Republican Senators Call for Special Prosecutor in Sestak Case

Source: The AtlanticWire

Wednesday, all seven Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee called for a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate an alleged White House attempt to influence a Senate Democratic primary race. Representative Joe Sestak, who won the primary, has claimed that the White House offered him a job in exchange for dropping out of the race, in which he was competing with Arlen Specter. The Republican senators, as well as others who have been gunning for a prosecution, say that, if true, the administration may have broken the law.

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destroying the constitution and breaking the law?

had five instances where they asked people not to run for a specific office so someone else could have it. I think that someone should print out all those instances involving the Bush administration and rove the turd blossom and email or send them to this republican. Ask him should they start with Bush and Rove and then work down to Sestak.

for the most part. Oh, there were some theatrics and "hearings," but nothing of consequence.

I am curious to see if their actually able to push through this garbage. It's the same kind of trumped up BS they used to drag Clinton through the mud.

because there's no way to know or guarantee what the outcome of the race will be. In other words, the senatorial seat was neither Obama's, Spector's or Sestak's to sell, so no deal was struck.

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rocktivity

P.S.

And if it is illegal, then every pol in the Beltway is guilty.

In any case, it's another stupid witch hunt.

that Republicans thought that Special Prosecutors should never be used?

Fuck em' laugh at the impotent rage and play all the tapes of them claiming that torture memos don't warrant a special prosecutor.

This kerfuffle is thanks to Sestak.

the ammunition that can be used on their corrupt legacy too.

because the Dems will be "keeping their powder dry."

but, I don't think they'll be so foolish as to do nothing.

The Republican legacy is ripe with corruption.

The Republithug goal is to say that it might be enough times in order to sow enough doubt in Penn. voters to promote the notion that Pres. did act. illegally.

The whole thing is absurd. A president offers a member of his party a "political/administrative" job to get him out of a race with an incumbent he supports???

Patronage is as old as democracy itself, and has always been a favorite tool of all politicians in power to get other politicians to cooperate with their overall plan/agenda.

That is politics 101. It's very normal. It's classic political haggling.

Even if pressure is involved it's still VERY normal.

Of course the Repulithugs and their TeaTard supporters want to make it seem like it was some sort of physical threat which would might make it so, but only Joe would be able to say yes or no, and he's said no.

Every politician whose ever supported anyone and sat or sits in a position of authority has done this sort of bargaining.

The White House needs to step out in front and say unequivocally that this sort of "political bargaining" is the NORM, and is part of the political process.

People who think otherwise are naive, and need to get a basic education on the political process and civics.

There is no wrong elements about a president doing this.

It's the stuff of every political discussions everywhere by each party as leaders try to shape the best overall team to gain or keep the majority in an upcoming election.

The Republicans do something similar when each time they try to talk a TeaTard candidate out of running - in return for dropping out some sort of politically related quid pro quo is offered as an incitement.

The fact that the president's team participates does NOT make it suddenly illegal or improper.

As leader of his party the President is going to be the #1 go to guy to get recalcitrant party members to bend to the will of the national party, succeed or fail.Bush/Cheney certainly had no qualms about doing the same thing, and it wasn't illegal then and it is not now.

The attempt to get someone to do something has to go pretty far into physical coercion or blackmail before the legality becomes questionable.

Their attempts to make it a sort of an "attempted bribery" are idiotic and meaningless.

First off bribery is most often used to circumvent a law, or do something inherently illegal.

Neither of these are applicable here.

If they were then the whole political process involving bargaining at its most basic would become illegal.

The Democrats should get a head start on them and start investigationg everything the repugs did since the year 2000 as come November, there are going to be a lot of this worth less investigations about the Democrats.

Offering a job,this is an outrage.

happy family. Our guy is incompetent in this environment. He gets rolled from all sides, and the People he conned continue to get no service, but lip.

This is what happens when everything is refined into politics, after public service, patriotism, and statesmanship have been factored away. Everything is historic an nothing gets done, while those that know what they want, legal or not, get to take it from a confused and inept government.

and one that Sestak seems to be fully qualified for.

I hadn't heard that Sestak actually stated that it was in return for dropping out of the race. He simply stated that he was offered a job. What the hell is the big deal? And since he didn't drop out of the race, isn't this a moot point? Isn't this a little far-reaching?

Come on now, it wasn't like Sestak has been a busboy his entire life, then offered some high ranking position that he was nowhere near qualified for.

This is simply a ridiculous non-issue.

and I hope someone in the administration says it just like that.

- to prove that nothing was improper. Egg on their faces - not ours.