Posted on 03/02/2010 7:21:22 AM PST by Shellybenoit
Last Week Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak made an astounding prediction. The White House offered a plum job in the administration if he would only drop his primary battle against now Democrat, former Republican, former Democrat, Arlen Specter.
Both Fox News and the Philadelphia Enquirer spoke to unnamed White House officials, who insisted on “anonymity,” but had denied the congressman’s claim. Sestak, meanwhile, has repeatedly stood by his assertion that the administration offered him a job in exchange for not running against Specter.
Yesterday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked the question out in the Instead of answering the question, Gibbs put on his "tap" shoes and danced around the question. He said he would have to “check on it” before he could deny Rep. Joe Sestak’s (D.-Pa.) claim that the administration had offered him a high-ranking job in the administration in exchange for not mounting a primary challenge against incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter. This is not the first time Gibbs has dodged the question.
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“That seat is a damned valuable thing....”
WHY would Sestak lie, WH? He’s running the whole setup like a union boss.
The ‘Rat Crime Syndicate operates at all levels including the TOTUS. BTTT!
Why is Sestak a Dem?
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Bribing Sestak not to run would qualify in my book.
I’d like to know if any money (or “offer”) was involved when Jim Hightower convinced Kinky Friedman to drop out of the Democrat primary for Texas governor leaving the race wide open for Bill White.
The List, ping
The only reason the White House is “avoiding” the Sestak claim is because they are allowed to.
Where are all the people crying foul?
It wasn't a prediction, it was a claim, or a charge, or an accusation. Who writes these things?
I don't know why I am constantly amazed at the stupidity of our political class. Rather than own up, take the hit and move on, they do that "tap dance" which just makes the situation worse and drags the scandal on longer than it would have otherwise lasted.
I remember when Perot gave a speech to the Press Corps and at the Q&A session afterward, one reporter asked him if he thought people would listen to him if he wasn't rich. Perot asnwered "No." and there was a stunned silence, followed by a nervous titter, as if the reporters weren't used to someone giving a truthful answer. A similar streak of truthfulness in any politician would pay off in many ways, but evidently it is just not in their genes.
I don’t know why I am constantly amazed at the stupidity of our political class. Rather than own up, take the hit and move on, they do that “tap dance” which just makes the situation worse and drags the scandal on longer than it would have otherwise lasted. “
Perhaps if what is posted in #7 is true, they are looking for a way to save their collective hides?
Perhaps if what is posted in #7 is true, they are looking for a way to save their collective hides?
Yeah, I wasn't thinking so much of a mea culpa but you'd think they could say something like, "The offer was misunderstood. We recoginized Mr. X had a talent that could be better used in such-and-such-a-department." Instead, they stonewall, which just makes the public home in on the problem.
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