So you may have heard that Obama’s budget update is late. It was due basically like now, and it’s not going to come until mid next month, when Congress is on recess, playing on the monkey bars, unable to respond to questions about it. Convenient!
And you know what else Obama is late on? His report on how to deal with those pesky terror suspects. According to this, he had set a deadline of today to release that report, and now his aides are saying that it’s not going to come out for another six months minimum. The report is supposed to be a huge component of Obama’s plan to shut down Guantanamo Bay.
Even so, the Obama aides claim that everything is still on track to shut down in January.
Now, you guys know I’m really bad at math. But isn’t six months from now….JANUARY? Because it seems kinda overly optimistic to me for Obama to be claiming that the report about how to close Gitmo is going to be released the same month as he intends to close Gitmo.
You know what my favorite part of this article is? The fact that the White House downplayed the delay of the report by saying, “We wanted to get this right. We wanted to do this carefully.”
Yeah – I guess the same philosophy doesn’t apply to our entire health care system or $787 billion stimulus packages.
It’s all subterfuge. No one wants those prisoners in their countries, and no one wants them on their home turf…even if they had the facilities to do it. It would make no sense to build another prison or spend millions to retool a prison when they have a prison! The public doesn’t want any more excessive spending.
This is what happens when idealism is elected. Obama has made a rookie mistake and is shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic.
It’s all a big shell game, laurel.