Harry Reid is mega-unpopular, with half of Nevadans saying they've had enough of him and only about a third saying they'd vote to reelect him in 2010. Nevada, despite Obama's easy win there, is still a right-leaning state. The issue of releasing Guantanamo prisoners into, you know, real prisons, is likely not very popular. And the anti- stance is one that Congressional Republicans--ostensibly the same Republicans who are of the rah-rah-tough-white-men and serious-on-terrorism cloths--have pounced on. They don't want dem Ayrabs comin' to our Amurika.
But here's the thing: Nobody gives a fuck what Republicans think. Harry Reid presides over a filibuster-proof Senate majority, and he also has a sitting President and a large House majority who could be shown the correct path on this one if there was only some actual spine shown.
But no. Harry Reid--a horrible person and an even worse senator, a babbling idiot devoid of any leadership skills, a frothing prolife Mormon who should be running a mission in Taiwan rather than the U.S. Senate--says woah, woah, wait a minute.
"QUESTION: If the United States -- if the United States thinks that these people should be held, why shouldn't they be held in the United States? Why shouldn't the U.S. take those risks, the attendant risk of holding them, since it's the one that says they should be held?
REID: I think there's a general feeling, as I've already said, that the American people, and certainly the Senate, overwhelmingly doesn't want terrorists to be released in the United States. And I think we're going to stick with that.
QUESTION: What about in imprisoned in the United States?
REID: If you're...
(CROSSTALK)
Thanks for jumping through hoops there, Har!REID: If people are -- if terrorists are released in the United States, part of what we don't want is them be put in prisons in the United States. We don't want them around the United States."
This argument has never made and will never make any sense. They are not going to be "around the United States." They are going to be behind bars. Well, some of them. Hopefully, the ones that aren't guilty of jack will be released back to their countries.
Obviously, Jerry Bruckheimer isn't a staple in the adolescence of a budding Mormon. Or else Reid would know of the Bruckheimerian Rules of Prisons:
1. It's actually really hard for people to break out of prison! Like, really hard!
2. For this reason, it's very rare that people ever break out of prison.
3. And we already house some pretty bad mo-fos in the U.S. Prison System!
3. And actually, some of our prisoners--and presumably, many of Guantanamo's prisoners--aren't so bad!
So stop acting like a blathering retard, Harry. Or at least plop your ass on a couch and watch Con Air.
