Courtesy of The Washington Post:
As Congress awaits the administration’s plans to close Guantanamo Bay, Democrats are suggesting it might not be a bad thing if President Obama shutters the facility unilaterally.
While Democratic leaders are being careful not to implore Obama directly to cut Congress out of his decision-making process, they are giving the president ample political cover to use executive authority to shutter the controversial detention facility.
“This president, time and again, has said that he wants to do everything in his power to close Guantanamo before he leaves. The Republicans in congress continue to do everything in their power to stop it,” said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the Senate’s second-ranking Democrat, on Tuesday. “I think there reaches a point where Congress is just being stubborn. They are just opposing everything he suggests, and he has to make decisions in the best interests of the country, and I think closing Guantanamo is one of them.”
So here let me answer my own question in the headline. Yes!
It is beyond obvious that the Republicans are NEVER going to agree to close Gitmo and give Obama yet another victory, so if he wants to keep one of his biggest campaign promises he has no choice but to go it alone.
Anybody of a differing opinion?
Should President Obama use his executive authority to close Guantanamo Bay?
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