TPM has a transcript of today's presser.

As you've probably noticed, I'm really not interested in the Larry Craig deal, and don't want to comment on it or Senator McConnell's role in it, beyond to say that Kentucky Republicans have really handled themselves dishonorably. What business is it of Ron Lewis or Geoff Davis how the Senate handles Larry Craig?

Luckily, I guess, McConnell's press conference had other garbage, so I'm not left with nothing to write.

He continues to demagogue the Guantanamo Bay issue, praising the House for "opposing moving terrorists onto U.S. soil," and confidently predicting that "Congress would disapprove of any effort to mainstream these terrorists into the U.S. -- onto U.S. soil and into the U.S. justice system."

As far as I know, the only "plans" that would entail moving Guantanamo detainees to US soil would incarcerate them in a detention center on a military base. No one has ever suggested tossing them into county jails or letting them roam around on furlough.

McConnell just doesn't want to close Guantanamo Bay, despite the fact that Secretary Gates, Colin Powell, and Condi Rice think the facility hurts our national prestige too much to be allowed to remain open. Even President Bush says that he wants to close the facility. But McConnell apparently doesn't, and he thinks demagoguing the relocation issue is an effective strategy for delaying the reckoning.