Using His Mulligan

Among gentlemen you should only claim one Mulligan per round, but we might want to make an exception for the Bamster whose caddies seem to be choosing the wrong club for him with incessant regularity. Here's today's Mulligan:

Maybe There's a Better Place

How many ways could they have seen that coming?

Of course it should have been obvious to predict what a freak show attempting to conduct a trial of these miscreants in NYC would have been. It would have been pretty easy to crunch a few numbers on security costs before precipitously making such an absurd pronouncement. Congestion, media, demonstrations, riots, terrorist threats, nut-case wannabes seeking fifteen minutes of fame, etc. would be impossible to ignore.

Could Holder maybe have done a little ringie-dingie of the Mayor to ask how he felt about that? Might they have run it past the vocal senior senator and the place-holding newbie from the state to get their input?

The defendents are incarcerated very securely in the facility at Guantanamo. What would it cost to conduct the trial there rather than in downtown Manhattan? Peanuts in comparison.

So, what will be the fall-back? There are a lot of courthouses throughout the heartland that aren't dying for this opportunity. There are a lot of communities that don't want or need this carnival in their back yard. There are a lot of folks who don't want a bulls-eye painted on their town.

This was a decision driven by misguided ideology and a reckless disregard for security of the nation. It shouldn't have been made in the first place.

Now we shall see what the fall-back position is going to be and there can be little doubt that it isn't going to get any better soon.