Hans von Spakovsky & Cully Stimson have the top story at Human Events this morning:
Federal statutes seem to contradict a memorandum from the White House counsel released on Friday that claimed that no law was violated when Rep. Joe Sestak was offered a government post in exchange for dropping out of the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary against Sen. Arlen Specter.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs blithely dismissed the issue for months. “Lawyers in the White House and others have looked into conversations that were had with Congressman Sestak, and nothing inappropriate happened,” he said. But the two-page memorandum admitted that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel asked former President Bill Clinton to offer Sestak a position on a presidential or senior executive branch advisory board. Apparently Gibbs and the White House expect us to accept their self-investigation and self-evaluation that nothing “inappropriate” happened.
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Achance (Diary) Tuesday, June 1st at 10:57AM EDT (link)There is absolutely NO WAY the “offer” was for some unpaid advisory position. It had to be for something worth stepping away from a Senate run for and they had to feel that Sestak posed an electoral danger to Specter. If he was not a threat, there’s no reason to take the risk of stepping in. If you’re going to take the risk of stepping in, then it has to be a meaningful step. Rahm Emmanuel is a lot of things, but stupid isn’t usually one of them. Rahm Emmanuel could have made the offer just as easily as WJC, and may well have actually been the one who did it. The only reason to bring Clinton in at all is as a cutout, and it is just as illegal to use the cutout as it is to do it yourself. Another reason to have Clinton do it – or say he did – is to both silence Sestak and keep him in line because of his loyalty to the Clintons and to use the “prestige” of the former President as a shield against prosecution.
There’s really no reason for Clinton to do anything for Comrade Obama, so you must think he either did this for Emmanuel or Sestak, or, the Obama Regime has something on him that they can use to make him provide great services to them. I lean towards the latter explanation, since it is the only thing that would make him and HRC go so quietly and meekly into relative obscurity with BHO’s ascension.
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I suppose its cliche to say this is "just politics", but
fairbanks Tuesday, June 1st at 11:03AM EDT (link)If I remember from back in the 70′s, President Reagan semi-publicly offered Senator Hayakawa a cabinet position/ambassadorship of some type to drop out of the California Republican senate primary. Sen. Hayakawa refused, but I don’t recall it be any sort of big deal like the Sestak offer has been. It ain’t pretty, but this kind of horse trading has always been a part of party politics. This “scandal” seems more like a red herring to distract from legitimate criticisms of Sestak’s record, i.e. his 100% NARAL rating/F from the NRA/etc.
I am pretending that I never heard that the doc fix was going to be imposed later. This is because I think that the rest of you are stupid.
“… I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy — that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.”Since Reagan wasn't President in the '70s,
Achance (Diary) Tuesday, June 1st at 11:13AM EDT (link)you might want to work on that story a little.
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Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Tuesday, June 1st at 11:20AM EDT (link)Once a moss-backed old Democrat asked me if I remembered back in the 70′s when Reagan let the iranians take our embassy hostage. That’s how frickking dumb you just succeeded in sounding.
Mr. Obama is pretending that an economic “recovery” is underway when he knows damn well that the banking system is just blowing smoke up the shredded *** of what’s left of that economy – James Howard Kunstler
Sorry, should have been clearer
fairbanks Tuesday, June 1st at 11:25AM EDT (link)Hayakawa was elected to the Senate in the 70′s. The primary I was referring to was in ’82, which he eventually lost to Pete Wilson.
I am pretending that I never heard that the doc fix was going to be imposed later. This is because I think that the rest of you are stupid.
“… I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy — that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.”What You Should Have been Was Factually Accurate.
Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Tuesday, June 1st at 11:34AM EDT (link)Your troll here is working about as well as Top Kill.
Mr. Obama is pretending that an economic “recovery” is underway when he knows damn well that the banking system is just blowing smoke up the shredded *** of what’s left of that economy – James Howard Kunstler
Fair point, I should have included citations
fairbanks Tuesday, June 1st at 11:41AM EDT (link)http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19811126&id=e9cTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LgYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7178,6653372
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ibcsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HhQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5060,5317656&hl=en
Anyway, that wasn’t the main point of my post. Sestak is substantially further to the left than Arlen Spector ever was; in fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find a moral radical left-winger in the senate. Yet no one seems particularly concerned that this guy is still within closing distance of Toomey in the polls?
I am pretending that I never heard that the doc fix was going to be imposed later. This is because I think that the rest of you are stupid.
“… I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy — that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.”Note the statement that there was no contact
Achance (Diary) Tuesday, June 1st at 12:00PM EDT (link)between the Reagan Administration and Hayakawa. That is a pretty significant distinction. All this is is the AP jumping on an ill-advised remark by Ed Rollins who wasn’t even working for the Administration at the time he made the remark.
In any event, as I said above, I think the whole story is a lie. Emmanuel was practicing Chicago politics as usual and it blew up; why, I don’t know, usually Democrats are either smart enough or scared enough to keep their mouths shut about stuff like this.
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obama alienated many in his own party with his relentless
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Tuesday, June 1st at 12:06PM EDT (link)obamacare push
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“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
We could spend a lot of time splitting hairs here
fairbanks Tuesday, June 1st at 12:11PM EDT (link)Although I would note that Rollins was an incoming advisor to the Reagan White House, whereas the Sestak offer was likely made by Bill Clinton, who is, well, Bill Clinton. Not a White House official, at the very least, atlhough god knows what sort of nebulous unofficial capacity he has in this administration.
Anyway, I think the larger lesson is that, at the time it occurred, even if the press blew the offer out of proportion, it didn’t warrant anything more than a few AP paragraphs. Reagan/the RNC had a favored horse in the race, and tried to give him a boost. The idea that it was some sort of Watergate-level scandal was preposterous, and I’m afraid people will feel the same way about this if Toomey makes it his big issue in the campaign.
I am pretending that I never heard that the doc fix was going to be imposed later. This is because I think that the rest of you are stupid.
“… I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy — that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.”From your cite,
partyof1 Tuesday, June 1st at 12:17PM EDT (link)emphasis is mine.
Clearly there are similarities between the situations, but also important distinctions.
Did Hayakawa campaign on that offer?
Moe Lane (Diary) Tuesday, June 1st at 11:37AM EDT (link)As an anti-establishment figure?
Then collude with the establishment to come up with a cover story, once he won the nomination?
Rhetorical questions, of course: but Sestak and the administration will not benefit forever from an ability to duck official inquiries.
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fairbanks Tuesday, June 1st at 11:44AM EDT (link)Sestak toes every single liberal party line there is, from HCR to Cap and Tax to abortion. Shouldn’t simply displaying his left-wing “report card” for everyone to see be enough in this election cycle?
I am pretending that I never heard that the doc fix was going to be imposed later. This is because I think that the rest of you are stupid.
“… I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy — that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.”Sestak is a democrat, we oppose him - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Tuesday, June 1st at 11:50AM EDT (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com and Charlotte Observer columns
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billyboy347 Tuesday, June 1st at 3:44PM EDT (link)It’s 0540 here is Australia, Achance and I just lost my breakfast laughing at your reply to the Reagan comment. Oh well, I’ll have to go to work hungry. This is my first post (being so far away it’ll take a while to get there probably!!!)
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reddogreport (Diary) Tuesday, June 1st at 11:04AM EDT (link)The journalist that finally unravels the truth on the Sestak Bribe will go down in history, just like Woodward and Bernstein.
The cover-up will take down this White House.
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