Emanuel Should Go
It kinda takes your breath away, the White House spin on the Sestak, um, problem. Joe Sestak announced in February that he had been offered a position if he would get out of the way of Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Senate race. Specter had switched from Republican to Democrat when he saw he would get pounded by the right wing, so the Dem polity tried to induce Sestak to quit the race.
On Thursday, the President of the United States told reporters that they were preparing an explanation of the Sestak case, but that nothing illegal had been done. Then Friday it was learned that Rahm Emanuel had used Bill Clinton to offer to Sestak a seat on a commission dealing with national security if he would end his campaign. The White House insisted that it wasn’t illegal because the position didn’t pay anything.
By their logic, if it had paid something then it would have been illegal. And therein, friends, lies the rub. Just because they weren’t going to pay him actual money doesn’t mean that being on the commission wouldn’t have had value for Sestak. Of course it would. If it hadn’t been worth anything, they wouldn’t have offered it to him to get out of the race. That is, there would have been no quid for the quo.
Barack Obama is positioning himself to be the greatest disappointment of modern times. His warmongering, his dilly-dallying, his close relationship with the bankers and brokers, his heavy involvement in politics when he should be minding the store, and keeping Emanuel as his chief of staff...it creates an unpleasant odor for those progressive-minded Americans who thought he just might be different. ‘Cause apparently he’s not.
If the Sestak offer wasn’t illegal by the letter of the law, it certainly offends the purpose of the law. Are we back to government-by-the-unindicted?
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