The Hypocritic Oath

Obviously, that is what most Repubs swear when they take office these days.  If Obama says the sky is blue, they will say it is red.  Two months ago, the most famous POW in congress, John McCain told Charlie Rose he would approve a prisoner swap to get our last POW out of Afghanistan.  So the President negotiated a swap and now McCain says it was a terrible idea.  The only thing he would probably approve would be Obama's resignation, followed by the delayed acknowledgement of his own election to the presidency.  The rest of the GOP quickly walked back any approval of the Bergdahl exchange.  They either scrubbed any congratulatory messages from their websites or twitter accounts or changed them to second guessing of the president.   As pointed out by several legal experts,  most of the Taliban prisoners at Gitmo would have to be released when the US withdraws from Afghanistan anyway, so their release could not have been delayed much longer.  It is like a sports team trading a potential free agent in the last year of his contract.  Better to get something for him than nothing at the end.