by keeping this open?
existentialist
(2,190 posts)unfortunately, that's quite a few.
EC
(12,287 posts)That's pretty steep.
after all, that helps them to maintain their talking points on the deficit too, which is closing fast enough to undermine much Republican rhetoric.
EC
(12,287 posts)that riles up their base? That they are chicken of some broken down men? They are afraid of them? Or they are tough because they can keep people in a prison on an island they don't own forever? They think that's power? What is it that the wingnuts get off on with this?
lark
(23,160 posts)They don't want their little pet stupidities to be removed from legislation.
Every day in every way, they make me want to
The CCC
(463 posts)Since Republicans love GITMO so much, the President should immediately start by sending Won'ter and boner there.
Peaceful Protester
(280 posts)When Darrell Issa (R-CA) took over, he said he had a long list of things he wanted to investigate.
Did Republicans using Gitmo as a Constitutional loophole for human rights abuses ever make it to that list?
Also, as House Republicans look for ways to cut spending, they are looking high and low for money to offset spending: Hurricane Sandy Aid, Tornado Disaster Relief, etc.
While they're looking for spending cuts, why don't they see it costs nearly $975,000 more to house a single detainee in Gitmo, than here, in America?
1) Why isn't using Gitmo as a Constitutional loophole scandalous?
a) Because Republicans approved it; therefore, they own it?
b) Because of the can of worms it would open for Republicans?
2) Why isn't simply spending enormous sums on Gitmo not scandalous enough for Issa's list?
3) Why is a Republican push to increase, rather than cut, spending at Gitmo not scandalous?
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jjewell
(618 posts)Benghazi !!!
Cha
(297,733 posts)who are stopping the closing of Gitmo.
Peaceful Protester
(280 posts)House Republicans have sought to balance the budget with offset spending for everything including natural disasters like: Hurricane Sandy Aid, Tornado Disaster Relief, etc.
Since Republicans are suddenly so concerned with being spend thrifts, where's the House Republican's plan to offset the taxpayer money they're spending on their list of investigations?
Darrell Issa (R-CA) said he had a list of things he wanted to investigate before he even took office, did he also have a list of things to cut in order to offset spending millions of taxpayer dollars on this list of things he wanted to investigate?
Since nothing is getting done without offset spending, why have House Republican's gotten away with wasting tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, by repeatedly voting, in a futile attempt, to repeal the Affordable Healthcare Act?
Better yet, while House Republicans are consumed with spending offsets and sniffing out scandals, where's the House Republican's plan to offset the billions of taxpayer dollars being spent on Gitmo?
Since Gitmo was first conceived by Republicans as a Constitutional loophole for human rights abuses, shouldn't it fall upon House Republicans, to find an offset?
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underpants
(182,914 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,569 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)at the fundraiser.
Skraxx
(2,984 posts)BULLY PULPIT!!
Yup.