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Senate Blocks Transfer of Gitmo Prisoners to U.S.A.
FOX NEWS | 5/20/2009 | staff

Posted on 05/20/2009 9:17:19 AM PDT by kellynla

Senate has voted to block transfer of Gitmo prisoners to U.S.A.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 111th; agenda; bho44; detainees; gitmo; guantanamo; senate; terrorists; terrorits
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1 posted on 05/20/2009 9:17:20 AM PDT by kellynla
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To: kellynla

Pure cover for 0be since Holder hasn’t been able to dump the majority of the Gitmo campers in Europe.


2 posted on 05/20/2009 9:19:16 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: kellynla
Dear Mr. Obama...

We, the people of the United States...

3 posted on 05/20/2009 9:23:41 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: kellynla

BTTT


4 posted on 05/20/2009 9:24:35 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Paladin2

Actually, I see it as a black eye for Obambi. He can’t close Gitmo now, and he’s going to really take a beating from the lefties. This was a vote of no confidence on the matter IMO.

The Democrats had to swallow their pride on this one. After all the damning comments by them over the last six years, they’re not willing to change things when they can.

Gotta love it!


5 posted on 05/20/2009 9:25:34 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama is mentally a child of ten. Just remember that when he makes statements and issues policy.)
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To: kellynla

I don’t know what to think. I am thinking that we should be jumping for joy that the Senators had enough sense to turn down this stupid idea but then I am angry that they even considered the idea!


6 posted on 05/20/2009 9:27:25 AM PDT by Buddygirl
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I’m with you. Joe Q. Public thinks “why did the Senate have to vote to block the transfer? Oh yeah, Obama is closing Gitmo within the year”. Now, the 0ne is going to read a teleprompter tomorrow on the subject with his “plan”. VP Cheney has a speech too—smart, gives the presstitutes a counter to put into their pap....


7 posted on 05/20/2009 9:29:37 AM PDT by eureka! (Elections have consequences, boy howdy. *sigh*)
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To: kellynla

A resounding defeat: 90-6


8 posted on 05/20/2009 9:30:42 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)
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To: eureka!

LOL, this is really going to unravel Obama’s promise.


9 posted on 05/20/2009 9:31:32 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama is mentally a child of ten. Just remember that when he makes statements and issues policy.)
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To: NautiNurse

So ... who are the six damfools?


10 posted on 05/20/2009 9:32:16 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: kellynla

Well GITMO is officially the sole problem of the Socialist Democrat Party now.


11 posted on 05/20/2009 9:32:32 AM PDT by Grunthor ("Not one penny to the National Republican Senatorial Committee.")
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A resounding defeat for Obama...


12 posted on 05/20/2009 9:34:09 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)
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To: ArrogantBustard

Roll call isn’t posted yet. Patiently waiting.


13 posted on 05/20/2009 9:34:42 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)
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To: ArrogantBustard

The ones who will get to house Obama’s “friends” come January.


14 posted on 05/20/2009 9:34:44 AM PDT by rod1
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To: ArrogantBustard

I’ll bet Keith Ellison was one.


15 posted on 05/20/2009 9:38:17 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out (click my name)
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"I’ll bet Keith Ellison was one."

Ellison is a conrgressscritter rep, this was a vote in the Senate. The extreme lefties like Chuckie Schumer would be my guess.
16 posted on 05/20/2009 9:43:51 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: kellynla

I wonder if the Senate knows the public will be furious if they bring this islamist scum to the USA? Are they thinking about the 2010 elections? I bet Hairy Reid is.


17 posted on 05/20/2009 9:49:58 AM PDT by Frantzie
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To: kellynla

One could be Feinstein. I heard some comments she made and I would think from that she would be one of the six.


18 posted on 05/20/2009 9:53:47 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: kellynla

Hugo - er, I mean, Barry - isn’t going to like this.

Once the legislature started to oppose Hugo Chavez, he focused all his attention on it and essentially was able to get it to rewrite its procedural rules, restructure itself, and, of course, with the help of a lot of cheating, get a Hugo-favorable majority. At the same time, he was restructuring the judiciary and getting rid of people there who still wanted to abide by the law and not let Hugo be a law unto himself.

We have a more established system, and while procedural rule manipulation and vote fraud can end up making things more favorable for anything Obama wants, I think he’s going to have a harder time than Hugo in getting complete control over the other branches of government. Not to say he won’t try, of course.


19 posted on 05/20/2009 9:55:24 AM PDT by livius
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To: DoughtyOne
"LOL, this is really going to unravel Obama’s promise."

Like others made, he made the promise during a campaign, on political advisor advice and based on public polls and the MSM's position. Not the facts. Now, the facts--along with the cowardly 'rats who are getting an earful from their constituents about 'terrorists in the US'-- are kicking his skinny butt. The way things work so slowly in DC and government, this promise logistically cannot be kept. It is too funny...

20 posted on 05/20/2009 9:56:25 AM PDT by eureka! (Elections have consequences, boy howdy. *sigh*)
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