ObamaCare the reason Gitmo facility still open?

Could it be that ObamaCare is the reason the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay is still open? Closing the Gitmo jail was a key campaign promise of the Cult of Change:

From the Washington Post:

The president answered questions about his Guantanamo policy when asked, but only once in two years, other than in a major speech at the National Archives, did he raise the issue on his own. Guantanamo was competing with other legislative priorities, particularly health care, that consumed most of the administration's attention.

"During 2009 and early 2010, he is totally engaged in the struggle to get health-care reform," a White House participant said when asked about the president's engagement with the effort to close Guantanamo. “That occupies his mind, and his time.:

Obama has conceded that Guantanamo will not close anytime soon. “Obviously I haven’t been able to make the case right now, and without Congress’s cooperation, we can't do it," he said this month in an interview with the Associated Press. "That doesn't mean I stop making the case."

It's no longer "Bush's fault" with Obama, it's now ObamaCare's faul.

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