Via Hot Air, come this link to Michael Goldfarb’s source on Capitol Hill :
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.
This is a story with no evidence…and to me sound rather far fetched…I mean, the President will close military bases because he wants Senate votes? Give me a break!
Looks like obama is a muslim black monkey he needs to murder Americans as many as he can its time for real Americans to do the right thing if you know what i mean?
I’ve heard this story reported elsewhere. And it is just the kind of tactic Rahm Emmanuel is known for.
Ben Nelson’s office has denied this rumor as patently false.
YA RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and all you libbies are still in denial over that fact that Obomination is nothing but a sleazy, slimey Marxist. Just keep sniffin that glue.
“YA RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and all you libbies are still in denial over that fact that Obomination is nothing but a sleazy, slimey Marxist. Just keep sniffin that glue.” – Libbie Basher.
Well…I don’t know what else to tell you. Ben Nelson says it’s false, so if you choose to believe otherwise, then I guess Ben Nelson is a liar. Additionally, Michael Goldfarb, the source of this so-called story, has now retracted it. He was on Glenn Beck’s program yesterday and he retracted it.
Cheers.
Neither Goldfarb nor Lewis retracted anything! They stand behind the story! Your first ,mistake was watching Olbermann…at best he is good for a cry in the tub!
Olbermann is a bald-faced liar. He has been known to just make things up.
Oh, c’mon, that ‘threat’ was a lie and even Nelson repudiated it. Don’t worry, with the current health care plan, the insurance companies win big.