Heh….when the tough decisions of the Nation come to the desks of Democrats, well, just don’t ask them.

“WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama‘s allies in the Senate will not provide funds to close the Guantanamo Bay prison until the administration comes up with a satisfactory plan for transferring the detainees there, a top Democrat said Tuesday.

Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said Obama’s plan to close Guantanamo is not dead — only that the funding will have to wait until the administration devises an acceptable plan to handle the closure and transfer the detainees. Obama has promised to close the military prison by January.

“The administration has not come up with a plan at this point,” said Durbin, who is the whip, or No. 2 Democrat in the Senate. He added that Democrats are likely to address the issue on later legislation. “I think Guantanamo should be closed and we have to wait for the president’s direction on what happens to the detainees.”

Well you knew that once it was determined that no State wanted to let detainees be housed there and their own foreign nations don’t want them, Democrats weren’t about to close down Gitmo.  Not and have the repercussions blamed on them.  That’s the only reason they pushed for Bush to do it so that they could blame him for any problems that arose.