The Scapegoat has landed

No one has talked about closing Guantanamo Bay prison lately.

To refresh your memory. Back early this year - The Annointed One promised to close Club Gitmo by the end of the year. This was strictly a political decision. It was not rooted in any rational set of facts. The White House (Obama) had zero idea of how to actually do it. There was no thought of the real world implications of such a decision. Like - what the hell will we do with all the terrorists housed there?

Obama hoped, since the world loved him so, that other countries would take the bad guys. Ok - we palmed a few off - but our 'allies' around the world said 'nope'. We can't bring them here - because to do so would impart all kinds of criminal rights on what are actually enemy combatants. Plus, the congress refused to give Obama the money to do it if it meant bringing the terrorists here.

So, what to do? I know - let's find a scapegoat to blame the failure on. The narrative will be 'we really wanted to do this. But, the guy we gave the job to screwed it up soo badly, that we are going to miss the deadline.

According to this article, we have identified the scapegoat. Please meet Greg Craig. He is the soon-to-be-ex Chief White House lawyer for Obama.

The White House is getting ready to lay the whole mess at Craig's feet. He will be the excuse for the failure.

This, of course is a deep, stinking, gaseous pile of BS.

The root cause - the stunningly naive decision to announce a date certain to close Gitmo with ZERO idea as to how to do it.

Now, yet another American is sacrifice at the alter of the Annointed One's hubris.