The Weekly Standard is reporting on a bombshell of a story, and this has apparently been confirmed by multiple other sources and reported by Glenn Beck (who broke the Van Jones scandal). If true, this is an outrageous display of Chicago-style dirty politics by our lying, conniving, arm-twisting, pompous president.

The story, as told by Michael Goldfarb on Weekly Standard is this:

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.

This clip from two weeks ago recently caught my attention and I think it’s absolutely amazing how Glenn Beck and John Bolton so clearly verbalize so much of what was wrong with Obama’s recent speech to the UN. Watching this video, you can’t help but see through the veneer and recognize the radical departure from the U.S.-Israel relationship status quo (not to mention from reality).

Once again, I couldn’t help but laugh out loud hysterically at Glenn Beck’s commentary last night. Here he is talking about the Nissan “Leaf”, a new electric car in the works (fast forward to the 3:36 mark to get straight to the Leaf story):

I was literally laughing out loud at my television last night when I was watching this. Glenn Beck is absolutely hilarious! Enjoy!