The Weekly Standard Reports: Source: Dems Threaten Nelson In Pursuit of 60.
Glenn Beck covered this on his show today. He claimed it fell "just short of treason." I think it IS TREASON! Add this latest treasonous, thuggish event to the list that is piling up for this bogus POTUS, his Marxist Cabinet and Thug czars!
Glenn Beck covered this on his show today. He claimed it fell "just short of treason." I think it IS TREASON! Add this latest treasonous, thuggish event to the list that is piling up for this bogus POTUS, his Marxist Cabinet and Thug czars!
While the Democrats appease Senator Lieberman, they still have to worry about other recalcitrant Democrats including Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson. Though Lieberman has been out front in the fight against the public option and the Medicare buy-in, Nelson was critical of both. Now that those provisions appear to have been stripped from the bill, Lieberman may get on board, but Nelson's demand that taxpayer money not be used to fund abortion has still not been met. 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.
Also see Citizen Wells blog.
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UPdate:
WorldNetDaily: 20 senators demand probe of health-care vote 'threat'
Did White House say it would close Air Force base if Nelson didn't play?
The twenty Senators with a backbone to question whether or not this threat happened:
Despite the denials, some WND readers have expressed outrage if a threat were indeed made.
"It is time for some spines on the Hill to impeach Obama and charge him with treason," said reader Tom Bender.
"This is simply amazing that we the people are permitting this type of politics in our country," noted another, Mike Kovach. "Not that this hasn't been done before, but this administration is on a course to destroy our nation. I am beginning to wonder why there has not been calls of subversion, treason and sedition against this administration. I'm am a Democrat and I would like to see all of those in cohorts with this administration put in jail and charged accordingly."
The Republicans signing the letter were Sens. John Ensign of Nevada, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, John Thune of South Dakota, Jim Bunning of Kentucky, Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker of Tennessee, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Kit Bond of Missouri, Michael Enzi of Wyoming, George LeMieux of Florida, Pat Roberts of Kansas, David Vitter of Louisiana, Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker of Mississipi, John Cornyn of Texas, Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, Mike Johanns of Nebraska, Bob Bennett of Utah, Johnny Isakson of Georgia and Chuck Grassley of Iowa.