Obama Threatening To Close Offut Air Force Base if Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson Doesn’t Fall in Line on Health Care
Weekly Standard
While the Democrats appease Senator Lieberman, they still have to worry about other recalcitrant Democrats including Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson. 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.
From Obama this 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.
Wild Thing’s comment……….
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! SHEESH!
There is NOTHING Obama will not stoop to. Damn! Now that’s some serious political hardball. Toying around with the lives of military families and national security just to get a horrible bill passed.
Nelson better vote against these thugs or the thugs will own him forever along with everyone else. What are they so afraid of. BO has alot more to be afraid of if the congressmen he is trying to bribe stand up to him and tell the press what’s going on.
The bastard in the Whitehouse just gave the Republicans a Christmas present, they had better use it. I’ve had MORE than enough of this Obama.
Hannity was talking about it yesterday. And I heard Rush speak about their tactics the other day.
I just wonder what’s all behind this? Or who? This is more than just politics.
Odd. Very odd.
Eddy
You don’t go closing STRATCOM! I know, I live about 5 miles from Offutt. Those kids are our ears to the world. But Obama would like nothing better than to blame someone else for his bad choice of closing it when we get attacked again. But even if Nelson votes no, they still have enough steam to pass it just in time to give every American a big old lump of coal for Christmas!
This ‘Health Care’ bill is all about CONTROL it has nothing to do with porviding health care. As it stands now there are still 25 million people Uninsured.
The only way they can pass this is if Susan Collins goes over to the other side. They need a 60 vote majority. That was the cloture vote 2 weeks ago.
So if the Republicans remain adamant and Nelson refuses to vote with his demos the bill is dead.
It takes more than Obama and his minions to close a military instillation. A whole series of things has to take place, including a BRAC Commission. By time all that took place hopefully Conservative Republicans will be controlling both houses of Congress. Unfortunately, Joe Citizen doesn’t know that and would exert extreme pressure on Nelson to cave into Obama. Al Capone would be proud of his legacy in Washington.
Proof this bastard has finally abdicated his first requirement as POTUS: National Security. Time for legal action to dismiss him of his duties. In the real world we would NEVER put up with such shenanigans or tyranny, from ANYONE!!!
Chicago politics in action. Can you imagine the hue and cry if GW Bush had pulled a stunt like this. obama and his gang have the media on their side so they can get by with this type of behavior.
I just got back from my second day this week outside of ben’s office here in Omaha.
I have been outside his office with the 9-12’ers and the Minuteman Patriots every week since this past summer. I used to show up with sign and a lawn chair and ice water, now I am there with full winter gear and HOT coffee as yesterday we were there in -12 windchill temps, it was a little warmer today but still cold enough.
He will do his little “trick” as always to…
What he does is votes FOR cloture when they have the votes in hand knowing that he can then later vote AGAINST the bill itself when they only need the 51 votes for passage that way he can come back to Ne and tell us “bumpkins” that he voted AGAINST it and that we should vote for him again.
WELL NO MORE we are wise to his lying and he will be out next election if the protests outside his office is any indicator at all!!!!!!
Mr. Obama is TREASON 24/7/365, and America´s #1 THREAT FROM WITHIN.
Impeach Obama
Never in my 65 years have I felt so sad for the younger American citizens.
Over the last twenty years or so the liberal institutions have formidably re-written most of our history, have you all forgotten that Stalinist Russia, did this very thing to undermine the intellectual thinkers of his time, and those that did not survive the thumb screws, were sent to the Siberian work camps never to return.
We do not know just where we will be sent just yet, but Ram noted in a address the other day that many of us are undesirables, and do not deserve the freedoms of free voting, and constitutional rights, directing remarks to those that appose the newly consecrated political leader, “After all he won along with the liberal units, and they have the right to change the face of America, or do they?
The President has shown us all over and above board tactics of complete sophomoric actions, or are they?
If you follow any anti-government theories, then this would fit in as well.
Overwhelm the government with social programs designed to bankrupt the treasury, make promises to all the non-tax paying voters, they want the gov hand outs, and further the social system, bring the war prisoners to New York under the guise of American Constitutional rights for all, and let the Constitution fail and you have a new cry for a re-write; do not mistake anything that comes out of the DC area.
Mr. Bastard Obama is not stupid he just may think most of us are.
If he really wanted to bring us all together, then why won’t he release his true certificate of birth, why does he give solace and assistance to extreme leftists in his so-called advisory panels, whats the real agenda behind the Health Care Crisis, other than Emanuel’s comments “not to let a good crisis go unused”, Taxes, hell just don’t pay, let the IRS go after the majority of the citizens, stand up for your rights, elect only those that have truly represented you, and don’t believe any more lies, dis-information is contagious.
A liberal tried to get under my skin and said to me, “… and I suppose you think Obama is the anti-Christ?” I responded quickly, “NO, because the anti-Christ won’t be reading off a teleprompter!”
The barber shop roared as Darth Vader shoots and scored!
Senator Nelson needs to step forward and put this information out there for all to see or as you way those thugs in the White House will own his butt; lock, stock and barrel. Comeon Ben grow a pair.
The pot calling the kettle black. Compared to the corrupt Osama Obama administration the Karzai Afghan administration is a piker. Obama must go.
cwp1944, where have we been ? We have been here daily battling it out trying to make sense of all of this and usually finding answers that we don’t much like.
My question to you, where have you been ? You are not the only one who reached his golden years there are a few of us here and the condescention is unappreciated.
You ask what health care is all about. It is about installing a system of control, ( that is why obama don’t care what’s in it as long as he has the basic policy to start with in reshaping America. Obama says the constitution offers only negative rights that’s where he is coming from) of the people, with this Health Care, they have created 111, one hundred and eleven brand new Bureaucracies all to better control our every move. Health Care is secondary to this agenda. You won’t be able to move without violating some Health care tenant. This will be the first time the government has ever mandated the American People buy from the government. That is unconstitutional.
With the new debt of almost 14 Trillion dollars, a deficit almost 1.5 trillion and a current budget way over 3 Trillion dollars, the country is in bad shape. But when you consider the unfunded Liabilities which add up to an astronomical sum of 106 Trillion dollars, this white house has mortgaged the future of our great grand children. The interest on the debt alone NOW is 350 Billion dollars to date.
And with the new debt ceiling of 1.8 Trillion this will push the National debt higher.
So cwp1944, what don’t we get.
mtg1945
Glenn Beck is further covering Obama´s treasonous threat to close Offutt AFB today at FNC, as well as, an interview of Michael Goldfarb, at the Weekly Standard.
Eddy, yes there is more behind this, but it
is mainly one thing, total control over the
population of this country. They don’t care
if people want it or not. They know they can
lie and say it is what people want but they
even know that is a total lie.
Lynn, Ditto that, there is no way they can
just decide to do something like this and
get away with it.
Just that fact that Obama would even threaten
to do it though it such a total outrage it
really shows how low he would go to get his way
or try to.
Mark, it sure is, absolute control.
BobF., I agree, you are right.
“It takes more than Obama and his minions to close a military instillation”
But it sure shows how horrid he is to the
core of his being to even think of such a
thing.
Jan, Amen to that, in the world we have
known this kind of thing, these threats
would never exist.
Tom, exactly, it sure makes a difference
to have a media that is silent when
Obama does and says these kinds of things
and threats.
Richard, thank you so much for all you do.
Thank you too for sharing about what is
happening and about Nelson.
Anon, I would love to see him impeached and
and be forced to leave the office in total
shame.
Darth, LOL GREAT reply to the person
that asked you that.
Ron, I agree the needs to stay strong.
Bob A., your right I sure pray he does
go and gets the heck out asap.
Mark, thank you so much.
Anon, thank you so much for that about
Glenn Beck.