Boner: Right thing for the wrong reason

[unhappycamper]

Boehner: Guantanamo could be deal breaker on Afghan funds
By David Lightman and William Douglas | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Thursday, December 17, 2009

WASHINGTON — House Republican Leader John Boehner warned on Thursday that he wouldn't back emergency funding for President Barack Obama's Afghanistan troop surge if the White House request includes money to transfer Guantanamo detainees to the U.S.

"I am not going to support a bill that — that facilitates bringing Gitmo prisoners to the United States," he told a news conference, using a popular shorthand for the military prison.

The White House on Tuesday said it plans to move some war on terror detainees held in prison camps at Guantanamo, in southeast Cuba, to a maximum-security prison in northern Illinois.

The White House did not respond to requests for comment late Thursday. But there was no indication whether the Obama administration would join together its requests for funding 30,000 to 35,000 additional U.S. troops in Afghanistan and moving Guantanamo detainees to Illinois.

Boehner's warning came a day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke out about funding for Obama's most important foreign policy initiative, a plan expected to elicit a White House request for $30 billion to $40 billion.


Rest of article at: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/80870.html

[Bitwit1234]

1. HE's not going to support a bill.

Who in the hell do these members of congress think they are. Will somebody get it thru their heads...THEY WERE ELECTED TO DO THE ""PEOPLE'S""" BUSINESS. Not to do what they want. Most of the people especially those in Illinois where the prisoners are going to be sent, want this transfer. Who is HE to say they can't have it. If we didn't have a majority wins, he wouldn't be in his seat in the house. So he better get it thru his head, he is supposed to do what the majority wants.

In fact it would be a good fact for all members of congress to remember what they were elected to do.

[liberal N proud]

2. When republicans are not supporting funds for a war, you know they

are pure obstructionist.


OH! the hypocrisy!