Housing Detainees

Rachel Maddow says scary music frightened Democrats away from closing Guantanamo.

But Hardin, Montana, isn't afraid.

Rachel Maddow's segment shows Harry Reid saying that the American people have clearly stated they don't want terrorists released in the US. When a reporter says that we're not talking about releasing them, we're talking about imprisoning them here, Reid says, "You can't imprison them without releasing them." What???

Maddow also showed a clip of Diane Feinstein talking up the safety of California's "correctional" facilities in an effort to convince her colleagues that we can easily and effectively house Gitmo detainees in the US, and then voting to strip the funding to close Gitmo!

I think we should fund a study to find out what's in the air in the capitol building.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

P.S. I heard James Inhoffe (R-OK) on the radio yesterday saying that it only costs $4,000 a year for us to maintain the prison at Guantanamo, so that's a bargain. Why are people permitted to get away with that kind of nonsense? (Actually, we are paying that much a month (cheap!) just to rent the land, and that says nothing of the actual cost of maintaining the prison. But that $4,000 a year figure seems to be a popular idea. And by the way, Cuba hasn't cashed those rent checks. Apparently they cashed one by mistake, so maybe that's why Inhoffe claims it only costs us $4,000 a year. Ha. If that's his angle, he's still wrong. It would be only a few dollars, considering $4,000 spread out over all the years we've had the land. I suspect he's just another idiot repeating something he heard or saw and never bothered to think about. And/or he's counting on the fact that a lot of the idiots hearing him won't think about it. At any rate, the actual yearly cost of maintaining Gitmo is about $100 million - a far, far cry from $4,000.)

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. --Mark Twain