Closing up shop
The Democratic Senator of Minnesota, Mike Dayton, has closed up his Senate office.
Time for the Conspiracy Theorists to put this in light with the Paul Wellstone death. As likely to be a Clinton Cabal Murder as it is a Bush Cabal Murder… Wellstone being, in the end, separate from the Democratic Party to a certain extent in principled voting habits, and the man who replaced him on the ballot, Walter Mondale, being a Council on Foreign Relations member who would’ve not created any waves and would’ve toed the New World Order line.
Or something like that.
The greater puzzle for the Conspiracy Theorists is: What does Dayton know that we don’t? and What is the message that this is sending?, perhaps trying to telegraph to the public at large.
Saw some Democratic Minnesota blogger say that this is making him a laughingstock, and cementing him as a one-term Senator.
And saw someone else say that the Senator is essentially calling their bluff on terror warnings.
“There’s no new threat or information pertaining to a threat that’s come in. We continue to advise (people) to take caution … but there’s no new information that we’ve put out,” said Sgt. Contricia Ford of the U.S. Capitol Police.
Brian Roehrkasse, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, added: “We have not made a recommendation for any members of Congress to close their offices, and we do not have any specific threat reporting indicating that Washington, D.C., and the Capitol is a target.”
But Dayton told reporters in Minneapolis that Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, recently briefed lawmakers on a “top-secret intelligence report on our national security.”
“I would not bring my two sons to Capitol Hill between now and the elections,” he said.
Dayton issued a statement earlier in the day, announcing that he was closing his Washington office until after the election.
“I do so out of extreme, but necessary, precaution to protect the lives and safety of my Senate staff and my Minnesota constituents, who might otherwise visit my office in the next few weeks. I feel compelled to do so, because I will not be here in Washington to share in what I consider to be an unacceptably greater risk to their safety.”
Recall right after 9/11, the House closed up shop due to a threat of Anthrax and the Senate kept on going. Or it was vice versa, I don’t remember. The NY Post, or some similar rag, ran the headline “COWARDS”.
The reality is it was a prudent decision, and the nation is not going to self-destruct because a chamber of Congress shuts down for a brief duration.
Or, right after 9/11… when Tom Daschle (or was it Dan Rather, or was it both?), Tom Brokaw, and the National Inquirer received Anthrax in the mail…
The name of National Inquirer’s umbrella company… “American Media”.
So, you attack the supposed leader of the supposed Liberal party, a face or two of the supposed Liberal Media, and the “American Media”?
Then again, it’s possible that you just hit the man who a quick google or whatever search shows as the leader of the high chamber of Congress, whoever and whatever his specific domestic politics are pretty moot, and you were attacking… in a broad sense… the “American Media”.
That story has fallen into the ether.
Anyways…