Republicans have already settled on a five-letter messaging counter-attack to President Obama’s plan to shutter the Guantanamo Bay prison within a year: NIMBY. Within the past few days, John McCain and Karl Rove have helped reinforce the perception that Guantanamo detainees could not be moved to U.S. soil without a popular backlash.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=146698