If this were a republican would we even be talking to Hillary? Would she not be in jail or at least removed from the race?
On the news last night watching her talk about the emails, I am thinking, you put this country through a lot of trouble and you broke the rules.
Why are you still being taken seriously? With all the other events, how are you still standing? Something stinks.
If this were a republican would we even be talking to Hillary?
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As an example, ask Bob McDonnell, former governor of Va. how that works if you’re a Republican.
In the meanwhile (from the link):
The Washington Post reports that the federal agency that guides sentencing for former Virginia governor Robert McDonnell recommended at least 10 years in the hoosegow. He was convicted of, as the Post puts it, “lending the prestige of his office to Richmond businessman Jonnie R. Williams Sr. in exchange for $177,000 in loans, vacations and luxury items.”
But 10 years is a long time for luxury items! So how much is U.S. Senator Mark Warner going to get for dangling a judgeship in front of a Democratic state senator’s daughter in an effort to dissuade him from quitting office and helping Republicans?
This story is even more sordid. Virginia had an evenly divided senate. Democratic state senator Phillip Puckett resigned his seat — perhaps being lured out of it by job offers from Republicans — and threw it into Republican hands. That was very bad for Gov. Terry McAuliffe and his top legislative priority — expanding Medicaid under Obamacare. The allegations that Republicans had dangled job offers launched a federal probe akin to what happened with McConnell. But that’s when things got complicated.
It turned out that Democrats had been offering jobs to the state senator’s family. And not just any Democrats.
Sen. Mark Warner suggested a federal judgeship for Puckett’s daughter, even though she’d barely practiced any federal law. According to family members, he also “suggested a post for her at CGI, a high-tech firm Warner helped lure to Southwest Virginia when he was governor a decade ago.” You don’t say! That sounds very Bob McDonnell-like!
And McAuliffe’s chief of staff had basically promised Puckett the moon if he’d only stay in office.
So what happened? How many years for Warner and everyone else engaged in shenanigans? Did you guess no years? You would be correct, because apparently judgeships are less important than Rolexes. Or federal probes that entangle Democrats aren’t as cool as federal probes that entangle Republicans.