President Obama Never Fails To Disappoint

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

89. WOW! You sure know a LOT about the Constitution

That whole "allocating money" thing is just a teensy bit important because without the funding to transfer the detainees or the funding to try them as civilians in federal court, the President is pretty much stuck. Without funding approval, he can't even try them in military tribunals if Congress doesn't authorize it -- and then there's the still-sticky problem of where to house those who have been convicted. And, you know, how to pay for it.

The only alternative would be to simply release about 150 suspected terrorists into the wild -- and unless we're just going to walk them through the gates and into Cuba, even THAT would require funding authorization. It's not like Obama can just go out on Travelocity and start buying one-way airline tickets.

And I say again, the House wasn't voting to build a new prison. The prison already already exists - here's a picture of it, for crying out loud:



And the vote by the Senate was a Military Appropriations Bill -- a bill where the funding had already been stripped out in the House version.