Posted on 05/30/2010 12:03:14 PM PDT by Welshman007
Exactly how does an 'offer' of an unpaid position in the Obama Administration entice a politician to drop a bid for the U.S. Senate in a year in which the incumbent, Arlen Specter, had all of the appeal of a mangy, flea-infested dog?
Yet the White House, Bill Clinton, and Joe Sestak would have the public believe that this is all that was offered to entice the Congressman away from challenging Specter.
Even the hardened Chicago mobster himself, Rahm 'Dead Fish' Emanuel, knows that in this game 'you gotta come up with somethin' bettah than dat.' Politics is a game of hardball. And when you play with the big guys you don't deal with measly 'unpaid positions.'
Such a suggestion is laughable, and the mere fact that these buffoons expect the public to buy it is hilarious. Everyone knows that these seasoned hardball goons offered substantially more than they are saying.
And, at the very least, Joe Sestak is lying and the voters in Pennsylvania should hold him accountable.
At the very worst, a felony was committed although the offer was for an 'unpaid position.'
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Impeach.
“Exactly how does an ‘offer’ of an unpaid position in the Obama Administration entice a politician to drop a bid for the U.S. Senate...?”
It doesn’t. That’s why Sestak ran.
If we are pinning our hopes on this offer to Sestak being Obama’s impeachable offense, it’s a very slim reed. Either everybody is lying - like the opinion writer states - or they are just telling the truth. A suggestion of a possible appointment was made to Sestak and it wasn’t attractive enough to entice him.
It’s going to be close to impossible to get enough evidence to prove they are all lying.
If you want to impeach Obama, perhaps going after him for taking a payoff to protect BP is a better bet. People are going to want to destroy somebody in three months when they see what this oil geyser has done to this country. If you don’t want their rage directed at oil companies and lax regulations instituted during a GOP administration, then you have to focus them on the Obama administration. It was their MMS director. They signed off on the permits. They kept the same crew in office for *14 months* after the election.
If the Dems can blame Bush for 9/11, Obama can certainly be tarred with this disaster. If he was complicit in this, the worst environmental disaster in US history, then the entire citizenry will want to see him disgraced and pulled from the Oval Office.
This Sestak possibility seems totally believable to the true believers. But you need more to actually get an impeachment committee formed.
Did Slick do his best thug impersonation when talking to Sestak? “Hey, Joe, commere, now listen, Pally, yoos gotsta get out or yoos gonna be swimmin’ with da fishes”.
Satan is strong in the Democratic party and this administration, please God help us all
I really, really, really, really wonder how far this will go.
The violation(s) of law are so blatant in this affair, it’s as if the administration carefully examined the law and deliberately set out to violate *all* of its provisions in very specific detail. Quite remarkable.
Yep, it’s laughable how they insult our intelligence. It strains believability that Sestak would be enticed by some unpaid advisory position on a White House advisory panel.
Where exactly are the lines drawn though? We all know that political deals are made in back rooms, with decisions made about primary challengers and who certain people will support in future elections and all that.
Doesn’t it set all our minds at ease to learn that Bill Clinton was involved in this? It gives me great comfort that someone such as Bill Clinton, with no hint of scandal in his background, was involved. That should convince us all that everything was above board (sarcasm!)
“If you want to impeach Obama...”
I hope I don’t have to become the voice of “let’s not impeach Obama” but, really, let’s not impeach Obama.
At least not over small potatoes like this.
OK, it may not techincally be small potatoes, but it is smaller than the Bill Clinton impeachment potatoes were and look how well that went for our side.
We need to give Obama the Alinsky-ite treatment he so richly deserves: Isolate, ridicule, destroy.
They think that by lying about a 'non-salaried' job it will rescue them legaly, but it needn't be so. A job in a Presidential Administration is in itself a financial reward because of its many financial perks, (health care, hotels, meals, clothing allowances, travel, etc., --- all this amounts to more pay than most Americans will ever earn). Then there is the inherent power and influence one gains when accepting a White House job. The offering of jewel of a White House position, no matter what the title may be, in exchange for a political favor, namely, to not run for Office, is indeed a bribe; salary or no salary. For a man already financially set for life, like Sestak, a job such as this means that he will not have to spend a dime on daily living expenses and conveniences that most of us can only dream about. In other words, he still would have obtained financial gain in the form of an all-expenses-paid lifestyle had he taken the "unsalaried" job.
It went well enough that people voted in an all Republcan House and Senate, well enough to weaken his Presidential influence, and well enough to make him the ONLY elected President to ever have been impeached. If you think about it, probably no President will ever be impeached for what amount to "high crimes", such as rape, murder, treason, etc. It will be the smaller crimes that bring down a corrupt President, because his corruption and arrogance will allow him to do what he pleases, which in turn creates a snare for himself.
Yeah, that's the ticket, everybody is telling the truth.
Bwaaaahahahahahahaaaaa!
A suggestion of a possible appointment was made to Sestak and it wasn’t attractive enough to entice him.
But didn't Sestak just say that he cut Bubba off before he could say what the offer was?
It doesn't really matter. Bill Clintoon has publically admitted making the offer and WH spokes-weasel Baghdad Bob Gibbs publically admitted it too.
“let’s not impeach Obama.”
I love people that say we should let criminals run our government.
Yeah, but as Obama said: "We went in and changed things around right away, it's just that the culture of corruption lingered on.." LOL. He's a lawyer through and through, but his arrogance has snared him. He'll provide all the legal rope necessary to bring himself down, he's not nearly as smart as he thinks he is. The Republican Party just needs some balls, that's what Obama has and the Republcans lack, and he's betting on the continuation of a castrated Republican party for his survival.
place marker.
Well, everyone should know by now that ‘’ethics’’ is merely a bad spelling of ‘’pathetic’’,,,don’t bother to them a bit,,they hid all their records, too.
The only question that matters is what our side is gonna do about it. Will it go away like all the pundits are saying or will we push the envelope? Otherwise, a tree fell in the woods and we couldn’t prove it made a sound.
I think the explanation that Obama didn’t expect the offer to be accepted and was just throwing a bone to Specter makes sense.
“It went well enough that people voted in an all Republcan House and Senate...”
Well that’s not accurate, the house & senate were never ALL republican, and my recollection is that we had already taken the majority before Clinton’s impeachment.
I don’t want our side to lose focus. I want us to focus on November, voting out as many Dem and RINOs as possible. Start to undo the damage of 2 years of Obama and 40 years of liberalism.
And focus on 2012, let’s have a better primary season than last time folks, PLEASE!
I just think impeachment over the Sestack kerfuffle would be a distraction and a big mistake.
And remember, it will only get us Biden. A moron, but a tenured moron of long experience, who might actually have the two brain cells required to get himself some GOOD advisers who will hide his idiocy and who might, if (GOD FORBID) this stuff actually happened, be a more formidable incumbent in 2012 than the big O would be.
Why would Sestak be offered an insignificant job that doesn’t pay sh!t in exchange for stepping away from a Senate race?
That’s akin to offering him a job as local ditch digger while running for mayor.
The democrats must think we are as stupid as they look.
Rendell's fate and example are just a window into the Dirty Corrupt way of Pennsylvania Politics that he supposes are also the norm for the Federal government as well.
Nevertheless, it is remarkably tone deaf to listen to the plain language of the law and say it doesn't matter.
If this one doesn't then which does?
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