The Huge Scandal that probably won't be

There is a real problem with something done by the White House concerning upcoming elections that going very much under-reported: they tried to manipulate the elections. Many would say that this is just politics as usual, and therefore not a scandal at all. Except for the fact that what the White House did is a felony.

I think people have become too jaded, too accustomed to corruption such that we think it's business as usual.  But stop and think: do you really want your vote to count? Or do you prefer the thinking of Stalin: "It's not who gets the most votes, but who does the counting."

I'm talking about the White House's attempt to buy off Representative Joe Sestak.  The Democrats are so concerned about the midterm elections that they didn't want him running against the far-from-a-shoe-in Senator Arlen Spector. The White House, according to Sestak, offered him a high position in the government in exchange for his promise not to run against Spector.

In a normal sort of world, the outcome wouldn't matter, the two of them being in the same party.  However, Sestak has been critical of the Obama Administration and is opposed to the Obama-backed health care bill.

Wow, this is really HUGE stuff; maybe normal for Chicago, but not so for the free society we believe America to be.

Stay on top of this, and keep urging others to do the same. Keep on your elected officials, too, so it doesn't get buried in all the other trash put out by what now passes for "government."

FOXNews.com - GOP Lawmaker: White House Job Offer to Sestak Would Have Been a 'Crime'

A GOP lawmaker says that the White House committed a "crime" if it offered Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak a federal job in exchange for dropping his primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa.

"That would be a crime to offer anybody a federal job," Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told Fox News on Friday.

For example, the California Republican said it would be a crime if he offered a staff job to anyone to help him win an election.
"It's the same for the executive branch," he said. "You can't promise ambassadorships to contributors and even worse, you cannot manipulate the races by saying we'll give you something else if you drop out. You can't do it."

Sestak, who is aggravating Democratic leaders by challenging Specter for the Senate nomination in Pennsylvania, said last month that the White House dangled a federal job in front of him last summer in an attempt to entice him to drop out of the state's Democratic primary.