Sounds Just Like Nixon

Gibbs Says. So it must be true, he'd never lie. Just like a real Obama birth certificate has been posted online.

This whole he said she said, story sounds too much like Nixon and the lost tapes. Nothin' happened. That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it. Uhhh to the best of my recollection of that particular time, that is.

The non denial, denial. There is one minor problem, Sestak who was the other party involved in the conversation, confirmed he was offered a job to take a dive and stay out of the Pennsylvania primary so Spector could run unopposed. Obama has gone a bridge too far. He's made one too many offers-in-kind. Pay for play is a violation of the law. Ask Illinois Ex Governor Blagovich. Blago wanted to sell the Illinois senate seat for $50,000. Obama wanted to pay Sestak, a retired admiral, with a federal job some speculate, as Secretary of the Navy. This is a violation of federal law, to offer or ask for some form of payment in order to secure a job.

Stonewalling. Imitating a Black Hole. The White House is going to be forced to come clean. Sestak has already crumbled by admitting wrong doing occurred, now it is only a matter of naming names. I do wonder if Sestak isn't extorting Obama. Someone is going to take a fall, Obama, Sestak or one of the upper White House staff. Sestak at worst will be branded a liar if he doesn't go the extortion route, and developes amnesia. It would very likely cost him the election.

If Sestak sticks to his story, someone will go to jail. This violation of the law has been set on the back burner, but Rep. Bachmann was very interested in learning the details of Sestak's allegation. I expect a 2010 post election investigation into this situation.

High crimes and Misdemeanors anyone?

Steve
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Updated May 23, 2010
White House Stays Mum on Sestak Job Offer

FOXNews.com

The White House continues to avoid discussing details on whether Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak was offered a job if he skipped the Pennsylvania
Senate primary but spokesman Robert Gibbs said Sunday that lawyers reviewed conversations and found "nothing inappropriate."

"I'm not a lawyer. But lawyers in the White House and others have looked into conversations that were had with Congressman Sestak. And nothing inappropriate happened," Gibbs told CBS' "Face the Nation."

"I'm not going to get further into what the conversations were. People that have looked into them assure me that they weren't inappropriate in any way," he said.

Sestak, a former Navy vice admiral who defeated Sen. Arlen Specter in the Democratic Senate primary last week, months ago said that the White House offered him a job to stay out of the race.

Sestak refused to bow out then, and still refuses to say now what job was offered.

"I was offered a job. I answered that," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press. "Anybody else has to decide for themselves what to say upon their role. And that's their responsibility."

Gibbs said Republicans continue to "dredge this up" because Pat Toomey, the GOP nominee challenging Sestak is "already behind in a very important Senate race."

The latest Rasmussen Reports poll taken one day after Tuesday's primary election showed Sestak leading Toomey 46-42 percent with 1 4.5 percent margin of error among 500 likely voters.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said if Sestak were offered a job, it would behoove the White House to "either corroborate that or call him a liar."

"Is it proper, ethical and legal for the White House to try to get a sitting member of Congress out of a race because they have other plans? I don't know. The White House has to answer the question," Steele said.