i m not sure he actually said that. my point it was something more implicated than the holy crap briefing which is the question of what to do with these people was a matter of politics. it s a matter of democracy. found out no support. very hard to figure out where you would put these people in the united states because you have to have the consent of states to allow those people to be housed in their states. without that consent you have a huge counundrum. if you re going to keep it, keep it nice. nobody knows what we are talking about. read the story. just fight over themselves, even though nothing to fight about. the u.s. is considering 150 million dollar overhaul of the guantanamo bay facility. the plans include a new hospital, guard barracks and dining hall. lawyers for the detainees unrest is growing and hunger strikes
if this works the local base is a cheap date. if they want to raise taxes on the rich he had a democratic congress for two years he could have. if he wanted to close get employee get gitmo he could have done it. the president of the united states proposing a nonserious economic package which shows how timid he is, or determined he is to sock it to the rich. i hope they do something serious about the president who is not coming through. he is not supposed to just be saying things but doing things. bret: don t ask, don t tell has been a long time coming. but on the other two issues here are things the president said and testimony on capitol hill from his administration on the other two issues. the last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of a recession.
have you seen evidence we are safer or that recruits have fallen off as a result of the president s announcement of his intent to close guantanamo? i have not seen from, again, my perspective from the task force and more limited perspective in my current role anything specifically in response to your question that there is a change if recruiting based on the current government policy. belt brett one deals with gitmo and the first one on taxes, a different tone. there is no political will to close gitmo. as for the change at economy, he tried to reach out and compromise to win the middle and he didn t and now he is going left, and whether he knows he will not get results if he does not win the middle with this, there will be unhappy democrats and sort of satisfied democrats.
department spent $65 a person for lunch and $32 a person for snacks. speaking of spending our neighbors to the north are raising eyebrows over their government s decision to pay a managements consulting firm almost $90,000 a day. a day. for advice on how to save money. the press in canada reports they were awarded a $20 million to advise the federal cabinet and senior officials in canada how to balance the books by 2014. the treasury board is defending the expense saying ottawa needs the best advise available for reducing costs. this country s top law enforcements official told european officials he will close the guantanamo bay facility. that could be easier said than done. the administration s failure to close guantanamo bay we
stone magazine he keeps, quote, a checklist of the promises i made in the campaign. and grading himself, halfway through the first term and we ve probably accomplished 70% of the things that we said we were going to do. with no access to his personal list, cnn focused on some key promises to determine whether they had been kept or broken. immigration reform we have to solve it. candidate obama was swept in to office in part with the support of the latino groups banking on his immigration reform pledge. nothing yet. in an intimate outdoor discussion, he blamed the republicans. i can t get any of them to cooperate. i don t have 60 democrat grs ine senate. closing the guantanamo bay facility. reversing the don t ask don t tell. and allowing import of prescription drugs. but there are promises kept.