What in the hell is it going to take to get our Democratic establishment to get that their Republican opponents are utterly bankrupt, morally and politically, and do not have to be fucking appeased?
Look at what the geniuses have come up with now:
Washington -- A bill by Senate Democrats would fund the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but it would block the transfer of any of the detainees to the United States....
...Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) on Wednesday circulated an approximately $91.5-billion measure that includes $50 million to shutter the Guantanamo facility and move its prisoners -- with the proviso that they can't be sent to the United States. The Senate bill appears to favor paying foreign governments to accept the prisoners.
This is just about the stupidest stupid they could come up with. If the United States knows how to do anything, it knows how to incarcerate people. We've got well over two million people locked up now who can attest to that. And, yeah, we can incarcerate the real worst of the worst. We've even got a town in Montana that is volunteering to take the Guantanamo detainees.
But beyond the incredible insult to the intelligence of the American people, who really aren't afraid of being slaughtered in their beds if Guantanamo detainees end up being imprisoned in the high security prisons in their cities or states, there's the incredible, and really depressing, spectacle of congressional Dems cowering again in the face of Republican fearmongering. It's only adding insult to the injury that they can't even manage to get Obama's nominees approved.
Seriously, Sen. Inouye and any other Democrat who thinks this might be a good idea: Wake up! Your opponents are among the most hated public figures in the country. You don't have to listen to them any more, and you certainly don't have to appease them.