By issuing threats and demands to the Americans in Nebraska, the little Kenyan sh!tstain is acting like a damn terrorist.
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!
bttt
And the horse he rode in on!
Nothing like a little arm twisting going on there.
Hmmmm...the whole point of BRAC is to prevent this kind of political extortion. Sounds like an empty threat since even if Barry and his thugs wanted to BRAC Offutt (which they won’t since it is central to our strategic forces), Congress would have to approve it.
Bears repeating
By issuing threats and demands to the Americans in Nebraska, the little Kenyan sh!tstain is acting like a damn terrorist.
A call to arms if true.
Update on this:
I just received this response to my inquiry to Ben Nelson’s office re: the truth of the matter.
“No.
Charlie Ellsworth
Office of Nebraska’s Senator Ben Nelson
phone: 202.224.6551
fax: 202.228.0012”
self ping
Even the reporter from the Weekly Standard who broke the story said that Nelson “had” to deny the threat. The reporter, “Mike,” was on Glenn Beck’s radio show and said he was 100% sure the story is TRUE.
Wow, I didn’t doubt that they would lie.
We need to take action against these traitors and vote them out.
I think he should do what you said..or just change parties and tell everyone why he did it.
Hed get re-elected forever.
We’ll just say decades and decades of very deep and incredible facilities and leave it at that. I can’t say more, but believe me it is amazing. It is much more valuable than the Pentagon or White House.
Offutt AFB is where Bush went on 9/11. There is a reason for that! He and the military can do anything from there to defend the country.
This is no ordinary facility that decays over time. This facility is constantly being upgraded because it is maintained to control the entire military and government system from this one location. It is not even remotely outdated!!!
Your general statement might be true about a majority of locations, but not Offutt. The idiot who made the threat to close Offutt AFB doesn’t have the slightest clue about the command and control of our country during time of crisis.
Check this out. Much of my cache is going on the auction block. Bids really suck, especially the .308 brass. Oh well, maybe the auction will be better. Just hoping for good weather.
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Alberta’s Child...Your argument has no merit. The BRAC was appointed by the President(Bush) and Congress. President Clinton signed the closure order. The conspiracy if there was one...was that Jim Courter the head of the commission was a former N.J Republican congressman. He asked for Plattsburgh Air Force base to be reviewed, contrary to the Air Force’s position. The AF wanted to make Plattsburgh the east coast mobility hub. Rep Courter had ambitions to run for governor of NJ. How better to impress the voters of NJ then save their base at McGuire. Who do you trust more with defense? A NJ congressman or the DOD? Also you state that fuel was an issue being barged to Plattsburgh. Your mistaken no barges were EVER stopped because of ice and Plattsburgh had an alternate means of resupply, by train. I speak from experience as was the Non Commissioned Officer in charge of Plattsburgh Fuels/POL from 1984-1995. The Air Force made the right choice, Jim Courter corrupted the process.
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