Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s chief of staff, used former President Bill Clinton to see if Rep. Joe Sestak would drop out of Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate primary if he were to be given a prominent, but unpaid, advisory position.

Sestak said publicly last February that he had been offered a job from the White House, but for three months the White House  has refused to discuss the matter at all. Now, in the face of intense pressure on the part of Republicans, and in particular Representative Darrell Issa of California, they have admitted that they actually did make Sestak the offer.

Darrell Issa, the senior Republican on the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee, said the events described by the
White House “represent an illegal quid pro quo,” even if the position
was unpaid.

Issa went on to say “It is abundantly clear that this kind of conduct is
contrary to President Obama’s pledge to change ‘business as usual’ and that his administration has engaged in the kind of political
shenanigans he once campaigned to end.”

According to federal law, it is a crime for anyone to either directly or indirectly, promise any employment, position, compensation, contract, appointment, or any other benefit to someone as consideration, favor, or reward for any political activity or for the support of or opposition to any candidate or any political party in connection with any general or special election to any political office.

The law says that it is also illegal for a government official to use his official authority for the purpose of interfering with, or affecting, the nomination or the election of any candidate for office.

After three months, it amazes me that Team Obama could not come up with a better story… can anyone really believe that Sestak would really consider not running for a job that was "unpaid"?

The Alice in Wonderland tale is more plausible to me than that. Their lame statement is only further evidence of the thinking process of the typical deceived and deceiving "progressive" clowns, but then what can you expect of people who still believe in global warming?

Progressives all seem to have one trait in common: they very mistakenly think of themselves as wise, and that those who do not share their earth, sun and moon-worship faith are somehow below them in I.Q.

Too bad there isn’t some way to make Romans 1:22 required reading for anyone showing advanced symptoms of Progressive "thinking".

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools…. Romans 1:22