After President Obama on Tuesday morning revealed his plan to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) threw it right in the trash.
A video uploaded to Twitter shows Roberts holding Obama’s proposal to close the prison used to detain terrorists.
“This is what I think of the President’s plan to send terrorists to the United States,” Roberts says in the video before crumpling the plan into a ball and throwing it into a wastebasket.
.@POTUS, this is what I think of the “plan” to close #GITMO and send terrorists to the United States. pic.twitter.com/5ceyu5I2tc
— Pat Roberts (@SenPatRoberts) February 23, 2016
Roberts has been a vocal critic of Obama’s goal to close the prison and instead house detainees in prisons on U.S. soil. When Obama administration officials traveled to Kansas to assess the military prison at Fort Leavenworth as a potential site to house Guantanamo detainees, Roberts urged Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter to keep the detainees out of Kansas.
“Fort Leavenworth is neither the ideal nor right location for moving Guantánamo detainees,” he wrote in an August letter to Carter. “The installation lies right on the Missouri River, providing terrorists with the possibility of covert travel underwater and attempting access to the detention facility.”
They don’t care about the good of the country, not one bit.
That list…
Ah, another Rhodes Scholar from Kansas!
I thought this moron was dead. Oh well, we can only hope.
You can expect this kind of behavior to continue and escalate as the election year proceeds. They think they’re in a position where they can finally just take the gloves off and openly do whatever disrespectful shit they feel like now…without pretense or any superficial veil of civility…because they’re finally almost “rid of him” and they believe the clock is so close to running out as to not really matter anymore. I say please proceed. One or more of them is going to go way too far with the gleeful disrespect and it’s going to backfire like most of their bullshit.
Where is the decorum? Once a proud staple of the high chamber, it has become nothing more than a distant memory. Even Bob Dole would be disgusted by this display of utter disrespect.