How many folks does Hussein have to throw under the bus? Gonna' get awful crowded under there.

Did the Obama Administration's job offer to Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) break the law? Experts say yes.

11 March 2010, 1:01 pm

Did the Obama Administration's job offer to Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) break the law? Experts say yes.

Did the Obama Administration break the law by offering a high-ranking government job to Rep. Joe Sestak if he would drop out of the primary race against Sen. Arlen Specter? Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) seems to think so, and we would have to agree.

“Almost always candidates keep quiet about such deals, and for good reason — they are against the law.” -Rep. Darrell Issa

The top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee says the Obama administration may have broken the law by offering Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) a job in order to persuade him not to mount a primary challenge against Sen. Arlen Specter.

Sestak has said that the administration offered him a high-ranking government job if he’d stay out of the race. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs has been asked repeatedly about the accusation in recent weeks but so far has neither confirmed nor denied that a job was offered.

But in a letter to White House general counsel Robert Bauer Wednesday, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said that, if Sestak’s allegation is true, administration officials may have violated a federal statute which makes it a crime for a government employee to use his authority “for the purpose of interfering with, or affecting, the nomination or the election of any candidate” for certain offices, including Senate seats.

“While the White House may think this is politics as usual, what is spectacularly unusual is when a candidate — a U.S. congressman no less — freely acknowledges such a proposal,” Issa wrote. “Almost always candidates keep quiet about such deals, and for good reason — they are against the law.”

Issa listed a series of questions he wants answered by March 18:

1. At any time, did White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel have communications with Rep. Sestak about the 2010 race for the United States Senate? Identify the communications.

2. At any time, did White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina have communications with Rep. Sestak about the 2010 race for the United States Senate? Identify the communications.

3. At any time, did any official within the White House Office of Political Affairs have communications with Rep. Sestak about the 2010 race for the United States Senate? Identify the political officials and the communications.

4. Identify any other individuals at the White House that had communications with Rep. Sestak about his bid for the United States Senate. For each individual, identify the communications.

5. What position(s) was (were) Rep. Sestak offered in exchange for his commitment to leave the Senate race?

6. Following Rep. Sestak’s disclosure that he was offered a position in the president’s administration in exchange for bowing out of the 2010 race for the United States Senate, what, if any, investigation did your office undertake to determine whether the criminal activity described by Rep. Sestak occurred?

7. Do you expect to make a referral to the United States Department of Justice in this matter? When should we expect this referral?

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34221.html#ixzz0ht5QrAsj

Simple question, simple answer? Did the Obama 'adminstration' break the law by offering the candidate, Joe Sestak, the 'quid pro quo' of a job in the 'administration' in return for his withdrawal from the race against Arlen Spectre? YES. End of story.

This is Chicago style politics on display yet again..

If you can't persuade them ... bribe them


It's pretty pathetic..

If it turns out that it infact happened, then when we have a Republican Congress and Senate we can start the impeachment process.

Wishful thinking.

People should know better by now but I guess not.

Obama is above board.

That is why nothing thrown at him can stick.

He keeps, or hopes to keep his hands clean, by ordering others to do his dirty work.

His house of cards will come tumbling down on top of him.

Gangsta' bully style.