White House Hits Back Against Right-Wing Rumor-Mongering

The Three Stooges . . . still laughable.

Hannity, Beck and Limbaugh are all graduates of the Goebbels School of Mendacity, who's schools motto is:" If you tell a big enough lie and keep on repeating it, eventually people will come to believe it"

There's a ton of stuff in Connecticut that ought to be closed down too.

The process involves a BRAC (Base Closure & Realignment Commission). Nine commissioners are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate to oversee an ad hoc organization. The Department of Defense sends its recommendations for base closure, and the BRAC makes a finding on each recommendation. Even that isn't the last word, because the service can find a new reason for a base to exist and thus dodge closure, e.g., Cannon AFB in New Mexico.

The last BRAC was in 2005, and ceased to exist in 2006. These are usually supposed to coincide with a Quadrennial Defense Review, wherein the Defense Department examines its effectiveness and costs every four years. They don't come into being until Congress wills it, and there's no talk of one right now. The smart money is on the next one being convened in 2013, at the earliest.

To sum up, it is impossible for Obama to threaten anything more than appointing the nine commissioners who may decide to close Offutt AFB, if in turn the Department of Defense seeks to have it closed. The Congress would first need to convene a BRAC, and the next one will probably happen no sooner than the first year of the next presidential term.

So yes, this is pure bullshit. But you would expect no less from the people who brought us death panels and Obama's true Kenyan origins.

Have they no shame? Since it's one of the most important air bases in the world the rumor didn't even pass the smell test.

Watching this entire fiasco unfold from the Canada boggles my mind. It seems that no one..absolutely no one in the USA realizes that you are phuquing yourselves. Partisan fighting--demagoguery--outright lies from assholes like Limbaugh, Coulter, Malkin, Beck, Palin and the quintessential arsehole Sean Hannity are merely polarizing your nation.Ever here of the term divide and conquer..well you guys are doing a fine job of accomplishing that all by yourselves. I have one question about your legislative system. WAS THE PERSON THAT THOUGHT UP EARMARKS A COMPLETE ASSHOLE? No matter what is legislated and passed in Washington is basically screwed due to the consequences of the hidden earmarks....and you guys wonder aboout fiscal responsibility....AMAZING....SMARTEN UP before you screw up a nation that has contributed so much to mankind. STUDY history...the right is doing EXACTLY what the NAZIs did in the late 20s. and will likely continue and parallel the brown shirts in the next decade like the 30s in Germany. Germans had Beer Hall Putsces--your freaking tea parties are going to end up being the same thing. THE IRONY: the GOP claims it is Obama that is the NAZI....WAKE UP AMERICA !!!!!!

The so-called health care debate has now set the stage for a total collapse of the Obama agenda. The Right was down and out and continue to be led by a bunch of unelectable assholes but somehow Obama and the feeble Democrats have managed to hang themselves through weakness and inaction. The corporate-owned DINO / "moderates" have exposed themselves as just as much of an impediment to progress as the right-wingers. Absolutely PATHETIC.

Isn't it a great that our national political discussion are lead by a bipolar alcoholic, a drug addict, an professional gay-baiter, all college drop-outs?

A meme soon to appear spouted by a "serious" pundit near you.

Since there's no consequence for any Right Wing media personality or GOP Congressman for the lies they promote, they're free to say anything they want.

Also, "Al Gore's a liar".

Damn liberal media.

This country used to have an educated electorate and actual journalism. Without them, we are where we are today. I don't see any way out. America, you fucked.