From Bob Cesca to Bill Maher

I doubt Bill Maher will ever read what I write. After all, I'm a pleb, and he's a starfucker celebrity talking head. But earlier this year, in October, to be exact, Bill Maher told a blatant lie about the President. He said that President Obama lied about closing Guantanamo Bay, and no one on his discussion panel corrected his error.

But then, these days, the Professional Left rule the airways. They can get away with everything from racism to sedition and then hide behind the comic's mask.

Today, for the fourth time, Congress voted in favour of continuing detention at Guantanamo Bay. Get that? Congress. Congress, not the President; because the President does not legislate; and it's a perfidious piece of deliberate misinformation when the likes of noted pundits or fundits or asshats or whatever you want to call them, continuously seek to apportion blame to the President of the United States, at the same time giving Congress a bye.

Please. Buy a book of Civics and read about how our government operates.

In the meantime, Bob Cesca, in my opinion, the best political blogger in the business, has brilliantly and simplistically delineated exactly what happened in the vote to continue this heinous institution.

I would like to offer this for Bill to read, considering it's not difficult to comprehend. I would also like to see Bob Cesca sitting on one of Bill's discussion panels, but I doubt he'll be asked - he'd be too likely to call out Bill's bullshit.

Please read and cogitate for future reference:-

For the fourth time since President Obama took office, congress voted in favor of continuing indefinite detention yesterday, and a by-product of that will be the continued operation of the prison located at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

WASHINGTON — The polarized US Senate on Tuesday beat back an attempt to set aside proposed rules on detention of terrorism suspects, defying a White House veto threat and criticisms from the FBI and the Pentagon.

By a 37-61 margin, senators defeated an attempt to strip the proposed regulations from a vast annual spending bill that has yet to pass but is seen as a sure thing because it affects US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I’m beginning to feel like a broken record, but it needs to be repeated.

President Obama signed an executive order the day he took office to close Guantanamo. Since then, Congress has voted no less than four times to continue policies that keep Guantanamo open. Congress has voted unanimously against civilian trials for detainees, voted against funding the closure of Guantanamo, and voted for indefinite detention.

In this case, President Obama has issued a threat to veto the legislation, but because it is attached to an overall omnibus defense bill, it’s difficult to veto without adversely effecting servicemen and women deployed around the world who have nothing to do with the antics of congress. An obviously cynical congressional ploy.

The idea that President Obama lied about closing Guantanamo Bay irritates me more than possibly any other political meme out there, because saying that means you are willfully overlooking and excusing the actions of congress.

Presidents do not rule by fiat.

If you cannot be bothered to read the whole thing, just reading the last line will suffice. The emphasis is my own, because that's really the whole gist of the article.