Posted on 02/21/2010 10:40:48 AM PST by opentalk
In a major political scandal orchestrated by the Obama Administration, a popular Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania has revealed that the White House tried bribing him to drop out of the upcoming U.S. Senate race.
Congressman Joe Sestak said in a television news show that the White House offered him a top federal job in an effort to keep him from challenging Senator Arlen Specter in the state’s Democratic primary. A five-term incumbent, Specter switched from Republican to Democrat last spring after giving Obama the critical vote for his disastrous and fraud-infested $787 billion stimulus program.
The president clearly wants to return the favor by helping the controversial lawmaker keep his job. In fact, Obama endorsed Specter at the White House and has raised money for the 80-year-old lawmaker. Besides the president, many top Democratic leaders have also tried to dissuade Sestak, a retired Navy admiral, from challenging Specter.
However, attempting to bribe a legislator with a “high-ranking” federal job is deplorable and downright unethical to say the least. Obviously this is why the president and his White House staff are enraged that Sestak disclosed the unscrupulous backdoor offer to keep him out of the upcoming Democratic primary.
Before Specter bailed on Republicans Obama assured the contentious lawmaker he’d do everything in his power to help him win reelection if he switched parties. The White House assured Specter there was no Democrat in a position to make a realistic challenge against him and that he had the “full backing” of the president, which includes campaigning and fundraising by the commander-in-chief.
That plan evidently blew up in Obama’s face so he resorted to bribery. Not only does Specter face stiff competition from Sestak in the Democratic primary, the Republican (former Congressman Pat Toomey) expected to make the general election leads both Specter and Sestak in head-to-head match-ups by about ten points.
Bribery is small potatoes for this bunch. I doubt we’ll hear anything more about it.
isn’t this a federal crime? GOP should push this loudly and demand congressional hearings and special prosecutor.
Oh, Holder’s justice department won’t jump on this with the Zeal he is going after Sheriff Arapio of Arizona? Heaven forbid!
It’s a little puzzling that Obama would want an unreliable POS like Specter around anyway....
isn’t this a federal crime? GOP should push this loudly and demand congressional hearings and special prosecutor.
isn’t this a federal crime? GOP should push this loudly and demand congressional hearings and special prosecutor.
Only if you are a Republican. And you would be tried and convicted by the liberal media first.
Specter recently signed the letter circulating in the Senate supporting reconciliation for the health care bill.
“”””””isn’t this a federal crime? GOP should push this loudly and demand congressional hearings and special prosecutor””
It’s only a federal crime if some desk clerk gets her name in the newspaper. /s
Sort of a “pay to not play” isn’t it?
Ronald Reagan was 73 when Democrats tried to make an issue out of him being too old to run for reelection.
You don’t understand politics and elections too way.
Sestak has NO CHANCE vs Toomey.
Spector has a chance, albeit maybe it’s maybe less than 50-50 right now.
The power of incumbency is huge, especially in a geriatric state like Pennsylvania.
Bribery,in the case of buying off the opposition, has been going on long before Obama was born, and it is not limited to just one party.
Just further evidence Obama and his ilk could care less about the country or its taxpayers.
Might be.
Doesn't matter much, because they have been doing it for 200 years, and no one has ever been charged with it.
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