Julian E. Zelizer
Special to CNN
With his appointment of Sonia Sotomayor and a fiery speech in Nevada, President Obama bought himself a little breathing space with congressional Democrats after taking a big political hit from them last week.
The debate over closing the Guantanamo prison intensified when congressional Democrats refused to provide the administration with the funds needed to conduct the transfer.
Democrats were frustrated that Obama, who had announced the closure as one of the first pieces of business for his administration, had failed to provide his own party's leaders with the details of the plan.
When conservatives warned that detainees would be sent to American prisons from where they could potentially spread terrorism in the heartland, congressional Democrats were vulnerable, left without enough information to mount a defense.
| Lampe |
May 28th, 2009 10:15 am ET Are the Tax-Payers paying for Obama to go out and campaign for other Democrats? If so why? Shouldn't the one who is being campaigned for pay for this trip, or is it Okay to spend my money, any way they want, because it's Obama and The dems doing it? |
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| VITA ZEMAITIS |
May 28th, 2009 10:15 am ET Amanpour's report yesterday on North Korea was very good. Even small countries have to be taken seriously because of their nuclear arsenal. Too bad communist government misleads the people with false propaganda and wastes all their money on nuclear missiles. It's good N.Korea is far from U.S., but what can Russia, China and South Korea do to stop all this military profileration? |
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| Melissa |
May 28th, 2009 10:55 am ET Fine with me. Everyone else is doing it. Its part of politics. |
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| Janice M. Stotler |
May 28th, 2009 4:28 pm ET I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHEN NEWT GINGRICH WAS RE-ELECTED??!! WHAT GIVES HIM THE RIGHT FOR THE MEDIA TO BE GIVING HIM SO MUCH "PRESS"?? ALSO, STOP GIVING CHENEY AIR TIME!! MEDIA WAKE UP, PLEASE!! |
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