8 thoughts on “Whodunnit?”

  2. I don’t get why that’s unethical. We can’t get into policing the reasons people do or do not throw their hat in the ring.

  4. It’s bribery only if Sestak breached a duty.

    Does Sestak have a duty to run? no.

    Is it scummy beltway favor trading?

    yes

  5. There’s the crime of bribery, which arguably didn’t happen for a number of reasons (though his mere refusal to accept isn’t one of them). The angle Issa wants to work is the political offense of bribery by the Obama Maladministration, and Sestak’s failure to expose the whole truth of the attempt.

    I wouldn’t expect New Jersey or Illinois voters to look askance at a political candidate who helped cover up a politically embarrassing attempt by Obamarrhoids to clear the way for a party-switching near-zombie to win a twelfth term (or however many it would have been) but Pennsylvania voters might have a problem with it — especially considering how the contested primary actually worked out.

  6. While it might not be illegal, what was attempted was not all that different from what Blagojevich was doing, though from the buyer not the seller perspective. In essence, the administration was trying to buy a senate nomination for Specter by offering a job to his opponent. The voters in PA deserved better than to have their choice for Senator limited by the political expediency of the moment. The American people on the other hand, deserved better than to have (presumably well paying) government jobs handed out like booty by the piratical political class.

  7. We can’t get into policing the reasons people do or do not throw their hat in the ring.

    We don’t need to subject everything to the criminal justice system, but we can certainly police it informally. The MSM is not shy about focusing public scorn like a beam of coherent light at anyone of whom they disapprove.

  8. government jobs handed out like booty

    Standard operating procedure… and undermines voters so they can ignore them and pass any law they like regardless of how unpopular.

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