{"id":411432,"date":"2010-03-10T10:51:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78863"},"modified":"2010-03-10T10:51:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:51:23","slug":"is-negotiating-with-graham-costing-obama-gtmo-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/411432","title":{"rendered":"Is Negotiating With Graham Costing Obama GTMO Votes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/78712\/graham-moves-forward-with-indefinite-detention-proposal\">continues<\/a> to make the case to the Obama administration that he can deliver the Senate votes to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay if President Obama abandons a civilian trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1970687,00.html?cnn=yes\">A new story in Time<\/a> questions whether either side has actually counted the votes for that prospective deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Democrats worry that by negotiating with Graham, the Administration is conceding defeat at the start. &#8220;It&#8217;s a self-fulfilling prophecy,&#8221; says a senior Senate Democratic aide, &#8220;because if you let it be known that you might cut a deal because you think you don&#8217;t have the votes, then you won&#8217;t have the votes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-78863\"><\/span>Time doesn&#8217;t have a hard count either, but it reports that Democratic votes for closing Guantanamo have slipped since last year. While it can&#8217;t be determined whether any Democratic votes would have been shored up by a forceful argument from the White House in favor of keeping the KSM trial in civilian court, they&#8217;re slipping away in the absence of one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) continues to make the case to the Obama administration that he can deliver the Senate votes to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay if President Obama abandons a civilian trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. A new story in Time questions whether either side has actually counted the votes for that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}