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Media Matters ADMITS Barack Obama Has Bribed Congressman Jim Matheson

The Great Gavel Giveaway of 2010 is looking more and more like Gavelgate

Media Matters, doing its typical shilling for the Obama Administration, threw up some lame talking points about Barack Obama appointing Scott Matheson, brother of Congressman Jim Matheson, to the federal bench.

The right has pointed out it has the appearance of bribery.

Today, trying to refute the accusation, Media Matters gives away the game. Casually in defending the appointment, Media Matters notes Scott Matheson told the White House in June of 2009 that he wanted Judge Michael McConnell’s job when it became available at the end of August 2009.

When does Barack Obama choose to appoint Scott Matheson?

Yesterday. The same day he has over the appointee’s brother, a congressman, to persuade the Congress to change his no vote on health care to a yes vote.

The Great Gavel Giveaway of 2010 is looking more and more like Gavelgate thanks to the industrious spinning of Media Matters trying to be helpful.

You know, giving Athena Innovative Solutions, Inc. defense contracts after $2 million in gifts to Duke Cunningham got Duke Cunningham thrown in jail. Giving a congressman’s brother life tenure on the federal bench in exchange for supporting the President’s legacy project is not much different.

COMMENTS

  • stigmo

    95 percent of the electorate doesn’t understand what reconciliation is. Everybody gets bribery.

  • mikenad

    This guy is no moderate. A 36 from ACU. This is a naked bribe. Matheson should rember than he is in a +15R district. McCain got 61% here and W. got 67% here. Matheson must be targeted! This one should be a top priority.

  • Achance
  • Bill S

    That is an excellent point. We really do need to be pushing the messages that the masses get. And you’re right – that is definitely one of them.

  • stigmo

    As folks who eat, drink, breathe and sleep these issues every day, we have a good grasp of the nuances. I’d guess fewer than one in ten likely voters actually know what this reconciliation process means.

  • pilgrim
  • Achance

    it would be suicide with their base. Now he’s making sure no Republican will ever appoint him! We need to crucify him and any other Republican that goes along with this Chicago graft.

  • William_L

    … a high crime or misdemeanor? Bribery okay? Blatant disregard of the Constitution?

  • http://www.thesubstratum.com gman2008

    Obama has shown himself to be imprudent, insolent, incompetent, arrogant, contemptuous, elitist, and someone who obviously thinks he is above the law. This is madness and calls for impeachment pure and simple. Enough is enough.

    The man who holds the most powerful position in the world is offering bribes. Think about that for a moment. If ObamaCare passes, I don’t we will have ANY trouble getting this thing nullified (all of it) and some Senators and Representatives may find themselves forced out of office or, better yet, serving some jail time.

    It’s on.

  • itrytobenice

    And this is about the 70th verse, but Chicago politics is running the WH.

    Thanks a lot 52%. You make me want to believe in karma.

  • pilgrim

    It is not a big secret that Hatch has dreamed of being a Supreme Court judge. Obama could make a promise to appoint him.. Hatch had been a very close friend of Ted Kennedy.

  • Dan McLaughlin

    at the level of public awareness of the Nebraska and Louisiana deals. This is the same thing, and totally out in the open.

  • http://www.thesubstratum.com gman2008

    http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/03/yes-he-can-sign-that-bill.html#comment-form

    Once the House bill is passed, Obama signs it into law. Even is reconciliation worked, he can veto that bill and we are left with the House bill. This may even be a strategy to allow Dems in the House some coverage to mitigate losses in November. “We are outraged!” they will say. Nobody will buy it, but at a minimum the House had better really love the Senate version because there is no guarantee the Senate will be able to “fix” the bill or that Obama will sign it. All he needs is a House bill (which is the current Senate bill) and we all have ObamaCare.

    I hope the House holds up and rejects this. Otherwise I think this country is going to explode in rage.

  • E Pluribus Unum

    Hatch has always been one of the worst ‘lets get along’ jerks on the repub side. Idiots like him are precisely the kind of folks who should be targeted for primaries.

  • E Pluribus Unum
  • Sundayjack

    Matheson does his brother ZERO favors by switching his vote now. If he does, this will always be the Appeals Court judgeship that was flot-out purchased. It’s almost as if someone had planned to back Rep. Matheson into a cor. . . .

    . . . .Rove you magnificent bastard, you’ve done it again!!

  • Cowboy

    and the poor young lady that answered started in with the ” totally unrelated ” bs and I told her to save her breath. I related to her the old “you can fool the tourists but I live here” telling her not even the tourists believe what she is trying to sell. Then I asked if SHE even believed it. She could not bring herself to say yes. She was totally embarassed.

  • Right_Again

    But we’re going to try out best to replace Bennett now. Then we’ll be back for Hatch’s seat in 2012.

  • Cowboy

    Robert Bork has as much chance as Hatch.

  • Achance
  • Cowboy

    But while we are at it lets push to get rid Matheson now! Redstate has gone after Bennett more than Matheson. If Matheson filps he will lose. We may beat him anyway.

  • pilgrim

    I just wouldn’t put it past Obama to make an offer he has no intent of following thru on to get what he wants. I don’t know how smart Hatch is to see thru something like that.

  • proudgop

    Here is the thing too a lot filing deadline are approaching

    Matheson is not scared yet about his re-election. He has not top tier challenger and filing deadline is very soon

  • Cowboy

    You’re right about both. Since I’m a native Utahn I have watched the good Hatch of 1976 become what we see today. Like most aging pols he still thinks he is the same man. Believe me I have asked him to retire more than once.

  • http://www.voteforteri2010.com teridavisnewman

    Why are you suprised? It’s the Chicago way baby!! Bribery is a way of life in the land of Lincoln and they are blatant about it. Being in DC doesn’t change the rules of the game for these scumbags.

  • edintexas

    Bart Stupak apparently was assured that if the Senate bill passes the House, the Senate will “Fix” the problem Stupak’s 12 Reps have with the Abortion issue. When asked, Dick Turban said the Senate isn’t going to “fix” anything like that. Wonder if Stupak is smart enough to figure out that he’s about to get “Bunninged” if he votes to pass the Senate bull – er – bill.

  • Right_Again

    Due to Matheson representing the one area of Utah that likely leans to the Democrats (SLC/Park City), unseating him will be harder than dumping Bennett who faces state-wide voters.

    I agree totally with you that if Matheson were to flip on healthcare he would be gone. Even his supporters, on the whole, do not want government takeover of healthcare. The bribery angle would be especially harmful to him.

    The anger against Bennett is papable and widespread among the voters of Utah. He is part of the Washington problem. We elect these politicians to represent us not to lecture us. He doesn’t understand this basic concept and will pay the price for his arrogance.

  • Ireland

    This Administration and it?s leader keeps trying to tell the public that, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quack?s like a duck, smells like a duck and behaves like a duck, then it must be a frog. They have tried very, very, very hard to tell the public they aren?t a duck even if all the evidence points to the fact that they are, the more they lie the more their supporters dwindle.

    I haven?t followed politics until the last ten years or so. I was one of those idiots who voted for Bill Clinton, thinking he was a cool guy. The media sat on information about him until after the election. They conveniently failed to release information about his licentious behavior with the females other than his wife, Hillary. We all remember the outcome of what transpired. I?ve learned to distrust all politicians until they prove what they believe, what they do and what they say, all match and until then they remain corruptible to me. I trust Jim DeMint, John Thune, Jefferson Sessions and a handful of a few others. This latest batch of deceptive Democrats and a few Republicans seem to be all corrupt, that they know the public doesn?t want something shoved down our throats, yet they continue to disregard the publics opinion. I also don?t trust most of the Republicans at this point. I think many of those who are against ObamaCare aren?t really against it, they are only against it because it came from the Democrats.

    I felt alone in my believe system but now see others are doing they same thing. Vote out all the incumbents out of office and find better representation then these jerks.

  • whartman

    So if the House doesn’t hold up and passes the Senate version, and thus the country explodes in rage — how is this a bad thing?

    Big picture: Obama has delivered to real freedom-loving Americans a popular resurgence of Liberty even beyond that produced by Reagan. The greater the number of visible anti-American things that they do between now and November 4th, the better.

    If Obamacare passes, implementation will be delayed by lawsuits. Real Americans will refuse to participate. Civil disobedience will be in the news. What is done can and will be undone in three years, or earlier if clear case can be made for the impeachment of Fearless Leader and his Vice Leader.

    Certainly God had every right to make the entire country suffer for the racism of so many voters in the last election. But instead, in the name of free will and as a reflection of His own love of human Freedom, He has allowed us an unearned opportunity to again choose Liberty.

  • qixlqatl
  • Flagstaff

    Jim Matheson can easily prove that the appointment of his brother was not a bribe.

    All he has to do is vote against Obamacare. You can’t have a bribe without a quid pro quo. And if Obama then suddenly withdraws the nomination, it would only prove that he intended to bribe Matheson, but Matheson didn’t take the bribe.

    Seems to me that Matheson’s only decision is whether to vote “No” or vote “Present.”

  • Flagstaff
  • mikie40

    Exploding in rage is just what these Socialists want. They will use it to seize more power and take away your Constitutional rights. They are waiting for the excuse to declare marshal law and put the troops they have ?selected? on the street in their new vision of America.