"I'm a Republican and I'm angry."

[jeff47]

46. That's an impressive amount of wrong crammed into a single post.

Show me where that line is in the Budget.

http://www.ibtimes.com/1-trillion-spending-bill-proposed-congress-read-entire-omnibus-spending-bill-full-text-1538380
Scroll down.

Transfers to "where they came from" is difficult, because "where they came from" does not want them back. As a result, shutting Gitmo down anytime soon is going to require transferring them to somewhere else in the US until those transfers can be negotiated.

The military budget is under the discretion of the CIC not micro managed by Congress.

Utterly false.

And you should know it's false when the DoD says "we don't want money for those airplanes" and Congress puts it in the budget anyway. And they get airplanes.

Also, if what you said was true, we need to apologize to Oliver North. That whole Iran-Contra thing wasn't illegal according to you. (What made it a crime is the line in the budget that said no US funds could be spent to aid the Contras.)

The way you tell it every time a plane takes off congress has to approve money for it...which is bullshit.

They have to approve the funding to buy the fuel for training and ongoing operations. They're lines in the DoD budget.

They don't have to approve every single flight, but they do have to approve that flights can happen at all.

We spend a million dollars a year to keep each prisoner there and you are telling us that sending them back to where they came would cost more?

No, I'm saying Congress forbade us from spending any money to close the place down any time soon. It's economically moronic, but politically expedient.

After all, you're busy screaming at Obama when Republicans in Congress forced it into the budget.