The "Chicken" Hawks Of The GOP

Why does the conservative Right have such a fear about detaining prisoners in America?

The context of all of this is what to do with 250 detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The United States detained 425,000 Axis Powers prisoners of war, many of them Nazis. Gitmo holds about 250 guys, who can be locked up pretty easily.

The one thing America is good at, it's prison. Have you ever seen the 10-12 hours of "Lock-Up" on MSNBC on the weekends? Crazy gang members with shivs killing each other.

So why this:

GOP Rep Pete Hoekstra, at a press conference today announcing the GOP's new "Keep Terrorists Out Of America Act," which is designed to restrict the housing of Guantanamo detainees on American soil.

Cuban cigars are not OK, but Cuban soil is OK for torture.

These "big on defense" Republicans squawk like chickens when it comes to locking down a few al Qaeda prisoners.

They give new meaning to the term "chicken hawk."

Source: Washington Monthly