Posted on 06/21/2010 5:48:27 PM PDT by jazusamo
The liberal media may have lost interest in the Obama administration's sleazy job offers to two potential Senate candidates, but the White House shouldn't breathe too easily just yet. Republican congressmen and alternative media remain on the hunt for answers, and for justice.
The White House acknowledged dangling potential jobs to Democratic candidates Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania and Andrew Romanoff in Colorado while trying to persuade each to drop primary challenges against the administration's favored incumbent senators. The White House said it used former President Bill Clinton as an intermediary for the benefit of Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter. For the sake of Colorado's Michael Bennet, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina sent an e-mail listing three specific jobs Mr. Romanoff might receive if he would abandon the race.
In both cases, White House counsel Robert F. Bauer said he conducted an internal investigation and blithely assured the world that no laws were broken. How reassuring. Never mind that the various stories of the people involved didn't always mesh or that a number of legal experts said the offers were illegal "on their face." And never mind that Mr. Bauer was precisely the wrong person to conduct such an investigation.
"At worst, [Mr. Bauer's interference] impeded any legitimate Justice Department investigation, harmed the cause of justice and reinforced public disgust with Washington," wrote William A. Burck and David B. Rivkin Jr., both former Justice Department officials who also served in Republican White House counsel's offices, in a June 4 column. "The White House counsel is the president's principal legal adviser, but the role is not independent of the president or the White House," they informed.
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Pffftt. Sorry, Washington Times, but in the State-controlled media's world, there is nothing lower on the food chain than Republican congressmen and conservative alternative media (which includes the WT). This is going nowhere.
The only way ANY of the myriad Obama scandals goes anywhere is if the Republicans take over Congress and they get subpoena power. (If they have the guts to do it, which is doubtful). Even then, 99% of the American "media" will still side with their President.
If the compassionate, loving, intelligent, brilliant, really nice, a^^-kicking, Democrat-Progressives say there was nothing illegal done, then nothing illegal was done.
See? Simple, isn’t it?
/S/
(Vehr ahr yaw papuhs?)
IMHO
This is going nowhere in Washington, D.C., but it may backfire on Democrats in Pennsylvania and Colorado, and perhaps elsewhere. It’s just one more strike against Obama, who had promised a new kind of politics.
When the GOP takes Congress in November, there are going to be a ton of Congressional investigations.
....including Sestak-Romanoff.
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