Drive By Bloggin’

Sorry folks for the limited content over the last few days. Unfortunately, I had to make some very serious deadlines in Real Time.  During the last few days there were several stories I wanted to comment on, but my Real Time obligations kept we away. So, stealing a page from our Lame-Stream Media with their drive by reporting, I am going to do a little drive by bloggin’

Buckle up and here we go.

White House Used Bill Clinton to Ask Sestak to Drop Out of Race

I still cannot believe what a political blunder this White House/ Sestak job offer is. This administration is all about the political, yet they so easily stepped into such a political mess. I have two thoughts about why this happened. First, I think they allowed the Chicago Way to over take political sensibilities. Second, I think Obama and the gang let their Chicago habits take over, because they have grown too confident in the media’s willingness to cover for them.

Given how the media is feeling a little ignored by Obama and their willingness to show some anger over the BP oil spill, counting on the media at this point maybe a little risky.

What is truly risky is involving Bill Clinton in this mess. The media despite their bad feelings, will try to push this story off the national headlines and allow it to only exist in the Pennsylvania race. Pat Toomey will no doubt keep this scandal alive in his race against Sestak. Bill Clinton, being an ex president, does have the ability to drag this story back to national headlines at anytime, simply by dropping a comment here or there. If the Clintons are still smarting from their loss to Obama, what better way to pay him back than to keep this story alive with a leak or two?

Parish official: BP shipped in workers for president's visit

Is this BP covering their ass before Obama arrived or is this BP helping Obama get that perfect photo-op?  I think the media may want to take Sarah Palin’s advice and looking into those BP donations to the Obama campaign. 

Given how terribly wrong this whole spill is going, it is high time we start figuring out who exactly is working for whom?

Joe McGinniss talks about why he moved in next to Sarah Palin

Both my BS Detector and my Hypocrisy Proximity Alarm both went off with this story. Only the most severe PDS sufferer could buy any of McGinniss’ nonsense. 

Washington Post: When a source told Joe McGinniss that he could rent the house next to Sarah Palin's Wasilla, Alaska, home, the author was sold.

A room at the Best Western, not far away, would have been prohibitively expensive. The landlord of this house, meanwhile, offered it to McGinniss for $1,500 per month after a friend of the author recommended him as a solid alternative to the other people asking about the property.

"She was talking to this mutual friend of ours and said, 'I've got to find someone we're comfortable with,' " McGinniss said Friday evening from the deck of the house -- a deck that became famous after Palin posted a photo of it on Facebook this week. " 'My biggest concern is the Palins' privacy, especially the children.' So this mutual friend said, 'Well, you know, I think you're in luck. Joe McGinniss is going to be coming back here, and you couldn't find a better guy, just the right sort of person to move in and guarantee their privacy.'"

What happened next, said McGinniss, came as a total surprise. He had planned to keep the news off the Internet and tell the Palins himself that he'd be their neighbor as he wrapped up his biography of the former governor.

Riiiiight. We are supposed to believe that old Joe is all innocent and everything.  Meanwhile the creep is really good friends will all of the creepy anti-Palin Alaskan bloggers. 

The Other McCain:  Remember Jesse Griffin, who masqueraded behind the “Gryphen” pseudonym as a vicious anti-Palin blogger and Trig-Truther? And remember how he lost his job at an Alaska elementary school after his identity was revealed and school officials learned how he’d beenpromoting pornography and masturbation on his blog (extreme language warning) while being paid by taxpayers to supervise young children?

Well, guess what? Joe McGinnis is a “huge fan” of Jesse Griffin, as confirmed by none other than . . . Jesse Griffin:

I found the table that our host Phil Munger had reserved for us and sat down with some of his other guests, who I did not know, but who turned out to be fans of both IM and Mudflats. (Oh did I mention that AKM was with me?)

Soon I was introduced to author Joe McGinniss, who is up here researching HIS Sarah Palin book, and who also turned out to be a huge fan of both AKM’s and I. (I swear I will NEVER get used to hearing that.)

– Jesse Griffin, a/k/a “Gryphen,” October 3, 2009

In case you didn’t get the reference, “IM” is Jesse’s “Immoral Minority” blog where he described his ironclad certainty that Sarah Palin’s fifth child “was not conceived in her uterus,” declared how much fun it is to “wank off” to amateur porn, advised youngsters that “your penis will respond more readily” if you practice by “watching porn on your computer.” and told the world that “it brings me joy to work with these children.”

You betcha!

When this porn-blogging Trig-Truther obsessive Palin-hater was forced to resign from Trailside Elementary School in Anchorage  in August 2009, it wasn’t exactly a secret. so why — two months later, in October 2009 – was Joe McGinniss raving about being a “huge fan” of Jesse Griffin’s Immoral Minority blog? Why is McGinniss laughing it up with Griffin at the “celebrity table” all night?

Via: The New York Times

Via: WhiteHouse.gov

Via: CNN

Via: The Washington Post

Via: The Other McCain

Obama’s Sestak problem is not going away

Joe Sestak isn’t fooling anyone with his half answer about being offered a job to drop out of his race against Specter. All seven Republicans on the Senate Judicial Committee are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint an independent prosecutor to look into the matter. 

We all know that seven Republicans asking anything of this partisan administration won’t amount to a hill of bean. However, liberal voices are starting to questions the White House/ Sestak offer.  Enter Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell, who by no stretch of the imagination could be considered anti-Obama, is asking for details into the job offer.

 The White House and Joe Sestak should explain what happened with the alleged job offer, Gov. Ed Rendell said Wednesday before a press conference on Capitol Hill. 

"I actually think the White House and Joe Sestak should be a little more detailed and put this behind them," Rendell said.

He said the issue of whether Sestak was offered a job in the Obama administration to get out of the primary race against Specter isn't on the forefront of voters' minds. But, he acknowledged that it is a distraction that will only linger if not addressed.

Rendell said he is sure nothing illegal went on, noting that such conversations have been "going on for decades."

He predicted that someone at the White House probably told Sestak that if he wanted to do something with his "terrific background in the military" there would likely be a job for him with the administration. But Rendell said he does not believe it was any kind of a bribe to get Sestak out of Specter's way.

Rendell is the latest among a growing list of people that include Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin and Republican candidate for Senate, Pat Toomey, who are pressuring Sestak to come out and say who offered the job and what it was.

Lefty blogger Greg Sargent from the Plum Line also would like clarification, albeit from the Sestak side of the equation:

Senate Republicans are now calling for a special prosecutor to look intoJoe Sestak's claim that the White House offered him a job in order to drop his primary challenge to Arlen Specter. On the merits, this seems silly: Good government experts say that what Sestak claims took place doesn't seem like a big deal.

But that doesn't change the fact that Sestak has played this too cute by half, and he needs to clean up this mess. He needs to clarify what exactly happened -- even if it's thoroughly uncontroversial. For his own good and for the sake of the Democratic Party.

Sestak let the cat’s head out of the bag. Robert Gibbs confirmed that the cat was peeking out. At this point both sides need to come clean and just say what is what and let the chips fall as the may. The current situation where Sestak says he got a job offer and the administration says yeah but it was legal leaves out way too much detail to end the speculation. Both parties have to come clean or Sestak could go down and Republicans will have something to look into when they get control.

Already Rep. Darryl Issa has raised The Impeachment issue. I would caution Issa on that route. Have you seen the order of succession?

Via: Memeorandum

Via: ABC News

Via: Pennsylvania Ave

Via: Plum Line

Via: Fox News 

Joe Sestak to get off the pot: Lawmakers call for details on Sestak job offer

I feel sorry for Pennsylvania Democrats. They were stuck with two poor choices during the recent primary. On one hand they had an admitted self-serving politician with Arlen Specter and on the other hand they had a Democrat who is into play parlor games.

Joe Sestak has been saying that someone in the administration offered him a job if he dropped out of the race against Arlen Specter. However, old Joe isn’t naming names or saying what exactly was offered. What kind of parlor game is Sestak running here? Is he trying to portray himself as a man of the people and a whistle blower or is he trying to get in good graces with the administration by not divulging the details?  The whole thing smells of politics as usual. Just look at this hot mess of an interview as Sestak ducks and dodges. Geez dude, can you ride the fence any tighter?

All this pussyfooting around has not gone unnoticed by both the right and the left in DC. Rep. Darrell Issa (R CA) and Glenn Beck’s new nemesis Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) are both asking for answers. 

The Hill: Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner (N.Y.) called on the White House Monday to detail conversations it allegedly had with Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) to try to convince him to drop his Senate bid.

Weiner said allegations that White House officials had offered Sestak an administration job in exchange for his dropping his primary bid against Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) had become a growing political liability.

"I think what the White House should do is, to some degree, say, 'Here are the facts,'" Weiner said Monday morning during an appearance on MSNBC. "If there's not a lot [to] what's going on here, then just say what happened."

Republicans led by Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.), ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, have begun to ramp up pressure on the White House and Sestak, who originally made his allegation during his eventually successful primary challenge to Specter.

Issa has called on Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special prosecutor in the matter, and has threatened to file an ethics complaint against Sestak. 

The whole Sestak affair reminds me of that old saying: if you’re not gonna poop, get off the pot! Right now, Sestak ain’t poopin’.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: The Hill 

Arlen Specter is not just rude to the ladies

Arlen Specter really needs a few lessons with Emily Post his manners are atrocious! Coming right on the heels of rudely telling Michele Bachmann to act like a lady, Specter now rudely interrupts his Democratic primary rival Joe Sestak during closing remarks at a Pennsylvania Progressive forum.

Perhaps Arlen is forgetting his manners because he cannot take his mind of the fact that he is going to lose in 2010.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: TPM