Please read this American Spectator piece.
The trouble with this Leftist White House is that it engages in so many illegal, unconstitutional, immoral things in a day that it’s tough to follow all of them with the care and attention they deserve.
While we’re all focused on the unconstitutional “Slaughter Slam” being attempted to ram Healthcare Rationing through without a vote in the House, more and more is coming out about the felonies committed in the West Wing regarding bribes made to Congressmen for political purposes. Specifically, the bribe to Joe Sestak to become Secretary of the Navy if he didn’t challenge Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania’s Democrat primary.
Someone is going to do jail time for that.
It could be Rahm Emanuel.
Whoever conceived, approved, proffered, and then deliberately set about a coverup of the bribe is going to jail.
According to Specter himself, anyone who KNEW about the bribe but did not report it is also guilty of a felony: ”misprison of a felony”, which means they did not report this matter to the authorities.
That means Press Secretary Robert Gibbs could be joining Emanuel in federal prison, too.
Could this have been Rahm’s plan all along? The expert kidnapping of Gibbs, whom Rahm’s always had a soft spot for (but Viagra usually takes care of that). So, Rahm sets up this sloppy, poorly concealed bribe knowing he’ll go to prison for it — and in prison, like he’s seen on Oz, he can finally escape the sham marriage and squealing kids to live the life he’s always dreamed of, which he can only approximate on dates with Secret Service agents in Washington. So, he sets up a chain of events that will send him to prison, where his cellmate will be his longtime crush, Gibbs. Then, they can be together, Keller and Beecher style, for 10-20.
Rahm Emanuel IS that devious and ruthless when he’s after something he wants.
But, we would have thought he’d try to snag Zac Ephron or one of the Jonas Brothers in something like this, not Gibbs, if only so the current president couldn’t have them for himself.
Above all else, Emanuel is certainly that spiteful.
March 16, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Please start leaving warnings – I was reading along and got to “Rahm’s always had a soft spot for…” and now I wonder what I can use to clean off my keyboard. :)
March 16, 2010 at 1:42 pm
I doubt any one would prosecute them, not in this whitehouse.
And the Kenyan Usurper would pardon him the 1st day.
March 16, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Gibbs as Rahm’s cellmate? I was rooting for John Edwards …
Or better yet, someday, George Soros.
March 16, 2010 at 2:25 pm
I want to see George Soros go to prison. He has committed a string of malfeasance around the world.
He is GOLDFINGER….watch the movie
March 16, 2010 at 7:59 pm
“No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die.”
March 16, 2010 at 5:21 pm
For Gibbs I just thought of the perfect cellmate: Michael Moore. The two would get on fabulously.
March 16, 2010 at 1:57 pm
…I just found out that Rahm used to go by the name of Johnny Dynamite a few years ago in Chicago:
http://lileks.com/institute/funny/10/181.html
March 16, 2010 at 2:04 pm
In assuming that name he must be scheming of some way to get a hold of Ricky Hollywood a.k.a. Levi Johnson’s johnson.
March 16, 2010 at 11:16 pm
I guess that’s because Cocktail Weinie was already taken.
March 16, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Like Lupina…I was reading your prose…and then…well…ya dished the Blue pill.
Oh my.
Well done Boyz. LOL…on a very, very serious subject. Trying to ‘find’ some local Pennsylvania ‘news’ on this to link to…but its almost like an information black out (rut roh, I know…RAAACIST)…here locally–and only a story in the blogosphere. Will post anything I find.
But…do you think THIS STORY is why the ‘Rahm’ thru is going full tilt? Like maybe, just maybe, the floodgates are going to open (WaterGate style?)
Right now Drudge has up, in RED the following:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/86969-clyburn-says-health-vote-could-delay-until-easter-holiday
Clyburn says ObamaCare could ‘push passed Easter.’ And NOT be the the ‘law of the land this Sunday’ as promised by Gibbsy…who might be needing pharms above and beyond little blue pills from all of this.
Fascinating, huh?
March 16, 2010 at 2:00 pm
This is why the White House is backing Specter over Sestak. The old fook knows how to make trouble for people.
March 16, 2010 at 2:24 pm
Specter knows where all the Republican bodies are buried…even worse.
March 16, 2010 at 2:32 pm
and Gibbs is acting like he will never be questioned about the matter or even be indicted.
Not cross lines? Exactly what is a bribe?
March 16, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Prepare for another round of what “is” is.
March 16, 2010 at 8:06 pm
That didn’t even work for Bill. He was impeached for lying under oath. And he was found guilty on that article. His penalty was to turn over his law license for a period of time – 5 years I believe.
Anyone who knows about a quid pro quo vote for a government job and doesn’t report it to law enforcement is guilty. Period. Gibbs is not the president, nor the former president of the US. And Dr. Utopia will not pardon any of them until his last day in office. Hell, he threw his sick elderly grandmother under the bus during the Church fiasco telling the press that she was “afraid of black men”.
He’s not going to save a one of them if it doesn’t help him in some way. Nixon could not keep Erlichman or Halderman from trial and being found guilty.
March 16, 2010 at 2:00 pm
http://dictionary.law.com/ is a great place to find legal terms. misprision of a felony
n. the crime of concealing another’s felony (serious crime) from law enforcement officers.
See also: felony accessory aid and abet
March 16, 2010 at 7:10 pm
The coverup generally causes more problems than the original crime.
March 16, 2010 at 2:14 pm
This one is bigger than the average breadbox with huge criminal implications if true.
And it isn’t something that you can just explain away as a political kickback or pork.
March 16, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Gibbs thinks that he is safe!!
March 16, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Glenn Beck describes this tactic of overwhelming the public with so much chaos and confusion…it’s part of the Cloward-Pivon strategy. Overwhelm the system…and it will eventually destroy the system and then they can start over with an “emergency order” with the government taking over completely. If you drive the economy into the ground and it collapses then everyone is dependent on the government. Ta-Da…a socialist state.
They use this strategy a lot. Haven’t you noticed how they will do something to piss everyone off then BAM! BAM! BAM! one thing after another everybody is scrambling and the media is going in 5 different directions so they can’t focus on one thing. Just watch …the closer it gets to a vote on this healthcare debacle the more “crises” we’ll have.
March 16, 2010 at 8:08 pm
Let us pray.
March 16, 2010 at 2:22 pm
I will gladly eat my words but this will go nowhere. The media will not report it as anything worth getting whipped up about, and Specter has the White House by the jewels if he knows any of this to be factual. You better believe he has worked some very sweet deal with this.
March 16, 2010 at 5:51 pm
I have to say that I agree. Somebody with teeth would have to pursue this; I’m not sure I see that happening. Any sense of moral outrage seems to have exhausted long ago. Hope I’m wrong…
March 16, 2010 at 2:24 pm
You know, I do believe I will need an entire room-sized stash of popcorn to have my salty and buttery goodness as I watch this entire set of fiascos unfold.
Should it be called comedy? tragedy? farce? Horror? Some bastard combination? Fargedy? Hormedy?
I also must admit to a certain evil amusement watchin this jobsgate evolve. Each administration really truly thinks “things are different this time” and that they do not need history as a guidepost and big old do and do not warning system. heehehehehe.
March 16, 2010 at 2:30 pm
its been nothing but a bluff..
..they dont have the votes..
they dont have the votes..
they dont have the votes..
where’s gibbs?
March 16, 2010 at 2:35 pm
He is watching the guy from Iraq to see how lying is done with ease….
March 16, 2010 at 8:09 pm
He’s got the hands in front of the chest movement down pat.
March 16, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Regretfully I feel that Arlen is slightly wrong on this one. Oh, how I wish it was just that easy. Misprision is a felony only if “a felonious act is concealed from a law enforcement officer”. In order to enact such charges a law enforcement officer would have to be actively “investigating” the comission of a felony.
No one in law enforcement is investigating anything. If they did, and Mr. Sestak concealed his knowledge, then he could indeed be guilty of misprision of a felony. However, absent of any investigation he suffers no consequence.
His is but a moral obligation to report at this point. However, if the Honorable (cough) Mr. Specter, continues to present Mr. Sestak with the knowledge of said crime; and Mr. Sestak continues to fail, or is reluctant to report, with the information that Mr. Specter presents, then he could be faced with charges of failing to report a felony of undue influence, coersion, or bribery of a public official.
What we need is an investigation to begin by the Dept. of Justice, or by act of congress.
March 16, 2010 at 2:52 pm
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00000004—-000-.html
This doesn’t say anything about concealing said felony from law enforcement.
No lawyer over here (and didn’t stay in a Holiday Express last night) but what you described sounds more like ‘obstruction of justice’.
March 16, 2010 at 3:11 pm
You are correct. I was speaking only to the “misprision” claim.
March 16, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Ha… like Eric Holder will do anything.
March 16, 2010 at 3:56 pm
Yeah, Holder is opening the investigation as we speak. s/off.
March 16, 2010 at 2:40 pm
When Dr. Utopia was elected I thought “great, another Jimmy Carter”. Now I realize I was wrong. Its much more like Richard “I am not a crook” Nixon, except I think there will be more members of the administration going to prison by the time it’s over and done.
March 16, 2010 at 2:52 pm
I think we have the worst of each in him.
March 16, 2010 at 2:56 pm
I really hope that isn’t true. I saw what happened to this country with Watergate and given the current political climate, we’re in a much worse position than back then. As well as knowing that there isn’t some Reagan waiting in the wings…
March 16, 2010 at 3:14 pm
You do the right thing because it is right. We didn’t know about Reagan. The BO WH makes Nixon look like a choirboy.
March 16, 2010 at 5:58 pm
I agree about Nixon. I only wish Nixon were president. Nixon was paranoid. Obama is malacious and power-hungry. He’s preying on the naivete and good will of the American people.
March 16, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Well, right around that time, Reagan was doing exactly what Sarah is doing now. Speaking out and supporting good conservative candidates. And the press was vilifying him, while Hollywood was laughing at him.
If for some reason BHO had to leave, Biden would be another reminder of how bad BHO’s decisions were, right from his choice of VP.
March 16, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Here’s the language in the US Code, Title 18, section 4:
Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
Intriguing…
March 16, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Source: Cornell Law
March 16, 2010 at 2:49 pm
Ahh yes, would it not be claimed as such that Mr. Specter posessing said knowledge, has this responsibility of reporting?
It would be difficult for the “Chairman of the Judicary Committee” to claim ignorance of the law. Particularily if he is informing Mr. Sestak of the potential for such violations.
March 16, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Not just him but ANYONE that knows about this from any angle.
The unfortunate thing for many of the potential parties involved is that so many of them have JDs so the assumption of knowing the law and going along with it is a given.
March 16, 2010 at 3:06 pm
JKR you are 100%. By nature of their profession and training they would/should/could be held to a higher standard of knowledge and expectation.
March 16, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Sundance, it’s sort of like the Martha Stewart thing. It would be one thing to hide behind ignorance because you’re a ‘business owner’ taking the advice of investment folks. Part of her problem is that she was a stockbroker in a previous incarnation.
Would be bad to know this stuff AND be a lawyer. Can’t hide behind ignorance.
March 16, 2010 at 2:40 pm
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4103213/did-white-house-try-to-bribe-sestak
Issa interview on Fox
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/13/gop-lawmaker-white-house-job-offer-sestak-crime/
Article on Foxnews
March 16, 2010 at 5:11 pm
betcha guitirez will get his way..
btw, not much mention of illegals in all the MSM.
March 16, 2010 at 2:46 pm
i *love* that term!
March 16, 2010 at 7:07 pm
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March 16, 2010 at 7:37 pm
I knew this sounded familiar. Remember over a year ago (on the Oprah Winfrey show, no less!) when Jill Biden let slip that Obama had offered Joe either VP or Secretary of State? Asking someone to join your campaign as VP isn’t a crime; offering someone a post (SecState) in your future administration in exchange for support most definitely IS.