Posted on 06/03/2010 5:03:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
Corruption: A presidency that promised to take the high road on ethics has veered off into scandal after scandal — Sestak, Romanoff, Blagojevich. Whatever happened to changing the ways of Washington?
'The American people elected a president who promised to change the status quo and business-as-usual practices of Washington," House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ranking Republican Darrell Issa of California and House Judiciary Committee ranking Republican Lamar Smith of Texas wrote this week in a letter to White House counsel Robert Bauer.
"Has this White House become a part of the establishment they once opposed?"
Bauer last week issued a page-and-a-half of evasive legalese to make the Rep. Joe Sestak job-offer scandal go away, but Issa and Smith are demanding specifics on whatever jobs the White House offered to the Pennsylvania lawmaker to entice him not to run for Arlen Specter's Senate seat in the Democratic primary last month.
The Republicans want legal documents, e-mails and telephone records regarding the overtures made to Sestak, as well as notes and transcripts of interviews involving White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, former President Clinton, Sestak's brother and campaign manager, and Sestak himself.
Bauer's memo admitted that Clinton was used as an intermediary to convince the maverick Democrat not to target Specter, who switched from Republican to Democrat several months after President Obama took office last year.
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Totally corrupt!
My favorite bumper sticker: “How long before you admit that Obama was a mistake?”
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