11 Responses to Did Obama Attempt to Bribe a Congressman?

1. Art says: 1

   What does it matter if he is breaking the law with his bribes? Who is there to investigate and prosecute? No one. Do you really think that the pompous and snooty Holder would take such a step? Do you think that the Congress would take it upon themselves to do that, when many of them have already committed prosecutable crimes and remain fat and happy in that pig sty behaving like an untouchable? Rangel is a perfect example of a porcine crook who motors on and on, just like a teflon pig.

   The question that many Americans are asking themselves is “Are we a nation of laws that apply to everyone?” No, we are not.

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   March 2, 2010 at 8:59 pm
2. bill-tb says: 2

   When does impeachment start? I bet America would be happy.

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   March 2, 2010 at 9:38 pm
3. Skookum says: 3

   Mike how about corrupt, incompetent, and un-American!

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   March 2, 2010 at 11:27 pm
4. Davey says: 4

   It wasn’t a bribe, it was a errrr ahhh mmm promotion.

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   March 3, 2010 at 2:59 am
5. Art says: 5

   Where’s ButtRub? You know, the one who actually believed that the O’Fraud actually graduated from Harvard Magna Cum Laude, actually? That is so, so funny – Magna Cum Laude,(?), yeah and I’m a Rhodes Scholar. I’m sure he has already been given the party line on how to deal with these legitimate accusations, and like a good Obot will begin making the rounds of the blogs, but you just don’t know if the money from the handlers is drying up. Soros could be wondering now about his investment. Did he ever imagine that Obama was such a dumb poop, or was that what Soros was counting on?

   I can’t believe McCain was so nice to him in the GE. WTF were you thinking, John?

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   March 3, 2010 at 4:10 am

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7. Mike's America says: 6

   Is that video player not working for the rest of you too? For some reason it’s not displaying correctly here. But I did add the link so you can go back to the source video.

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   March 3, 2010 at 6:35 am
8. Art says: 7

   No, Mike, it ain’t working for me. Good post anyway.

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   March 3, 2010 at 8:57 am
9. Liam says: 8

   its only a bribe if it were a republican. Its plain to see, that this is just an ‘incentives package’. And no, the video doesn’t work, but I saw it when it first happened on fox

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   March 3, 2010 at 9:06 am
10. Tom in CA says: 9

    BTW,

    Whatever happened to the Democratic loon Governor from Illinois?

    I thought he was so corrupt. What happened to his trial? All I see is him on reality shows. Nice gig. He gets dragged out of his home by men in black, the next day he has a radio show.

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    March 3, 2010 at 12:41 pm
11. Missy says: 10

    Update!

    There is also a question as to whether such bribes constitute a violation of federal law.

    Not according to Arlen Specter, it’s a felony punishable by jail.

    “There’s a crime called misprision of a felony. Misprision of a felony is when you don’t report a crime. So you’re getting into pretty deep areas here in these considerations.” — U.S. Senator Arlen Specter on March 12, 2010

    and:

    Moreover, the Justice Department has a handbook on the prosecution of election offenses published by the Criminal Division that it distributes to all of its federal prosecutors. That handbook specifies that prosecutors can also use 18 U.S.C. § 600 to prosecute corrupt public officials who use “government-funded jobs or programs to advance a partisan political agenda.”

    Unfortunately and not surprising:

    One former high-ranking Justice Department official, after telling me that there were indeed problems with the Department’s silence on this issue, said that in the current political climate at the Holder-run Justice Department, any Justice official who sought to go to Holder with thoughts of investigating Messina or his boss Rahm Emanuel or anyone else in the White House would have to have “brass balls.”

    Darel Issa has sent a letter to the White House counsel, Mr. Anita Dunn requesting an answer by, March 18, his questions:

    Here are Issa’s questions, as reported by Politico.com:

    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?

    Two incidents…the one this blog discusses involving Joe Sestak and another:

    ex-Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff if Romanoff dropped his planned primary challenge to incumbent U.S. Senator Michael Bennet. Romanoff refuses comment and runs anyway.

    None other than Rahm Emanuel and his deputy Jim Messina are suspected of doing the dirty work for the White House hoping to protect the democratic majority.

    Robert Gibbs has stonewalled this question in his press briefings five times, Jeffrey Lord compares this to Watergate when Ron Zeigler was questioned….if Gibbs doesn’t know, he’s not guilty thus, he doesn’t want to know because if he is aware of the circumstances surrounding two incidents and has not reported it, he could also face jail time.

    Six pages of time lines, those involved, etc. all very interesting:

    http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/16/specter-opens-door-on-white-ho

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    March 16, 2010 at 5:15 am