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Kane: “Was it Secretary of the Navy?”
To which the Congressman replied:
“No comment.”
Sestak is a retired Navy admiral.
In the Colorado case, the Post reported that while Romanoff refused comment on a withdrawal-for-a-job offer, “several top Colorado Democrats described Messina’s outreach to Romanoff to The Post, including the discussion of specific jobs in the administration. They asked for anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.”
The Post also noted that the day after Romanoff announced his Senate candidacy, President Obama quickly announced his endorsement of Senator Bennet.
The discovery that the White House has now been reported on two separate occasions in two different states to be deliberately committing a potential violation of federal law — in order to preserve the Democrats’ Senate majority — could prove explosive in this highly political year. The 60-seat majority slipped to 59 seats with the death of Senator Edward Kennedy, a Democrat, and the election of Republican Senator Scott Brown. Many political analysts are suggesting Democrats could lose enough seats to lose their majority altogether.
This is the stuff of congressional investigations and cable news alerts, as an array of questions will inevitably start being asked of the Obama White House.
Here are but a few lines of inquiry, some inevitably straight out of Watergate.
* Who in the White House had this conversation with Congressman Sestak?
* Did Deputy Chief of Staff Messina have the same conversation with Sestak he is alleged to have had with Romanoff — and has he or anyone else on the White House staff had similar conversations with other candidates that promise federal jobs for political favors?
* They keep logs of these calls. How quickly will they be produced?
* How quickly would e-mails between the White House, Sestak, Specter, Romanoff and Bennet be produced?
* Secretary of the Navy is an important job. Did this job offer or the reported offer of the US AID position to Romanoff have the approval of President Obama or Vice President Biden?
* What did the President know and when did he know it?
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Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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ggoblue| 2.22.10 @ 6:15AM
waiting to see what they gave to get john cherry to drop out of the michigan governors race....he was way ahead in the democrat primary race, and an easy target for any republican. the lt. gov during the disaster known as granholm. it was rumored for months that the white house wanted him out and then...poof...he quits.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....12043.html
Tom in Michigan| 2.22.10 @ 4:32PM
What job do you think Granholm will receive for the show trial "hearing" that effectively swept convicted ex-Mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick off the national stage just in time for the 2008 'Presidential election? I'm betting on "Green Jobs" Czar since she's been touting that issue for some time here (according to her; she will bring a whopping 40,000 new jobs to Michigan to replace the 700,000 - heading for a cool million before she's finally out of her - that we've lost since she became the Governess).
Appleby| 2.22.10 @ 6:49AM
The old Chicago Machine Politics in action, is it not?
Quelle surprise.
anna| 2.23.10 @ 3:03AM
both Democrats supported by President Obama. The Senators are Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania and Michael Bennet in Colorado.
http://www.udtek.com/laptop-battery-c-1.html
Bacchus| 2.24.10 @ 1:17PM
Before the Birthers, there were the Truthers, long before either we had the Warren Commission. Arlen Specter made his bones on the political scene by concocting the "Single bullet theory" that explained how a bullet could hit JFK in the neck, turn 90 degrees and hit him in the arm, turn another 90 degrees and hit John Connolly, then do a 180 and come back to hit JFK again. Thereby he proved that all the carnage in the Presidential Limo was accomplished by Oswald acting alone. Only a man who can so very baldly refute the laws of physics can believe in Obama's vision -- of course the White House will do anything possible to keep the schmuck in the Senate!
Marshabar| 3.14.10 @ 2:07PM
GIVE THE THUGS A STINKING BREAK!!!
They didn't know it was wrong.
It isn't their fault that they were "brought up" in a Chicago.
Skeptical in Midwest| 2.22.10 @ 7:09AM
Wait...reporters raising damaging questions about Obama administration?...are we talking about the same media that slept through Van Jones and other outrages? Really?!?
Bram| 2.22.10 @ 8:18AM
I'm certain that the NYTimes will hit this story hard as soon as they are done with their big Climategate story.
Missy| 2.22.10 @ 9:39PM
After the big Climategate story and the next NYSlimes investigation into Trig's 'real' parentage.
Dave| 2.22.10 @ 7:47AM
Chicago style politics at its best! Don't hold your breath waiting for the Justice Dept. to initiate an investigation or appoint a special prosecutor.
QR4J| 2.22.10 @ 7:50AM
What do you expect? This is Chicago politics writ large. Thank you, Barack Hussein Obama mmm mmm mmm. You thought DC had problems with corruption? The City of Chicago book on corruption. And the State of Illinois sold it to every one of its citizens.
Melvin| 2.22.10 @ 7:51AM
Justice Dept. investigate, Eric Holder be forced to do his job, pleeassseeee. Eric Holder couldn't investigate a bubblegum robbery conducted by five year olds.
JohnK144| 2.22.10 @ 3:22PM
Actually the bubblegum robbery is exactly what eric holder would investigate, while ignoring the fact that the black panthers had beaten up the five year olds and took the bubblegum.
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Bill Hussien O'Stalin| 2.22.10 @ 8:43AM
The American media died when the likes of Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather started their careers. They were carefully groomed hand puppets of the left. The result is that other career minded journalists and the truth followed them over a cliff.
Tom in Michigan| 2.22.10 @ 4:52PM
Hear! Hear! In one of the most disgraceful acts of a debased profession; Walter Cronkite stood on a field of American victory after defeat of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong during the Tet (effectively taking the Vietcong out of the war as an effective fighting force) and told the nation we couldn't win, using the fact the VC has breached the American Embassy compound as his rationale (the Marines inside stopped them cold). Tet was a military disaster for the Communists but, he made it a propaganda victory. Walter Cronkite was even worse than the modern media because, he used his position of trust to betray the nation. I remember a buddy of mine who was in the thick of the Tet fighting crying, "What war was HE watching!?" Despite the historical facts, Cronkite was proud of his treason to his dying day and never admitted he was wrong. I remember my other friend who died at Khe Sahn as the fighting continued there until the end of March 1968. With luck, I’ll forget Cronkite some day
MikeBee| 2.22.10 @ 5:29PM
Tom,
You're right. I hope that they dig up W. C.'s remains, burn them, and scatter the ashes over N. Vietnam. He doesn't deserve to be buried in these United States.
Dan| 2.22.10 @ 7:19PM
Amen, Amen, and Amen again. Glad to know that I'm not the only Vet who thinks Cronkite is just as big a traitor as Hanoi Jane Fonda !
harv| 2.28.10 @ 9:16PM
you are 101% correct.
i arrived in phu bai for the '69 tet that never happened.
also Slime Ragazine said the americans were defeated.
no way. our convoys were never ambushed again during the year i was there 1-69, 1-70 because of the u.s. military defeating the cong and nva at THEIR Dien Bien Phu.
an army reporter hitch hiked from Quang Tri to ent end of HW 1 with only a camera. this was unheard of prior to the victory of the US forces.
we won strategically, but politically the d.c. crowd abandoned our ally when the nva finally violated the treaty and invaded the south. we could have straffed their mechanized convoys and stopped the advance from our carriers, thai stationed forces, 52's from Japan. the d.c. betrayed the south vietnamese and the americans that sacrificed their lives to give freedom to the south.
the minister of propaganda of the vietcong showed up in San Diego with the boat people, he was asked why he came since he won. he explained that the commies from the north either shot or sent the viet cong to reeducation work camps to die. he stated that he came to the conclusion that the cong fought on the wrong side.
a couple of million lives too late. thanks peacefaggot leftists. i am sure you will someday defend your country against those that cherish liberty.
adios,
harv
phu bai 1-69 1-70 31m
Otis, my man!| 2.22.10 @ 9:02AM
So? Who is going to do anything about it?
Jobe| 2.22.10 @ 9:35AM
Otis, my man! I doubt that many get the reference, but if I tell you that "Obama loves us!" , perhaps we can get Reid, Pelosi, and Obama to throw a toga party.
cuban pete | 2.22.10 @ 10:37AM
"Do you mind if we dance with your dates?"
Charles Martel| 2.22.10 @ 12:18PM
"If I were you, I would be..."
+++
Jobe| 2.22.10 @ 12:30PM
"Mr. Obama . . . O.O"
uncle fester| 2.22.10 @ 4:11PM
I am paraphrasing here: "We f%#$@'d up; we trusted them"
Gnarly Dude| 2.22.10 @ 9:42PM
Correction, fester--you f%#$@d up--I never trusted the thugs.
MeNoLikeObama| 2.23.10 @ 9:32AM
What are you studying? PRIMITIVE CULTURES!
Otis my man!| 2.23.10 @ 11:03AM
Congratulations to all!
Y'all are the first to get the reference!
Stephanie| 2.22.10 @ 4:45PM
No Pete, it's "Do you mind if we dance WIFF yo dates?" Otis, my man! Love your name~
Loved that movie~
albertconstantine, jr.| 2.22.10 @ 5:25PM
Actually, if you recall the epilogue, as Bluto drives off with Mandy, his future profession is identified as "Senator Blutarsky". Could it be that Animal House (and the character portrayed by John Belushi) was actually a thinly disguised biography of Joe Biden? As Bluto himself would say, "Holy S%*t!!!"
DOUG| 2.22.10 @ 8:45PM
I'M SURE NANCY AND DIRTY HARRY WILL START A CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION SOON!
Gnarly Dude| 2.22.10 @ 9:43PM
That's 'Nanzi and Dingy Harry' to you, DOUG.
Anthony| 2.22.10 @ 9:03AM
Arlen Specter continues to be at the center of all things that make Washington politics the sewer that it is. It really is time for Specter to be removed from office by the people.
Specter has become the poster-child for all that incumbancy in Washinton has come to represent.
Stephanie| 2.22.10 @ 4:48PM
Not to mention he's a misogynist.
Randall Robinson| 2.28.10 @ 6:27PM
Big ditto on the Specter assessment. Will Rush and the other radio conservatives jump onto this corruption issue?
Joe| 2.22.10 @ 9:10AM
The DOJ investigate? Don't be ridiculous! Eric Holder only has time to go after the CIA and others who try to keep this country safe. Can't wait for someone to write a book about this bunch in the White House. Should be interesting.
Robin| 2.22.10 @ 2:24PM
Culture of Corruption by Michelle Malkin. It will make blood shoot out of your eyes!!
luci| 2.22.10 @ 9:01PM
Robin;
How about the title "The wool they pulled over our eyes was half cotton"!
John - TMF| 2.22.10 @ 9:23AM
Mr. Lord:
You sir, are on the side of the angels. The unfortunate reality is that angels are playing baseball in the heavens.
The chance of this going further than the online pages of American Specator, Thinker, or maybe even a snuff over at Pajamas or NRO is tiny.
The only broadcast media likely to tag this one is talk radio, and Fox News might show up to the cable table.
So, this goes nowhere and nothing is done about it.
'Quid who? Pro what? Quo where?' - imputed quote from the partisan mind of Eric "The hahfahbee" Holder.
He may as well be a pet fish.
The fraud, graft, and machine politics goes on as usual.
r/The Mighty Fahvaag
the permanent newbie| 2.22.10 @ 11:54AM
Eric "the hahfahbee" Holder? He had an accident?
Seriously, thank you for three fun references even better (if possible) than Otis'!
One might even say that The Mighty Fahvaag is my idol...
Blackwatch| 2.22.10 @ 3:08PM
Hello!
We need to call for Holder to recuse his administration and call for a Special Prosecuter
---today! This is 2010 and charges need to be lodged against all involved during this most important election year. And the best person to call for this is a very high profile outsider like......Oprah. (joke! I couldn't resist!!) Sorry it shouldn't come from a bunch of Republican leaders. A call for a Special Prosecuter from Mitch McConnell or John Boehner would appear to be a partisan manuever.
We need a two prong thrust from different directions. Give the job to the TEA Parties and also to Sarah Palin! This is right up their alley so to speak. Palin makes the announcement on FACEBOOK and then calls a press conference. The MSM covers it because they think she is stupid and they can make fun of the hick. She announces the call for the special prosecuter with a back drop of JFK's quotes writ large and repeated adnausem. She makes a we need to clean the corrupt government now type of statement. Next the TEA Partiers act as the shock troops--swarm each congress critter with calls, visits, etc, until the special prosecuter is selected and confirmed. End crony payoffs and corruption from the top. Put the heat on all of the congress critters. Most of them will fold like cards--they can't stand Rhambo either.
Dan Hirsch| 2.22.10 @ 9:25AM
C'mon Jeffrey!
What did Joe Biden know and when did he know it? Who could possibly tell? Joe Biden doesn't know what Joe Biden knows, much less when he knows it. Heck, whether he knows it!
Rod Blagovich, impeached and convicted governor, is in the dock for auctioning of Pres. Obama's lightly-used Senate seat.
You all are right, this is Chicago politics!!
Remember where the last votes came from to give JFK Illinois and the Presidency in November 1960...Cook County, Illinois.
Dan Hirsch
Paris Wisconsin
Ned| 2.22.10 @ 1:24PM
I've always maintained that what got Nixon in trouble was trying to do to the Dim-O-crats what was done to him... and not being evil enough to pull it off with a straight face as they had.
RodgerDSmith| 2.22.10 @ 9:44AM
Oboy is acting no differently than Hitler did after attaining the Chancellorship of the Weimar Republic-- and he intends to try to grab as much power as Hitler. He has only one goal: Absolute Power. Like the Nazis, you can be assured there will be a Reichstag "fire," a False Flag attack, and an end to the Rule of Law.
darcy| 2.22.10 @ 1:45PM
I fear he's playing for keeps. After reading "above the fold" on Drudge this morning and learning of the new-and-improved health care bill Overreacher intends to cram up our *$$#$, I feel like having a good puke.
No, when we have little Hitler in office as we do now and his crony crocks of Pelosi and Reid goading him to ever more brazen despotic acts, there will be no investigation of Sestak's claims.
A. Hitler's first concern was to rig the courts; and now with our own judicial system all but a rubber stamp to statism and the Atty Gen a sycophant, we're in very deep weeds. This is not going to end well. O's intent is to push until we push back, at which time he'll bring out the big guns.
He's a very nasty piece of work.
Congress Works For Us| 2.24.10 @ 4:43PM
Wait... Obama doesn't have any big guns; he doesn't believe in the 2nd amendment.
WE are the ones with the guns, big and small!
Mark| 2.26.10 @ 9:51AM
But if you even TRY to use them, you will be murdered by "Law Enforcement" in body armor with fully automatic weapons. THAT is the country we live in nowadays. "Law Enforcement" won't even bother to PRETEND to honor their oath to uphold the Constitution. They even openly MOCK the Oath Keepers who take their oath seriously. And they absolutely REFUSE to do anything to the illegal alien BY HIS OWN WORDS who is occupying the office of President. BY HIS OWN WORDS he attended Indonesian public school at a time when Indonesia did not allow non-citizens to do so, nor did they recognize dual citizenship. If he EVER WAS a US citizen, he renounced his citizenship at that time. Furthermore, BY HIS OWN WORDS he traveled to Pakistan in 1981. You could NOT do that at that time on a US passport. But "Law Enforcement" doesn't care. They bow and scrape before their Masters and then do whatever they're told. Which is why I thank God every time he removes another of them from office.
Dale Spencer | 2.26.10 @ 1:27PM
I agree, push is in motion for shove and the lust for power inebriates not just BHO, but also the OBAMANIACS. They are followers of riding the storm, much of which they create !
RAMIII| 2.22.10 @ 9:48AM
We are doomed, due to voter ignorance, MSM complicity, and devious, evil, power hungry men and women who have no conscience.
There is talk of currencies (EURO & USD) being worthless (consider debt of Greece and US). What do you all think will happen if these fail? Will these people really do the right things? Wink, Wink; Nod, Nod.
Read the book of Revelation and see what it says.
james| 2.22.10 @ 9:56AM
Without having checked, I'll bet my worthless jumbo mortgage that the NY Times has never mentioned this story, and won't unless someone is frog-marched across the Mall.
Howard Ino| 2.22.10 @ 9:59AM
Corruption of the corrupt!
This Administration and Congress have no regard or intent to abide by the laws of the United States!
It is now time for a Special Prosecutor to defend the Constitution of our great nation. The Democrats will not order such, so we must wait until January 2011!
Mark| 2.26.10 @ 12:58PM
The Donkeys-In-Elephant-Suits will not order a Special Prosecutor, either. While there may be less discoverable people in Congress following this year's elections, the sewage will still be a clear majority. In BOTH houses.
Mark| 2.26.10 @ 1:02PM
NEVER accept a spelling correction suggestion without reading it closely. Dishonorable, not discoverable. No discovery is needed with the current and likely future people in Congress. They are what they are, and it sure ain't pretty!
Rudy| 2.22.10 @ 10:05AM
Even The Onion has had a field day with the press' unwillingness to investigate suspicious behavior in this administration:
http://www.theonion.com/conten.....ding_right
loulou| 2.22.10 @ 10:10AM
Nothing will happen because of the chinless wonder, Eric Holder in charge at Justice. What a travesty.
Missy| 2.23.10 @ 10:00PM
'Chinless wonder' LOL!
Dale Spencer | 2.26.10 @ 1:35PM
Speaking of chinless wonders, Rahm Emanuel is technically an ISRAELI, yet he will be the first one in line to deny that country !
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OMERTA!
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"president had broad authority to set aside constitutional rights." - Page 3 - Benzwo links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Dan D| 2.22.10 @ 11:32AM
This is small beans, and will not have serious traction. Politics gets done this way all the time, neither party is blameless in that regard. It's not even Chicago-level corruption, and it is hardly atypical of the party bosses in Pennsylvania. There are plenty of real, flagrant abuses to be more worked up about.
Mr Lord, do you think clearing the field for Tom Corbett was done under the Marquis of Queensberry rules? Hardly
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Yosemeti Sam| 2.22.10 @ 11:48AM
Ever alert to Democrat machiavellianism -
is the LBSM PEN1.
Right?
Left(ist) backwater stream media - public enemy
#1.
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John K| 2.22.10 @ 12:32PM
It's ironic that Specter is the man who came up with the "single bullet theory" to enable the cover up of JFK's death. I agree that the corrupt old monster needs to be retired at the earliest possible opportunity.
cuffs| 2.22.10 @ 1:05PM
Impeachment, anyone?????
hangman| 2.22.10 @ 3:57PM
impeach-YES !!!
impeach-NOW !!!
impeach befor its to late !!!!!!!!!
rak offshore company | 11.21.10 @ 5:36PM
Why shouldn´t be there an impeachment?
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sestamibi| 2.22.10 @ 1:20PM
I liked Jim Messina better when he was still playing with Kenny Loggins.
Franklin| 2.22.10 @ 1:39PM
I just emailed this story to all of the MSM I could think of.
JPL17| 2.22.10 @ 1:48PM
Let us know when they write back...not holding my breath...
Everly Waverly| 2.22.10 @ 1:42PM
If Black Panther thugs with clubs at a polling place, on video, essentially convicted and with those charges being dropped by the "black centric" Attorney General, what will convince Holder to investigate this mess?
Can ya imagine the fuss if this were a republican administration involved in this, the MSM would be Woodward and Bernstein reincarnated.
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Dano| 2.22.10 @ 1:49PM
Where's the NYT, CNN, NBC, ABC, and CBS reporting..... :)
hangnan| 2.22.10 @ 4:08PM
waiting for obamas orders !!
Alex V.| 2.22.10 @ 2:23PM
but its BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA mmm mmm mmm! he could do no wrong. After all, he is the messiah. right? just like someone mentioned, he is following in Hitler's footsteps, rigging the courts and even like Chavez more recently controlling the media in his country. The worst part is that here, in the US one could argue the MSM was not coerced into supporting the POTUS. maybe. mmmmmmmm... ok fine i give up
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bklackwatch| 2.22.10 @ 2:50PM
..NOW WAAAAAAAIIIIIIT A MINUTE...
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L.N. Smithee | 2.22.10 @ 3:10PM
Remember that David Plouffe allegedly remarked in early May 2009 that former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman was somehow the biggest threat to Obama's re-election in 2012. So what happened within two weeks? The Mandarin-speaking former LDS missionary to Taiwan with a 10-year-old daughter adopted out of China was given an offer he can't refuse by the Obamastration: The ambassadorship to the PRC. Bye-bye, Salt Lake, hello Beijing, and never mind the White House, at least until his new boss - Obama - leaves the building.
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Oldefarte| 2.22.10 @ 3:23PM
This might be the next WATERGATE, and, in the process, rescue to country from THE CHICAGO WAY!!!!
ted c| 2.22.10 @ 3:26PM
Since he's a Navy Admiral, can we call this "Squid Pro Quo?"
Martin Gray| 2.22.10 @ 4:28PM
Sounds like my old CO we called him Captain Tuna - The Chiken of the Sea!
Periwinkel| 2.22.10 @ 3:29PM
This is the Chicago way...only they manage to get money out of it, too!
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Quid mi anxious sum?| 2.22.10 @ 4:15PM
High crimes or misdemeanors?
fedupwidit| 2.22.10 @ 4:15PM
does this really surprise anyone? Obama is so crooked they are gonna have to screw him in the ground when he dies. Congress is the biggest den of thieves out there! Arlen Specter needs to take his mean hornery old magic bullet butt back to PA. and spend the rest of his years on his front porch playing checkers and shouting at lttle kids riding by!
tyrone| 2.22.10 @ 4:20PM
THIS ADMINISTRATION IS THE WORSE NO GOOD BUNCH OF ANTI AMERICAN CRIMINALS EVER TO DEFILE THE WHITE HOUSE...EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM STARTING WITH THE HEAD CRIMINAL HIMSELF SHOULD BE BOOTED OUT OF OFFICE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND HONEST AMERICANS SHOULD NEVER FORGET HOW EASY IT WAS FOR THESE SLIMY GREEDY PIECES OF DOG EXCEMENT TO LIE TO THE PEOPLE AND SLIP INTO WASHINGTON AND START THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA.
Martin Gray| 2.22.10 @ 4:26PM
Move over Roland Burris.
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fwb| 2.22.10 @ 6:08PM
I glad it's a federal crime. No point to the specific grnat of power that gives Congress the authority to make this issue a crime.
You cannot find it because Congress is not empowered to make this a crime.
Read your Constitution.
fwb| 2.22.10 @ 6:09PM
Typo: "No point..." should have been "Now Point..."
King David II| 2.26.10 @ 10:32AM
It could be a crime under the U.S. Constitution under high crimes and misdomenors (sp), under misdomeners (sp), which can mean almost anything congress wants it to mean,
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The Barry Soetoro Dossier (Multiple SS Numbers and other assorted things) links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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2010 Election Bombshell: White House Has Violated Federal Election Law - TurboBuick. links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Phil Cobbin | 2.22.10 @ 7:35PM
So... how about introduction of a resolution or bill for a house investigation to see if there are grounds for the house to impeach the sitting president...
Sounds like fun. And the definition of fun is those other guys don't like the definition of fun....
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Shawn| 2.22.10 @ 9:35PM
I cannot believe that it has taken so long for people to penetrate the "wool" and see the "wolf" in the Whitehouse. Much more, the Judicial Branch of our government is "stalling" at every opportunity confront this "person" Barak Obama, the first being an investigation into his backround and birth place. Corruption in the U.S. gov. starts at the very top and rolls downhill, the odor is worse than "stinky stuff" we flush down our toilets.
George True| 2.22.10 @ 10:26PM
Warning: Off-topic post follows. COuld anyone answer a question for me. Just what in the HE** is a "pingback"? And why the HE** is the American Spectator forum so infested with them??? I have emailed the webmasters of TAS several times imploring them to do something about it and have never heard anything back except crickets chirping. I rarely see pingbacks (whatever they may be) on any other internet forum, and when I do, I never see scores of them like I do here. What gives?!?!?! Anybody??? Buehler???
Joanne| 2.23.10 @ 4:52PM
George, I believe the pings are from people on their cell phone, like with Twitter, etc. I can't say for SURE but I think that's what they are from. And YES....they are ridiculous! God Bless! ;o)
Swink| 2.22.10 @ 10:57PM
Excellent article. However, can someone please tell me WHY this needs to be spread over four entire pages? Can we not just print it on one page? PJMedia does the same thing, although they do offer a 'show on one page' option, but why do I need to tell you that? If I am interested enough to click on the article, then GIVE IT TO ME.
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Obama Bribery Scandal Could Land White House Staffers in Jail | Conservative American links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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kayla9536| 2.23.10 @ 1:32AM
So..., when are the charges going to be filed by U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak? I would love to know who is going to be the attorney that sues the Administration.
kayla9536| 2.23.10 @ 1:57AM
Better yet..., I would actually love to see this happen and who would be brave enough to carry it through completely?
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DEL| 2.23.10 @ 7:49AM
Artical 2 Section 4
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Seapuss| 2.23.10 @ 10:33AM
I'm as conservative as they come, but I'm not sure I buy the legal argument here. The statute seems designed to prohibit taking bribes in exchange for arranging someone's appointment to federal office. I don't think political favors, such as refraining from running in a political primary, would qualify as a "thing of value" within the meaning of the statute. After all, promising a Cabinet post (for example) in exchange for a political endorsement is a time-honored tradition. I don't think this supposed "scandal" will go anywhere.
Seneca| 3.17.10 @ 7:29PM
I was wondering whether anyone else here was taking the time to actually think about what the statute says. Clearly if Sestak had given the "thing of value" here (his agreement to drop out so as to clear the way for Specter), that would violate the law. But, read carefully, the statute also prohibits the mere SOLICITATION of Sestak's concession, when that solicitation is coupled with the promise to secure for him an ambassadorship or other federal office.
Yosemeti Sam| 2.23.10 @ 10:44AM
Re column - "Is our Children Learning?"
To American Spectator:
Appears I strike Liberal/Leftist nerves.
Do you or do you not validate email addresses
with posts?
You let an asshole - pardon the shorthand -
speak as if he were me.
Get your AS act together!
Do you have hacker firewalls - at all?
If not - moving on!
AS Webmaster - what's up with this compromise?
lycan| 2.23.10 @ 11:35AM
kick the fresh prince of kenya out. his corruption is now a monster. his west wing is full of the obama mafia. all friends from his chicago thug days. and the hiring of government employees who were once employed by terrorists is treason. impeachment is imperative. he is destroying our country every day he is allowed to stay here. he has yet to prove his citizenship.
lycan| 2.23.10 @ 11:48AM
Monday 2/22/2010: in Dallas, Tx. absentee voters report to the authorities a man showing up at their residence with absentee ballots a week before they actually recieved the "legal" ballots in their mail.
this man lies and tells them how to fill out their ballots and then takes them and files at least 18 in one day with the county & precinct. the legal ballots arrive a week later and this same man shows up again giving different instructions. this is your obama government at work furthering their corruption by chicago tactics. HE MUST BE
IMPEACHED NOW !!!!!!! this is how he got elected as president.
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White House Accused of Using Bribery to Preserve Senate Majority - ValueMD Medical S links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Robert| 2.23.10 @ 12:21PM
Was Andrew Johnson impeached on a similar charge?
Mark| 2.26.10 @ 9:45AM
Were Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in charge of Congress when Andrew Johnson was impeached? Do you REALLY think that impeachment is a credible option, with what is in the legislature?
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toledofan| 2.23.10 @ 2:27PM
This won't get any traction because it'll hurt or could hurt Obama. The press isn't going to rock the boat, so, this will go no where. It's too bad because I'm sure many other favors have been granted to some of the folks leaving or retiring.
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Joanne| 2.23.10 @ 5:09PM
I told everyone I could before the election that IF O'b won he would RUIN THIS COUNTRY. And he's busy trying to do so as I type. The sad truth is that even if O'b was out of office and the Reps take over the House and Senate we citizens would STILL be 'governed by' corruption. We've strayed too far from our foundation(s) for ANY hope of a gov. that is honest, upright and worthy of being trusted. My husband has been a cynic for years and I found it impossible to give into his feelings. But sadly I've finally given up on the hope of EVER having an admirable government anymore. I do my best to participate in helping to elect the best out there. But sadly it seems even the 'best out there' end up giving into the evil that permeates Washington. I know, it's a downer. But it's the way I'm feeling right now. Maybe tomorrow I'll feel more hopeful...
If you wonder where all this negativity comes from..... I'm from ILLINOIS and have had to live with these crooks running Illinois all of my life. Even in Southern Illinois we have to deal with their corrupt tentacles. Someone earlier in this thread mentioned reading Revelation. I second that!
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nats| 2.23.10 @ 5:58PM
Is ther any branch of the gubermint and the checks and balances that isnt corrupt? i cant .
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Mark| 2.26.10 @ 9:35AM
Do you have ANY doubts that nobody in "Law Enforcement" will bother to investigate this?
LarryG| 2.26.10 @ 9:59AM
I have two points and I'll try to keep them short.
First, I grew up and still live in Oregon- Most of my contemporaries were raised around with firearms. November 22, 1963 was my fourth day in the Army to be followed by four years in the Infantry including Viet Nam. How would Specter know what bullets do? They don't change direction unless they hit something very hard. The single bullet theory is the product of ignorance or corruption. So, what can one think about this Sestak thing?
Second, what sort of flap are they going to invent as a cover story or diversion from their perfidy?
Transparency, indeed.
Bob From District 9| 2.26.10 @ 10:49AM
There is only one real answer to this. Repeal any statute of limitations on crimes involving federal elections, or crimes committed in office. Or at least extend them 10 years after the administration(s) involved leave office. That way when this administration leaves office we can go back and prosecute all those who have committed such crimes well after their protection is gone.
That way we may still see Katherine Harris sitting in a prison cell. Monica Goodling may yet be a guest of the gray bar motel. John O'Neil may yet find a comfortable cot to meditate on his lies.
And then the question, what did Cheney know and when did he know it. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith, and even GW Bush.
Yes, this fun can go on for years. I'm looking forward to it.
Daniel Burke| 2.26.10 @ 10:50AM
Of course, offering jobs, paying off opponents, running weak candidates to split voters are all Chicago-style corrupt political tactics which is all the Obeyme Administration knows. We are living in the AIC Administration: Arrogant, Incompetent, Corrupt.
MattZ| 2.26.10 @ 10:58AM
I think I know why this hasn't been reported in more "traditional" media outlets. What's your guess?
MZ
Tater Salad| 2.26.10 @ 11:18AM
If everyone remembers, the Obama administration has a bunch of crooks appointed to cabinet positions already running around the White House. They all act like they are above the law. Someone needs to serve some jail time in this case.
dl| 2.26.10 @ 1:42PM
Yikes - this is a gossippy tale. You sure enjoy the "what did he know and when did he know it?" line.
Jack Kinch(1uncle)| 2.26.10 @ 2:15PM
Courts make decisions based on those made in the past-whether good or not. Although the prisons are full of demos, few of the total are punished. No Lie Nobama is surrounded with tax cheats,Sick Willie Clinton, black panthers, on and on. Accept and vote them out.
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A pen| 2.26.10 @ 5:59PM
One whole year ! Now thats going to put the chill on corruption. Almost every illegal act a public official could do carries a sentence that in no way reflects the seriousness of the crime. I guess when you make the laws that will apply to you if you get caught it is best to keep them to a bare minimum just to show how much trust you should have. I guess the reality is we can't trust them anyway and prosecuting them is completely out of the reach of the people. So much for redress of grievances.
shipley130| 2.26.10 @ 8:28PM
I will state again what I have suggested before. Americans that don't want anymore of this socialist and Marixist nonsense need to start recording conversations or doing some undercover video.
yo harv| 2.28.10 @ 9:23PM
I do not hold the opinions of Jane Fonda against her.
If congress does not declare war (cowards), then is there a war?
I do think that she was a traitor when the US prisioners, thinking that an american would not betray them (as they have written about), she did betray them.
each prisoner slipped notes to jane when she went down the corridor for a propaganda shoot. on the notes they put their personal information for their families and the M.I.
jane walked back to the commander of the prison and dumped the small sheet of paper into his hand.
She never mentions this act of treason, but asks for forgiveness for her sitting at an ak ak gun.
I forgive you for that action.
do the prisoners that survived the beating and starvation forgive you? the ones that died cannot.
adios,
harv
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B. I. G. Deal| 3.2.10 @ 4:40PM
Whoop-do-doo. This will go nowhere, as you well know. Just another mudball to sling at Obama, the epitome of all evil. If we were gonna go there, we could put at least 50% of the elected officials in each party in jail. C'mon, all this manufactured outrage isn't even amusing anymore.
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Tom Sheridan| 4.6.10 @ 9:28PM
I'm with "Bob From District 9" - take away the statute of limitations for these crimes. And, in addition to any sentencing they receive (if found guilty), regardless of jail time, community service, or fines, they should be prohibited from holding any government position - even if they want to serve on their local town's beautification committee. As a Philadelphia injury lawyer it makes me sick to my stomach that we can't seem to run government, or corporations for that matter without corruption.
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Does ANY of this suprise you! Im not suprised one bit!! To bad, it's typical..
Central Ohio Home Builder | 12.12.10 @ 3:47PM
I am so sick of corruption in politics. I wish the American People would get rid of the corrupt politicians from both parties.
pink laundry basket | 12.26.10 @ 10:35AM
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