Even Democrats Don't Want Gitmo Prisoners in U.S.

All of Obama's promises come with expiration dates, and this one very likely will not be kept:

President Obama is facing strong backlash to his plan to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- including from members of his own party.

House Democratic leaders weighed in Wednesday with a plan that would block any release of Guantanamo detainees within the United States but that would allow them to be shipped to the U.S. to stand trial or to serve their sentences.

On Thursday, the House will debates a $96 billion emergency spending bill to wind down the war in Iraq and fund operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but the bill provides no money to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

The Rules Committee, which sets the terms of debate for nearly every piece of legislation that hits the House floor, rejected a measure by Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., that would not allow any detainees to be freed until the White House details how it would handle each detainee and assesses the impact releases could have on local communities. Wolf's plan also would give state governors the authority to say no to prisoner releases into their states.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey, D-Wis., authored the emergency spending bill and opposed Wolf's amendment.

"I don't think we should give every governor power to veto a federal decision," Obey said.

The problem with the statist form of government favored by Obama and the Dems is they don't want governors to have ANY authority. They want an unfettered right to do anything to the states they want. Of course, that's not a power given to the federal government by the Constitution, but hey, Dems don't need no stinkin' Constitution!

Meanwhile, another Bush policy will continue - holding prisoners indefinately without charges.