Posted on 05/23/2010 1:02:58 PM PDT by FTJM
Comedy gold from “Meet the Press,” polished off by DNC Chair Tim Kaine grudgingly admitting that it might be time for the White House to come clean. If you need your memory jogged about this, I don’t blame you: Sestak first dropped the bombshell that the White House tried to bribe him out of the primary against Specter more than three months ago. A month after that, pieces were already appearing about how absurd Gibbs’s stonewalling had become; two months later, he’s still stonewalling, refusing this morning to tell Bob Schieffer anything about it except that nothing “inappropriate” happened. Which is probably true: Handing Sestak a briefcase full of money to get out of the race would be indictment-worthy, but handing him the same cash in the form of a paycheck plus the prestige that comes with the title of Secretary of the Navy is just good ol’ horse-trading. No wonder “Washington” is a curse word.
Back when this story first broke, I thought Specter would stand a better chance against Toomey than Sestak would, reasoning that in a Republican year a more centrist Democrat would fare better than a liberal. That was a miscalculation — Specter’s naked opportunism and entrenched incumbency probably would have left him a sitting duck — but evidently the White House’s political team miscalculated the same way, which is … surprising. I realize that they promised Specter they’d campaign for him, but to be so committed to him as to try to buy Sestak off seems bizarre in hindsight. It could be, I suppose, that they feared that a contentious primary would hurt their chances in the general regardless of who won, but that would be a miscalculation too. What kind of shop is Axelrod running over there?
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I imagine some jaws dropped in the Obama administration when Sestak admitted that in February. All they could think of was damage control and tell Sestak to shut up. :)
....same guy pledges unyielding support for the regime
Hell, I’m just stunned that a democrat actually told the TRUTH!!
Yawn.
Nothing will happen to Obozo. The MSM has no interest in the story.
It would be great if lame duck Specter investigates it...
If Republicans take back the House, and/or Senate, they can investigate it. I’d love to see an Independent Counsel appointed.... and broaden the investigation into Blago.
if the pubbies control anything i doubt they have the guts to finger anyone about any shenanigans or illegalities.
No balls.
Bent over with no balls....
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