Jihadist Without a Country: Dems Defund Obama’s Relocation Plan
Well, it looks like the moving plans of the Gitmo prisoners have been put on hold for awhile. At least until a weasel vote can be held in the dead of night.
Better unpack those Quarans post-haste.
The same House Democrats who have been screaming about all of the “torture” and “human rights violations” that have been alleged (and have been never proven) at Gitmo and have been caterwauling like a constipated Rosie O’Donnell about closing the facility for years, now have denied the funds that Obama had requested in order to shutdown the facility and relocate the detainees.
From AP via BreitBart.com:
WASHINGTON (AP) – Amid complaints that terror suspects could be brought to the U.S., House Democrats on Monday rebuffed the Obama administration’s request for $50 million to relocate prisoners from the detention facility at Guantanamo, Cuba.
When lawmakers unveiled a bill to pay for military and diplomatic efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan through the fall, the money to implement President Barack Obama’s executive order to shut down the prison within a year was missing from it. However, money could be transferred later—without a politically challenging vote—if it were needed to move the detainees.
The bill, which was released to key lawmakers, registers about $11 billion more than Obama’s $83.4 billion request, reflecting additional money for procurement of cargo plans, armored combat vehicles, helicopters and other items.
Funding for foreign aid accounts would be increased to about $10 billion, said a House aide briefed on the bill, including money to combat AIDS.
Last week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told lawmakers that the $50 million request for relocating the detainees was simply a “plug in the budget” that was just “a hedge that would allow us to get started if some construction is needed to be able to accommodate those detainees.”
The Pentagon has not said how many of the 240 or so detainees would be transferred to the United States or where they would be held. Gates has estimated that 50 to 100 detainees would be shipped to this country.
While the Jihad Allied Van Lines money was not procured, a few other things were, including more pork for CorruptoCrat John Murtha:
Democrats have heeded Obama’s demand to keep the bill free of domestic add-ons, though lawmakers such as Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., and Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., succeeded in swelling spending for military and foreign aid accounts.
Murtha had hoped to used the bill to advance $8 billion to $9 billion in extras for the military, such as Stryker armored combat vehicles and C-17 cargo planes.
But pressure from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other party leaders forced Murtha to cut from 15 to eight the number of C-17 planes from The Boeing Co. Eight of the planes would cost of $2.2 billion. Boeing was unsuccessful in winning new F-18 fighters.
How heroic of Speaker Botox to reduce the number of C-17 planes. Did that money go instead to her district or maybe to her non-unionized, illegal-alien winery? The Tootsie Pop Owl would like to know.
The modern-day conservative movement has lost one of it’s founders.
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