Base Closure Announcement Tied to Getting Moderate GOP Support to Defeat the Filibuster?

Stranger at Blah3 connects the dots, and makes a rather compelling argument that, perhaps, Bush timed the announcement of base closures - affecting Northeast states more than anywhere else in the country where most of the moderate GOP Capitol Hill members are based - so that he could twist arms to get the moderates to vote (against the majority of their citizens) to end the filibuster.