More heads exploding in the GOP.
Obama releases Gitmo detainees, setting up fight with GOPPresident Obama has opened a new front in his hard line against the incoming Republican Congress by releasing more detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, against lawmakers' objections.
The Pentagon announced Thursday that four al Qaeda fighters from Yemen, including a senior figure who facilitated travel to Afghanistan for Arab extremists, and a Tunisian extremist would be transferred to Slovakia and Georgia.
The transfers leave 143 detainees at Guantanamo, which Obama has vowed to close. Republican lawmakers, who have been pressing the administration to stop releasing detainees amid reports that some former prisoners had joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, were furious.
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"What the Obama administration is doing is dangerous and, frankly, reckless. They have chosen many times to put politics above national security. It’s time they stop playing with fire and start doing what’s right. Until we can assure the terrorists stay off the battlefield, they must stay behind bars," the California Republican said.
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Obama looks to close Guantanamo through executive action
President Obama is exploring executive action to close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a move that would stoke an even larger fight with congressional Republicans over the scope of his presidential powers.
Obama is mulling options for bringing Guantanamo detainees to U.S. soil, despite a congressional ban of such a practice, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Obama’s inability to close the prison facility in Cuba is arguably his greatest unmet promise since taking office in 2008.
However, with Obama also set to announce executive action on immigration reform after the November midterm elections, the move to shutter Gitmo could give Republicans ammunition to suggest he is overstepping his constitutional authority.
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Least we forget who blocked the Presidents failure to close Gitmo. Yes I know, everyone blames Obama, you need to know some facts.
Funds to Close Guantánamo Denied
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The vote, which complicates Mr. Obama’s efforts to shutter the prison by his deadline of Jan. 22, 2010, was 90 to 6. Republicans voted unanimously in favor of cutting the money.
The six Democrats who voted against the measure include some of their party’s most prominent voices on military affairs and criminal justice issues. Among them were Senators Carl Levin of Michigan, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee; Jack Reed of Rhode Island, a West Point graduate and former Army Ranger, and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
Senators Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the majority whip; Tom Harkin of Iowa and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island were the others voting against the measure.
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There is a lot more to read out on the intertubes as to why Gitmo wasn't closed, and it sure as hell was not Obama that failed to close it.
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Ya made me laugh, thanks. He sure does have them out numbered one man, one brain far more intelligent than the 400!
The GOP assholes forget (since all they seem to do is vacation, get drunk and sing Glory in the hallways) that Obama has had to get used to going it alone. He should have full support from Congress, but we know that won't happen not even in these last two years.
So we screamed about it, and finally the POTUS is doing something about it. Nobody else was going to free the people held without charges or evidence. Congress has made it apparent that no matter what happens, they are not about to do any hard work.
Congress failed and the only adult in charge had to handle it. Again.
Obama Calls Lindsey Graham's 'Impeachment' Bluff on Gitmo
On June 4, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) warned that President Barack Obama could face "impeachment" if he continued to release terror detainees from the military prison facility at Guantánamo Bay without Congress's explicit approval. On Thursday, however--the same day that the president announced his unilateral executive amnesty--Obama released five more terror detainees from Guantánamo, including four Al Qaeda fighters.
At the time, Graham told The Hill: “It’s going to be impossible for them to flow prisoners out of Gitmo now without a huge backlash....There will be people on our side calling for his impeachment if he did that.”
The context was the trade of five senior Taliban leaders for American Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl--a release in violation of the National Defense Authorization Act's requirement that Congress receive 30 days' notice.
Though it falls to the House to draft and consider articles of impeachment, Graham is considered one of the more senior members of the Senate caucus on foreign affairs and national security. He has yet to criticize the President's latest Guantánamo release, however.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/21/Gitmo-Obama-Calls-Lindsey-Graham-s-Impeachment-Bluff
Fuck the GOP, Cha~
May it continue until the next Democratic President in 2016. 
