Per faux newz' hannity and morris, sestak job offer is now an 'impeachable offense'

[babylonsister]

:rofl: There's just one small problem with that...

Morris fabricates "impeachable offense" out of alleged Sestak job offer
May 25, 2010 5:57 pm ET — 17 Comments


Fox News' Dick Morris' baselessly claimed that an alleged job offer by the Obama administration to Rep. Joe Sestak would constitute an "impeachable offense." However, the Reagan administration reportedly made a similar offer to a candidate, and legal experts have rejected the claims that such offers are illegal.

Morris baselessly claims alleged job offer was "clearly a violation of law"

Morris: "Joe Sestak is either lying or the White House committed a crime." During an appearance on Sean Hannity's Fox News show, Morris baselessly claimed: "It is illegal to offer someone anything of importance or of value in return for a vote or a running or not running for office. Illegal." He added: "This is a straight prohibition against offering anything of value. Clearly a violation of law." Morris went on to say: "This scandal could be enormous. It's Valerie Plame, only 10 times bigger because it's illegal. And Joe Sestak is either lying or the White House committed a crime. He can't have it both ways." {Hannity, 5/24/10}

more...

http://mediamatters.org/research/201005250067

[shraby]

1. Doesn't he consider ambassadorships as job offers of value?

[flakey_foont]

2. remember them screaming impeachment

for the Attorneys whom the Bush Admin removed for political reason???? I sure don't.......... more Weasel Hannity hypocrisy

[Hawkeye-X]

3. So how's the toe-sucky thingy doing for you, Dickie?

*ptooey*

[joeybee12]

4. You knew this was coming...and Pelosi took impeachment OFF the table

for Bush who committed dozens (a low estimate) of impeachable offenses.

[POAS]

5. Wait for it... it won't be long before

the Dick Morris wannabes show up to flame this thread.

[babylonsister]

6. What scandal?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/05/what_scandal.html

What scandal?

By Dylan Matthews


Dave Weigel has pretty thoroughly debunked the meme that the Obama administration offered Rep. Joe Sestak the post of secretary of the Navy to prevent him from challenging Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Senate primary (a primary Sestak won last week). Ray Mabus was nominated to the position before Specter switched parties, and certainly before Sestak considered challenging him.

Still, Sestak's camp is insisting that the administration made some job offer, and so the story hasn't gone away just yet. Why it's supposed to be scandalous, though, is beyond me. The White House wasn't exactly shy about favoring Specter over Sestak, and it is not shocking to hear that the top Democrat in the nation wanted to avoid a divisive primary in an important Senate contest. One might think such an offer would politicize the position in question, but that's to be expected. It's a political appointment; its tainting by the Senate confirmation process prevents a process based purely on finding the best person for the job, so it's not as though the White House was corrupting a fair process by considering electoral politics.

More to the point, this politicization is only a problem if it results in cronies, or otherwise unqualified people, taking important positions. It's hard to imagine this being the case with any position Sestak would have been appointed to fill. A 30-year Navy veteran who reached the rank of vice admiral and spent two years on the House Armed Services Committee, like Sestak, is more than qualified to be secretary of the Navy. It's harder to evaluate Sestak's suitability for the post the White House actually offered him, as we don't know what it is, but there's not exactly a dearth of positions in the federal government for high-ranking former military officers. It may have looked scuzzy for Obama to offer Sestak a job to protect Specter, but it's hard to imagine it would hurt whatever department he would have been tapped to run.

-- Dylan Matthews is a student at Harvard and a researcher at The Washington Post.

[karynnj]

7. Very nice article

(The op article is hilarious - Outing Valerie Plame was NOT a crime - why was Scooter Libby convicted? The truth is there is no crime here.

[POAS]

8. It's a Democrat so by definition it's a scandal n/t

[jezebel]

9. I made a post about this last night. 2 nights ago he led with Morris and this claim and last night

Hannity had on Victoria Toensing (remember her from Clinton impeachment days?) and some other loser saying this was impeachable and they talked about if anyone would do jail time. They agreed it would be Rahm. They're batshit crazy, but God help Obama if the Republicans take the House in November. It will be subpoena time.

[Ozymanithrax]

10. Under Republicans, impeachment is a political act that has no relation to high crimes..

and misdemeanors. With some of them thinking they smell blood in the water and have a chance of retaking the house, they will ramp up the impeachment machine and investigate the Obama Administration in a search to find enough shit to stick to a wall.