Posted on 06/01/2010 5:43:51 AM PDT by randita
Joe to Joe
By The Prowler on 6.1.10 @ 6:09AM
MISSING IN ACTION Some Democrats on Capitol Hill were caught off guard by the White House announcement on Friday that placed former President Bill Clinton and Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel at the center of the Rep. Joe Sestak job bribery scandal.
"We expected at the end of the day that somehow Joe Biden would be involved," says one Democrat leadership source. "He was much more involved in the Specter recruitment and had more invested in getting Specter what he wanted."
Indeed, Specter and several senior advisers, according to Democrat Senate sources, went several times to Biden and his staff complaining about Sestak and the fact that the field had not been cleared for Specter as the "new Democrat" had hoped. Specter advisers say that their candidate spoke several times with frustration to Biden after the switch about Sestak's candidacy.
While Specter was not promised a clear field, Democrats did work to accomplish just that. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell acolyte and former National Constitution Center head Joe Torsella was the only Democrat in the primary at the time of Specter's switch in late April 2009, and Rendell persuaded him to drop out rather quickly from the race. After that, Rendell made it known that he was working behind the scenes to cut off Sestak's in-state fundraising resources from major donors to the party.
"Sestak and the White House are now saying that the conversation was brief and Sestak is a bit unclear on the offer now," says one Republican Senate leadership aide. "We think there is more to this than what is out there, and the White House explanation, if you look at it, simply doesn't make sense.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Biden - the gift that just keeps on giving.
So much for Sestak and honor.
Although he was Delaware’s Senator for 36 years, in 2008, you would have thought he spent his entire life in Scranton, PA.
He deserves everything he has coming. One of the most hypocriticsal liberals ever to inhabit the planet.
Democrats are corrupt, communists, hate America and are the enemies of freedom.
Any questions?
Sestak isn’t a Popular Keyword today. Are we moving on??
Stupid question probably, but how can you see that information?
I hope Slow Joe wasn’t involved. If both he and Obama are impeached and convicted, Nancy Pelosi becomes president. That would be a nightmare.
Nice. [/s]
So far, though, in what I've been able to glean, the ONLY action in this whole matter that can actually be put into the *politics as usual* category. This thing stinks to high heaven ... and it's only a matter of time before Sestak proves he is the weakest link in the chain.
True. Republican speaker. Need more coffee!
Too bad those pesky VOTERS decided who would be their candidate, not the party kingmakers....
Someone should be starting a betting pool on how many times Biden and friends can change their stories. (Clearly, I assume more than once by using the plural.)
Why am I dubious?
What makes you think that a little ol’ thing like impeachment will make either one of those two leave office?
What did Joe know and when did he know it?
Why am I dubious?
Hmm ... perhaps because Sestak was contradicting the *official story* just a few short hours after it was put out??
(I guess the lawyer-brother didn't quite get the details straight in that phone call ...)
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