Monday, September 28, 2009
I love it when a plan comes together
I watched an interesting story tonight on the News Hour on PBS on what is going on with the terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay. It seems that since 2002 over 800 detainees have been sent to Gitmo and the Bush administration had the population down to 243 when Obama took office. Then Obama said that he would close the prison there with in 1 year. Well here we are Nine months later and the Obama administration has released 17 people from Gitmo. It seems that Evil George Bush was much better at getting prisoners out of Gitmo than Obama is. And now Robert Gibbs is saying that the White House is no longer focused on meeting the January deadline.
So here we are, back to the typical Democrat philosophy, it does not matter if you get results, all that matters is that you say that you will. How you feel about an issue is more important than how you deal with an issue.
No surprise to me or many people that did not vote for Obama, only the people that did vote for him will be surprised when his January deadline comes and goes and does not even make the news.
Kind of like the deadline he gave for cabinet members to cut $100 million from the Federal Budget within 90 days. While that is a pittance in the big picture of Federal Spending it was still something he got his face on TV to brag about being fiscally responsible. Well when the 90 days came up and Gibbs was asked about it, he first had to be reminded what the reporter was talking about, then he answered that it was 100 days not 90 even though there are dozens of news stories from April 20th that say it was 90 days. Well a week or so later they came back and said they had found savings because they were going to do things like use online magazine subscriptions instead of hard copies and jam more soldiers into charter planes. I guess that would save a little money. It would be nice to see a follow up story if they really did any of these things. Because we all know trimming off $100 million while you are adding $3 trillion to the budget is really going to help things out.
So here we are, back to the typical Democrat philosophy, it does not matter if you get results, all that matters is that you say that you will. How you feel about an issue is more important than how you deal with an issue.
No surprise to me or many people that did not vote for Obama, only the people that did vote for him will be surprised when his January deadline comes and goes and does not even make the news.
Kind of like the deadline he gave for cabinet members to cut $100 million from the Federal Budget within 90 days. While that is a pittance in the big picture of Federal Spending it was still something he got his face on TV to brag about being fiscally responsible. Well when the 90 days came up and Gibbs was asked about it, he first had to be reminded what the reporter was talking about, then he answered that it was 100 days not 90 even though there are dozens of news stories from April 20th that say it was 90 days. Well a week or so later they came back and said they had found savings because they were going to do things like use online magazine subscriptions instead of hard copies and jam more soldiers into charter planes. I guess that would save a little money. It would be nice to see a follow up story if they really did any of these things. Because we all know trimming off $100 million while you are adding $3 trillion to the budget is really going to help things out.
Labels: Gitmo, Obama, politics
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