Democrats Will Not Fund Gitmo Closing

  House Democrats will be voting shortly on a new war funding bill. When they do vote on the bill there will be one interesting portion of the bill that will be missing.

  There was to be $80 million allocated to the prisoner relocation plan as part of the president’s plan to close GITMO. House Democrats have nixed that portion of the bill. There will be no funding to relocate the GITMO detainees in the upcoming war funding bill.

  I am still of the belief that GITMO is not going to close. I feel that the executive order the president signed which ordered the prison closed was nothing but a PR move to satisfy the far left and make it appear that he was fulfilling a campaign promise. If it was not a PR move and he  signed the order without thinking through what was to happen to the detainees than that was extremely irresponsible and shortsighted.

  We are now in the position where nobody knows where these prisoners are going  to be released and there is talk that many of them will be released in the United States. No politician in their right mind who faces re-election next year would ever vote to fund relocating terrorists on United States soil.

  This funding was dead before it even had a chance. This is a blow to the administration and the president’s plan to close GITMO. Perhaps the president should have thought this through before he rashly decided to try to follow through on a promise that I don’t think he is going to be able to keep.