Posted on 12/15/2009 3:06:37 PM PST by American Dream 246
Quite an explosive leak! I wonder how this will affect things? It is certainly a thuggish and dangerous thing for Obama to play with National Security over this craptacular idea of socialized medicine. Quite a desperate move.
According to a Senate aide, the White House is now threatening to put Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base on the BRAC list if Nelson doesn’t fall into line. Offutt Air Force Base employs some 10,000 military and federal employees in Southeastern Nebraska. As our source put it, this is a “naked effort by Rahm Emanuel and the White House to extort Nelson’s vote.” They are “threatening to close a base vital to national security for what?” asked the Senate staffer.
Indeed, Offutt is the headquarters for US Strategic Command, the successor to Strategic Air Command, and not by accident. STRATCOM was located in the middle of the country for strategic reasons. Its closure would be a massive blow to the economy of the state of Nebraska, but it would also be another example of this administration playing politics with our national security.
So much for the idea of Obama trying to save jobs and improve the economy!
Without Nelson’s vote, since all Republicans are still in line to oppose this, Reid is still left with 59 votes. So, some arm twisting is taking place. Nelson doesn’t want this bill to fund abortions so he is now being threatened, and national security along with him. How shameful this would be if Democrats felt shame.
Ed Morrissey:
The Obama administration has little left to use for leverage. Why not national security? After all, if we’re going to bring terrorists into Illinois, what does it matter if we put the US Strategic Command on wheels for a few years?
What a nightmare!
Hope Hannity gets Lt. Col. Allen West’s opinion on this tonight when he interviews him.
why can’t nebraska threaten to secede from the union if obamacare is passed?
ping
Hannity is leading with this right now
How can the odious author DARE to value a little thing like national security over the nees of Il Douche /s.
Nice base you got there. Shame if something should happen to it.
I hope this news goes explosively viral, and puts the bastard demoRATs & 0bozo the commie pig on the defensive for playing any sort of games or threats to pass his socialist health care debacle. We are seeing first hand what type of bastard traitors the demoRATs are. We desperately need American Revolution II to throw out the socialists, especially 0bozo the commie pig, and throw them all into prison for high crimes & treason against the U.S.
Rush talked about this today, how frightening, we must destroy these people in 2010, or before!
Obama’s Replacement Senator, Burris, is the guy to watch....Big time Chicago Payoff is pending to BUY his Vote.
Burris needs replacement $$$s for his purchase from Blagojavich.
My God this nightmare has got top stop... one way or another. AND it must stop NOW!
Impeach Obama or trigger this:
From the Declaration of Independence “ That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
— That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”.
If this is true, the only thing Nelson needs to do is make it public. Bambi will be hanged, drawn and quartered in no time.
2010 will be too late.
Closing SAC headquarters would deprive the TOTUS of such a wonderful photo op.
The list, ping
My, my....such integrity.
It would be the best Christmas present ever!
He's a FReeper and in the Air Force. ;0)
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