Sestak finally comes clean- maybe ***poll

[Tucker]

I had to turn the presser off. Seemed so rehearsed.

[jinxmchue]

All politics these days is rehearsed, but I think he's being truthful. 

[The Village Idiot]

All politics these days is rehearsed, but I think he's being truthful. 

which time?

When he was alluding to a federal crime by the President or now?

[Tucker]

Sestak has said on more than one occasion that he was offered a "High level position".  The claim is that the offer was for a unpaid position on a presidential advisory board.

Yeah, right.

[USA4ME]

Sestak has said on more than one occasion that he was offered a "High level position".  The claim is that the offer was for a unpaid position on a presidential advisory board.

Yeah, right.

I agree, because it makes no sense.  If you're going to try and entice someone not to run against a sitting Senator, then you've got to put something on the table that's worthy of consideration.  An "unpaid position on a presidential advisory board" does not meet that qualification, especially under the current administration.

The WH offered him something that was significant, Sestak started blabbing about it probably because he didn't know it was illegal for the WH to do that, and now they have to get Clinton to try and provide cover.  I want to know what future favor ole Bill's gonna call in for having to do this, because whatever it is, ole Billy's got Dear Leader by the gonads.

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[thundley4]

The sad thing is, this is good enough for the MSM, and the few DimRats in congress that were questioning it.  Now it will just be Fox News, and maybe a couple of GOP congress critters.

[Tucker]

I agree, because it makes no sense.  If you're going to try and entice someone not to run against a sitting Senator, then you've got to put something on the table that's worthy of consideration.  An "unpaid position on a presidential advisory board" does not meet that qualification, especially under the current administration.

The WH offered him something that was significant, Sestak started blabbing about it probably because he didn't know it was illegal for the WH to do that, and now they have to get Clinton to try and provide cover.  I want to know what future favor ole Bill's gonna call in for having to do this, because whatever it is, ole Billy's got Dear Leader by the gonads.

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Keep Hilary overseas for the next 2-1/2 years, maybe.

[thundley4]

Keep Hilary overseas for the next 2-1/2 years, maybe.

Or name Bill to some advisory panel where he has a couple of interns under his desk his charge.

[5412]

Hi,

Here is what Dick Morris sent out today on the subject.  It makes sense.

regards,
5412



SESTAK SCANDAL GROWS...AND STILL STINKS

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

Published on DickMorris.com on May 28, 2010
 
The New York Times revealed this afternoon that anonymous sources have informed it that Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel asked former President Bill Clinton to offer Congressman Joe Sestak a high but unpaid advisory post in the Administration if he would drop out of the Senate race against Senator Arlen Specter.  One post mentioned was service on the President's Intelligence Advisory Board.
 
The idea was to immunize Obama and Rahm from possible criminal prosecution by using Clinton, not a government employee, as a cut out and to keep the offer to an unpaid job in hopes of not running afoul of the federal bribery statute.
 
But these evasions will not blunt the force of the law.  If Clinton acted at Emanuel's request, he was Rahm's agent and the Chief of Staff is still on the hook.  And, an unpaid position is still "something of value" within the meaning of the bribery statute which prohibits the offering of something of value in return for a vote.
 
And, remember why they wanted Sestak out of the race.  The White House needed Specter's vote to kill filibusters and could only get it if he would switch parties, a move he conditioned on getting Sestak to drop out and assure him a clear field for the nomination of his new party.   So the bribe offer to Sestak was made by an agent of a government employee, it involved something of value, and it was to procure a vote in the Senate -- all the elements needed for a felony to have taken place.
 
In a previous column (read it at DickMorris.com) Dick and Fox News Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano suggest that Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett, now the Republican nominee for Governor, should empanel a grand jury to get to the bottom of this affair.  Today's revelation makes this ever more urgent.

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[DumbAss Tanker]

He's very glib in his explanation, but it doesn't completely square with what he had previously said.  The 'Job' that is involved in the current explanation is not in the White House, is not really a 'Job' but a hobby, and if Sestak remained in Congress (A key element of his 'Explanation') he apparently would not have been eligible to serve in in the appointment.  Then add in the fact that the only person who can verify the whole deal is a known and proven perjurer, Bill 'The Big Fat Liar' Clinton.

This stinks on ice.