Is there another way to get it out of there? I am not paying .25% of my money to them when I do not care how long it takes to get where I want it to go.
You could wait until the network congestion dies down. It might be a while, but fees will likely drop considerably in the coming days and weeks. That's usually what happens.
And as mentioned, you can transfer between Coinbase and GDAX for free if you are verified (or willing to verify).
There are no withdrawal fees on GDAX. One way around this is to use GDAX, which is Coinbase's exchange and liquidity provider. They don't charge fees for Bitcoin withdrawals. So you can transfer BTC to your GDAX account for free and then withdraw from there.
Note:
GDAX requires ID documents from all customers. So if you aren't verified on Coinbase and want to keep it that way, you can't do this.
I understand what everyone is saying here, but when I look at the transaction on the block chain, how come there are so many transactions at once but the fee shown paid is less than 2 times what I paid for one transaction?
That's just the outgoing transaction batch. There are a lot of internal transactions that Coinbase must perform that you aren't seeing. People send them thousands and thousands of small inputs, which they have to consolidate on-chain. They are compensating for that by charging you more for withdrawal fees. This is the same thing that BitPay is doing with their 0.0006+ BTC network fee tacked on.