Joe Sestak lets loose GOP impeachment fantasies

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Joe Sestak lets loose GOP impeachment fantasies
Jay Bookman


U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, the underdog who beat Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate primary, says he turned down a nice job offer by the Obama administration that would have kept him from challenging Specter.

That news has Washington Republicans all up in arms, outraged at such blatantly criminal and unethical behavior at the highest levels of American government.

Well. Kinda sorta. They are at least going through the motions of pretending to believe it’s an outrage, including calling for appointment of a special prosecutor and uttering that magic word they do love so well: “Impeachable.”

It just sounds so juicy and full of promise, doesn’t it? “Impeachable.” Certain mouths begin to water at the prospect.

But it’s laughable, and Republicans in Washington know it. You can see it in their body language and hear it in their voices, even as they profess to be appalled. These are people who can look the camera in the eye and tell you with a straight face that the sun will rise in the West tomorrow, but even they can’t work up much feigned anger at this.

Nor can the experts. Listen to Melanie Sloan, the head of CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics):



Listen to Richard Painter, chief ethics officer under the last President Bush, who says this “is nothing new and it hardly rises to the level of a major ethics controversy”:



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What you’re seeing is the national GOP playacting — and playacting pretty poorly, with no heart in the performance — just to get the folks back home stirred up and full of hope.

but there will have to be some MAJOR back peddling because of all the many instances that people can point to of Republicans doing exactly the same thing. It will be fun to hear Hannity, Limbaugh et al sputter and explain how that doesn't count.

ALTHOUGH, you have to wonder how mnay right wing media outlets will even present that side of things.

lots of chatter and smoke, but they look so foolish in the end. Offering someone a position in the government in not against the law. Something to bring their base together

Some might think it is manipulative, and maybe it is. But how in the hell do you think they get people to come into the government, who are in other offices or running for other offices.

Lets take the hated Rahm for instance. He was going to run for office in Illinois and was offered a position in DC..

Special Prosecutor? oh please.

they should say, remember what happened last time the GOP took over Congress? They performed a 100% bogus partisan impeachment of the president.

Get Clinton himself out there, saying, remember they freaking IMPEACHED me! Over a freaking blowjob! I was dealing with al Qaeda and Kosovo and they freaking impeached me. Look what they're saying about Obama, you think they're not going to impeach him too, over something just as bogus? Do you want that?