GOP renew call for probe of WH job offers

[sabra]

Source: Chicago Trib

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday again called for an independent investigation into the White House actions in trying to protect incumbent senators facing tough Democratic primaries.

In a letter to Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr., the Republicans argue that recent reports of the White House's role in primaries in Pennsylvania and Colorado "have created new suspicion and a new set of questions. We do not believe this suspicion or these questions will diminish until a proper investigation clears the air and restores the public's confidence."

The letter was signed by Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the committee's ranking member, and six other Republicans.

The White House has acknowledged that it asked former President Clinton to approach Rep. Joe Sestak to discuss an unpaid job with the administration if he decided to remain in his House seat. Sestak, who says he cut off discussion about any job offer, went on to beat Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania's Democratic primary.

Read more: http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2010/06/gop_renew_call_for_probe_of_wh.html

[kirby]

1. Yawn...

I guess with the fishing season closed in the Gulf, the GOP wants a fishing expedition in Washington?

[aquart]

2. When they could have been removing oil from our beaches.

[lamp_shade]

3. Maybe they just don't want this to turn into another "what ever happened to.....?"

So they give a little nudge now and then so it's only "mostly dead".

[KansDem]

4. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

:boring:

[No Elephants]

5. IMO, primary voters should decide primaries, But this is ridiculous and the rethugs know it,

I'm guessing most Presidents/Parties/ccandidates have done something similar.


Ludicrous waste of time, energy and money, Sessions. Sit down and shut up.

[Kingofalldems]

6. Only if we get to probe the Cheney Energy Forum

[onehandle]

7. Onehandle renews call for WH to ignore GOP. nt

[Tempest]

8. Didn't the Bush administration do the same thing?

Where were the cries from the right wing hypocrites then?

[Politicalboi]

23. As my brother says

"Bush is not the President anymore" LOL! See the Repukes have an answer for everything. My brother thinks this is going somewhere. LOL! I laughed at him. Told him Raygun did it and what Raygun did was actually illegal. So now I'm making excuses because the Repukes did it. I told him, but you guys NEVER said a WORD. There's no talking to these assholes.

[Grassy Knoll]

9. .

[yellowcanine]

10. Republicans just like to probe things, it seems. Why is that?

[izquierdista]

11. Because if people get job offers

Then the economy is improving and Obama is not failing.... WAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

12. Because if at first you don't succeed...toss it out again in the middle of an epic national disaster

This time you're sure to garner some outrage. Not.

Who is in charge over there? Whoever it is, they're an idiot with no sense of timing.

[SpiralHawk]

13. Republicons are the ultimate in Wide-stance Hypocritical Wank-offery

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[Wizard777]

14. Nope! Shut 'em down.

[Mr. Sparkle]

15. These will become the norm after the november elections! n/t

[activa8tr]

16. I guess they ran out of things to complain about, so let's play a

broken record, over and over again.

[MisterP]

17. fine, but only if all such moves (which admittedly are as dangerous to democracy as bossism)

are investigated regardless of the President's party

unless Dems are now fine with undermining a primary so that the elitists who only care about the corporations which have been reaming us for decades, and who's usually doing worse off against the Republican candidate--but, for all their prefering of form (winning an election) over function (passing non-crap bills), conservadems would MUCH rather work with a Republican than with a progressive! (which is also why they always howl about Nader '00 but are mum or cooperative on Jeb '00 and Katherine Harris '00, unless it's to use them as boogeymen) they adore "centrism" as All-American and counsel of patience over activism and icky agitation

you know what they say about revolution being the only option when reform is impossible--and there's only so many times the Loyalist Brigades can tell us to work within the party and do primaries instead of agitating for third second parties

[cowman]

18. I agree

investigate them all regardless of party affiliation

[Bandit]

19. I am almost positive this is connected in some manner to Clinton's cock...

Get that investigation on right fucking now.....

[Hawkeye-X]

20. Go hold hearings in that broom closet of yours.

We'll just shut down the electricity there.

This is a non-story, and polling confirms it.

[Bitwit1234]

21. It's been posted over and over..SO

they should say OK we will but first, since we have about six instances where Rove tried to coerce people to not run in favor of someone else, and Cheney intervening in the Pawlenty,Coleman senate race getting Pawlenty to drop out in favor of Coleman, we think we should start there. We'll check out all the Rove and Cheney interferences and then move on to the White House and Sestak after we probe those instances. Think that will shut Isaa up.

[bc3000]

22. There's only one response to this: Charge Bush and Cheney for torture.

[howmad1]

25. No way!

If that happens, O'bama might be accused of looking back. Can't have that happen on his watch.

[2Design]

24. doesn't that alabama senator have a disaster in his state to take care of n/t

[madrchsod]

26. that`s all they got? wow...pretty thin pick`ns

[JDPriestly]

27. Am I missing something? Don't politicians offer jobs for reasons

of political strategy all the time? I don't see anything unusual about this. Am I missing some important ethical value on this?

Obama's appointments are subject to Senate approval. He can appoint anyone he wants. If the person accepts, and Congress learns that the person was not qualified for the job but offered it for some political reason, then there is a question. I think that this may have happened with some of Bush's appointments of attorneys and firings of attorneys in his Justice Department.

I don't quite understand what Republicans are driving at on this.