It's a Boehner

[DainBramaged]

"I don't know that there's a terrorist treated better anywhere in the world than what has happened at Guantanamo. It is - we have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a facility that has more comforts than a lot of Americans get."



http://crooksandliars.com/node/25438


That jaw-dropping assessment was standard fare from the mouthpieces of the right after the 2005 Qahtani revelations. Vice President Cheney announced, "I think people there are being treated far better than they expected to be treated by any other government on Earth." Just how well was explained by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA):

"The inmates in Guantanamo have never eaten better, they've never been treated better...the idea that we are somehow torturing people in Guantanamo is absolutely not true, unless you consider eating chicken three days a week is torture."

While Hunter was distributing menus from Guantanamo to reporters as proof, his Florida colleague Mel Martinez worried the U.S. detention facility had "become an icon for bad stories and at some point you wonder the cost-benefit ratio." Still, as Fox News reported:

Martinez has said, however, that prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are treated better there than those in Florida's Orange County jail.

The prison envy American inmates would experience was a point hammered home repeatedly by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. During the Republican presidential primaries in which he and Mitt Romney ("My view is we ought to double Guantanamo") battled to heap praise on Guantanamo, Huckabee declared that prisoners in his state wished they had it so good. After announcing in June 2007 that "most of our prisoners would love to be in a facility more like Guantanamo," Huckabee that December fawned over the creature comforts at Gitmo:

"The inmates there were getting a whole lot better treatment than my prisoners in Arkansas. In fact, we left saying, 'I hope our guys don't see this. They'll all want to be transferred to Guanatanmo.' If anything, it's too nice."

[waiting for hope]

1. OMG!!!!!!

Is he going to cry?



Here ya go Mr. Bonehead:

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. “How you can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives?

"How does that stimulate the economy?”

Said that to today after meeting with Prez Obama.



Judging from the less-than-dignified giggles from the press corps, it appeared the reporters on hand could think of some ways.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/01/23/boehners-take-on-the-stimulus-plan/

[waiting for hope]

8. Figures he would say something

like that - I think Boehner has a little teeny weenie problem....

[11 Bravo]

2. Then feel free to check in, ass-wipe.

They have a few extra rooms because some prisoners have died from all of that luxurious tender loving care.

[madinmaryland]

4. Hey Boehner! They have a room down there reserved for you!

MORAN!

[Tiggeroshii]

5. I watched this last night...

I had one word floating around in my head:

"fail."

[TahitiNut]

6. Yes, we DO treat many of our poorest citizens horribly. (How LOW can we set our 'standards'?)

:puke:

[leftstreet]

7. That's right up there with a Babs Bushism

[DainBramaged]

9. Yup, the Boehner was erupting prematurely