Posted on 05/25/2010 10:04:37 AM PDT by i88schwartz
RealClearPolitics spoke to Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), ranking member on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, this morning. RCP asked him about the controversy surrounding Rep. Joe Sestak, the Democratic nominee in Pennsylvania's Senate race. Sestak has said numerous times, most recently on "Meet the Press," that he was offered a job by the White House to drop out of the primary race against Specter. The White House has dodged questions about the matter until recently. Yesterday, Obama's senior adviser David Axelrod said "nothing inappropriate happened." White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gave the same response on Sunday's "Face the Nation."
Rep. Issa told me "clearly a crime has been committed" and says he will pressure the White House to clear up the issue. Issa says he will also pressure Rep. Sestak to live up to the Navy ethics code and the House ethics code.
Issa says Sestak is not the "target" because he has "truthfully answered" a question. Issa also says if true, the White House has committed "crimes" and "felonies."
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Gibbs is on record as saying they checked it all out with WH lawyers and nothing inappropriate took place. If there was no job offer, why didn't Gibbs just say so? Why resort to the "no controlling legal authority" defense?
I know they don't want to make it look like Sestak was lying, but they could just claim a misunderstanding and let Sestak off the hook.
So Axelrod is throwing Sestak under the bus and going on record as saying the Democrat PA voters picked to run in November is a liar.
I guess rather than get into the details about this, they’re just going to concede the PA Senate election to Toomey.
That is exactly what will happen. They will come up with some wording like last week, "I didn't mean to say I was in VietNam".
It's always an excuse for their lies.
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