This afternoon I read this post at Flopping Aces, regarding a Congressman who was apparently bribed by President Obama in order to preserve Arlen Spector’s primary victory:
The Chicago way….
Here’s the story, Rep Joe Sestak (D-PA) reports that the White House offered him a high ranking job if he would drop his primary bid against Arlen Specter in the Senate race in Pennsylvania.
This is the second such allegation in the past few months. There is also a question as to whether such bribes constitute a violation of federal law.
Keep that in mind when you read the following, from The Weekly Standard:
Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he’s obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson’s brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Hat tip to Matt Drudge, via Mark Levin.
It has all the appearances of a desperate leader doing everything he can to make sure the main point on his agenda doesn’t come back to bite him. Obama wants the health care bill to pass, regardless of what the people want. And as Robert Gibbs said, “Whatever it takes to get health care done.”
So what do you make of this? Is this bribery? Is it unethical? Or is it a big coincidence?
