Dems where trying to figure out a way to bring Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson over to their side and lock him in for their health-care coup d’etat of the American political system.
Twenty senators – all Republicans – on December 16, 2009; showed signs of getting their Klingon on. Or to use the old 20th century saying: develope a spine. These proto-Klingons sent a letter to the Seneate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin. Democrat from Michian and the committee’s top Republican Senator John McCain, Republican from Arizona.
World Net Daily article by Joe Kovacs printed the text of that letter in his article and its reprinted here as well.
It has been reported that the Obama Administration threatened the closure of a U.S. military installation for political purposes, thereby bringing into question the integrity of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process. The BRAC process was established to remove political influence so that the decision to close or not to close a military installation could be based upon military utility.
Specifically, various media reports have stated that the Obama Administration would put Offutt AFB in southeastern Nebraska on a future BRAC list because of a vote on healthcare reform. While we recognize the importance of Offutt AFB as the headquarters of U.S. Strategic Command and the approximately 10,000 individuals that work there, we feel that this installation should remain open or be closed on its own merits.
Therefore, we respectfully ask that a hearing be held as to whether the BRAC process has been compromised. We do not want to see the name of a base from our state on a BRAC list and think it has been put there to settle partisan scores. We also do not want our bases to be more vulnerable to closure because political arm-twisting has taken another installation off the table. National security not partisanship should determine how BRAC decisions are made.
This supposed threat from the White House to Senator Nelson was uncovered by Weekly Standard columnist Michael Goldfarb. That threat is to put Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base on the BRAC list if Nelson doesn’t play ball with the other Health-care kool-aid drinkers.
Since this story broke, both the White House and Senator Ben Nelson are denying such a threat was ever given.
Here are the proto-Republican/Klingons that Joe Kovacs article: 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.
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Ref. WND, December 17, 2009. “20 senators demand probe of health-care vote ‘threat’ (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119239).
