Posted on 12/15/2009 4:07:05 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!
Both built on highway 370 between 25th and 48th street.
Indeed. Gosh, I hit the link not knowing what to expect. I saw the e-tombstones. Thank you for reminding me of that. My deepest respect for all the fallen heroes.
Yes. Things are getting more interestinger... :)
Good deal!
It’s a little late for the aide’s denial.
The word is out all over TALK RADIO...lol.
If Ben caves, he’s going to look real bad.
That’s kind of what I was expecting, I bet they make a lot of trips to the Offut AFB.
Right after nelson’s ammendment was voted down, you know, the one where he said if it didn’t pass he would vote no? He came out in less than 5 minutes and said well, (no doesn’t really mean no,) we’ll see what’s in the final bill...
He will vote for this and knows he will get something for his vote. NEVER trust a politician. Theirs OR ours. They ain’t reliable...EVER!
If I were Nelson I would start kicking ass and taking numbers.
Isn’t this called “blackmail”??? Isn’t that against the law???
If I committed something like this on a smaller scale, I’d be put in jail.
At the very least it is a violation of the Separation of Powers...but I guess no one cares about the Constitution either.
Odongo is one nasty smelling POS....
Yeah, I know. They all need to be in jail.
Closed for Extermination, Fumigation and then Renovations.
He made a solemn promise to the unborn and it was THAT amendment that was voted down!
Unfortunately and sadly, I believe that you are correct. If any of the so-called "moderate" demoRATs (barf) were adamently opposed to this socialist health care debacle, they never would have voted for it to be brought to the floor and debated. It is a sham & a scam by the libturd "moderates". We need to every bastard demoRAT out of office and replace them with patriotic conservative Americans. Likewise throw out the RINO's as well.
I agree, this is one sick sob and the same as any home grown terrorist.
So much for promises. What about the future enslavement of the children who are already here? These people have no conscience.
I don’t know what they care about, but it sure isn’t this country.
I’ll tell you precisely what they care about. POWER. They aim to control our very lives.
Nelson INVITED this. He knows they will pay almost anything for his vote. At this point, it’s hard to know who is blackmailing whom. Freaking crooks and liars. Every damn one of them...INCLUDING st. joe.
Then I STRONGLY urge them to catch up on their reading!
Precisely:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — 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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
I think it would be a good idea. Take the house next year and remove his pet programs to balance the budget and pay for health care. Hell, who knows I may be in one of the projects if this guy keeps going on.
Bingo. I think we may be missing the Alinsky principles here. Ala "Make them live up to their own rules". What if we switched tactics and demand that those in favor of this horrible bill "get something for the folks"?
I mean like why should Mary in LA get pork and we go without? Why should recalcitrant senators be the only ones to bring home bacon. Should not loyal dems be rewarded over the straying ones? I have to think about this,but havoc seems within reach.
Obama shows his inner thug.
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