{"id":5474,"date":"2010-05-27T13:14:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T17:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5474"},"modified":"2010-05-27T13:14:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T17:14:41","slug":"obama-sestak-offer-now-in-issas-crosshairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5474\/obama-sestak-offer-now-in-issas-crosshairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama-Sestak Offer Now in Issa&#8217;s Crosshairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Obama Administration and newly minted Senate candidate Joe Sestak (D-PA) won\u2019t discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2010\/05\/curious-case-joe-sestak\" target=\"_blank\">Sestak\u2019s February allegation<\/a> that a White House official offered him a job not to primary party-switching Arlen Specter, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/100067-issa-sestak-scandal-could-be-obamas-watergate \" target=\"_blank\">looking into the matter<\/a>.\u00a0 As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54\/577-the-corruption-stops-here-darrell-issas-war-on-democratic-overreach- \" target=\"_blank\">CFIF readers remember<\/a>, Issa\u2019s interest is not desired by most people in public life.\u00a0 The conservative foil to liberal Investigator-in-Chief Henry Waxman (D-CA), Issa is now comparing the Obama-Sestak offer to the Watergate fiasco.<\/p>\n<p>That may be going a bit far, but the facts \u2013 and the stonewalling \u2013 are at least as important to uncover as the Valerie Plame Affair.\u00a0 In that case, the Vice President\u2019s Chief of Staff was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/17479718\/ \" target=\"_blank\">convicted of four felonies<\/a> for lying to federal agents and obstructing their investigation.\u00a0 Notice any similarities with Press Secretary Robert Gibbs\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/InsideCover\/US-White-House-Sestak\/2010\/05\/23\/id\/359868\" target=\"_blank\">refusal to comment<\/a>, and the White House declining to appoint an independent investigator?<\/p>\n<p>It sounds old to keep comparing how the media would be covering Obama\u2019s actions if done by Bush, but the contrasts are still striking.\u00a0 This is now the second time <a href=\"http:\/\/uspolitics.about.com\/od\/electionissues\/tp\/blagojevich_scandal.htm \" target=\"_blank\">potentially illegal negotiations<\/a> over a United States Senate seat have been linked to Obama\u2019s White House.\u00a0 The first instance cost Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich his job and may yet lead to a prison sentence.\u00a0 Now, another round of Chicago-style deal making may imperil Joe Sestak\u2019s senate campaign.\u00a0 At some point, you\u2019d think lower level Democrats would start reconsidering their allegiance to a president who clearly favors backroom deals to open electoral processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Obama Administration and newly minted Senate candidate Joe Sestak (D-PA) won\u2019t discuss Sestak\u2019s February allegation that a White House official offered him a job not to primary party-switching Arlen Specter, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is looking into the matter.\u00a0 As CFIF readers remember, Issa\u2019s interest is not desired by most people in public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,1315,150,1308,1318,933,1317,1316],"class_list":["post-5474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-chicago-politics","tag-darrell-issa","tag-joe-sestak","tag-obstruction-of-justice","tag-rod-blagojevich","tag-scooter-libby","tag-valerie-plame-affair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5474"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5479,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions\/5479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}