So let's get this straight. The Senate doesn't want to close Gitmo.
The Senate seems to think that if the Gitmo detainees are tried and convicted and put into, say, American supermax facilities, the terrorists could get out, and get a plane, and maybe load it with plutonium laced with virus and fly it into Disney World while you are there with your kids and you will all die from horrible AIDS radiation cancers, causing the senators to lose votes.
Gitmo detainees could do this, of course, because they are (gulp) well, they just uh could because they are (gulp) terrorists with secret jihad powers learned in the Middle East, and no matter how secure a supermax facility is, such as the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) at Florence, Colorado, where they keep all the baddest most evil mass-murdering convicts on the face of the planet, including Aryan Brotherhood brass who if they ever got out would destroy all human life on earth, still--these are Islamic Terrorists and they could whip out one of those weird woodwind instruments they use to charm snakes and start playing their weird A-rab music and the guards will start to sway back and forth and say "Allah" and unlock the 23-hour-lockdown cells, and then under the horrible hypnotic sway of the raghead music the guards will lead the terrorists up, up, up, past the five thousand motion detectors, forty thousand cameras, 1,400 remote-controlled steel doors, pressure pads, interlocking fields of laser beams, and expanding concentric series of 12-foot razor wire fences patrolled by guards, attack dogs, and snipers--all of which will be disabled by that time because hey, this guy playing that oboe-thingie wails, man--to freedom, the waiting helicopters of Al Qaeda, and immediate martyrdom in the WMD attack on Chicago that will follow within a day. And the Democrats are damned if anybody will ever blame that on THEM.
Of course it's possible that all of this is really the fantasies of weak little men and women whose spinal curvature has been bent into a permanent hairpin by years of kneeling before the Mouth Breathing Infant King George W. Bush and listening to too much FOX News, but don't you dare suggest that to the United States Senate. They will get SO MAD they will just--just--just make a scene.