Guantanamo closure delayed again.
The White House wants to buy a maximum security prison in Illinois to hold the ‘detainees.’
The federal Bureau of Prisons does not have enough money to pay Illinois for the center, which would cost about $150 million. Several weeks ago, the White House approached the House Appropriations Committee and floated the idea of adding about $200 million for the project to the military spending bill for the 2010 fiscal year, according to administration and Congressional officials.
But Democratic leaders refused to include the politically charged measure in the legislation. When lawmakers approved the bill on Dec. 19, it contained no financing for Thomson.
The Democratic party will have nobody to blame but themselves in the mid-term elections when their supporters don’t show up at the polls due to discouragement.
