Joe Sestak Ad Smears Pat Toomey with Dog Poop Video

Joe Sestak, Democrat incumbent for Pennsylvania's 7th District House seat, has a new ad out smearing Republican challenger Pat Toomey with poop from his the Sestak family dog. See the video below.

From Townhall:

Joe Sestak features a bag of feces collected from his family dog. Sestak swings the bag into the trash can, and equates it with the policies of his opponent.

Sestak defends his vote to bail out the banks. Toomey, keeping to the issues, does note the enormous funding in Pennsylvania by the DCC to defeat him but gets to the real issues:

“Serial bailouts of failed companies. Government nationalizing whole industries. Spending money on a scale that I never thought was possible. Corresponding debts and deficits that are completely unsustainable,” said Toomey. “You add in cap-and-trade, government run health care... is it any wonder we don’t have a recovery going on?”

Joe Sestak and his dog poop

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Bill Clinton Goes Rogue: Bill Clinton Backs Incumbent Challenger to White House Pick

Bill Clinton has gone rogue and endorsed Andrew Romanoff, the Democrat challenger to Colorado's Senator Michael Bennet. Romanoff has been in the news lately, as he says the White House offered him other jobs if he would drop his challenge to Bennet. Don't confuse these claims of White House bribes with Joe Sestak. Romanoff is the second claim of such illegal shenanigans.

Andrew Romanoff

This report says Romanoff is the first candidate Bill Clinton has endorsed since leaving the White House. While Clinton didn't endorse Senator Blanche Lincoln, he campaigned with her, and is credited with giving her a second chance to come up for air and face the Republican candidate in November.

A SurveyUSA poll taken this month suggested that Mr. Romanoff has an uphill battle against Mr. Bennet, who was appointed to his seat after Ken Salazar became Interior Secretary. Mr. Bennet registered 52 per cent support in the poll compared to just 36 per cent for Mr. Romanoff.

So for Bill Clinton to step out and endorse a candidate who is not an incumbent is huge mammoth when you consider the White House did everything they could to remove Andrew Romanoff from the horizon of the U.S. Senate. Things must be getting a bit testy for Hillary.

Andrew brings to this race both an extraordinary record of public service and an extraordinary capacity to lead. I believe that those assets, as well as his deep commitment to Colorado, give him the best chance to hold this seat in November," Mr. Clinton wrote. "I support Andrew Romanoff, and I hope you will too."

Don't forget, Obama sent Bill Clinton to Rep. Joe Sestak to make the illegal bribe, which Sestak did not take, but spilled to the press. Romanoff has already received his bribes and refused them.

If Bill can pull this off, he and Hillary will seriously be considering another White House run in 2010. It is always about Bill, and going rogue for Bill Clinton is nothing new.

Andrew Romanoff Jim Messina: Romanoff Produces Messina Emails with Job Offers

Reports tonight that Andrew Romanoff, the former speaker of the the Colorado House of Representatives, and vying for the U.S. Senate against Obama favorite, incumbent Senator Michael Bennet - released an email from Jim Messina that Romanoff says is proof the administration offered him jobs in return for his withdrawal from the Senate race. Messina is Obama's Deputy Chief of Staff for Operation.

Andrew Romanoff

From Jake Tapper at Political Punch:

Romanoff also released what he said was an e-mail from White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina outlining three possible jobs -- deputy assistant administrator for Latin America and Caribbean for the U.S. Agency for International Development; director of the Office of Democracy and Governance at USAID; and director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency – he could have if he didn’t run.

Romanoff did not accept of the offers. Obama is still supporting Michael Bennet.

The White House did not comment. The statement comes as the White House attempts to distance itself from the controversy stemming from attempts – also unsuccessful – to convince Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., to not challenge Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., in the Pennsylvania primary. Sestak ultimately defeated Specter.

The White House and Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) are spinning their stories, and hoping they both say the same thing. For months, Sestak claimed to the Press that the White House had offered him a job to bow out of the U.S. Senate race primary against Republican defector, Arlen Specter (D-PA). Sestak was a bit hot about it all and started talking. As Republicans persued the story, which appeared to point to felonies by either the White House or Sestak, both parties began talking - and what they are saying doesn't make sense. Now Romanoff is showing that this White House is actively involved in tampering with our election processes.

Related and Background:
Rahm Emanuel Directed Bill Clinton to Offer Joe Sestak a Job 

Dick Morris Suggests a Way to Make White House and Sestak Talk

Issa Calls for Ethics Probe: Bob Bauer Behind Obama-Sestak Stonewall

Rahm Emanuel Directed Bill Clinton to Offer Joe Sestak a Job

A bribe via Rahm Emanuel, via former President Bill Clinton: If Sestak is smart, he will come clean, quickly and face the consequences, which will be few if he steps up now. I understand a Sestak press conference is imminent. The thing to remember is that the prize for the White House was moving Sestak aside to give Sen. Arlen Specter a chance to retain his senate seat from Pennsylvania (and vote for every Obama initiative). Every Pennsylvanian should be outraged. Updates as available, and after Sestak's presser. See updates below.

Barack Obama with Bill Clinton and Rahm Emanuel

A bribe via Rahm Emanuel, via former President Bill Clinton: If Sestak is smart, he will come clean, quickly and face the consequences, which will be few if he steps up now. I understand a Sestak press conference is imminent. The thing to remember is that the prize for the White House was moving Sestak aside to give Sen. Arlen Specter a chance to retain his senate seat from Pennsylvania (and vote for every Obama initiative). Every Pennsylvanian should be outraged. Updates as available, and after Sestak's presser. See updates below.

If Rahm Emanuel was involved as Greg Sargent at The Plum Line is reporting, we know that Obama had his Chicago hands all over it:

But the news that Clinton is at the center of this whole story is noteworthy on its own because of the former president's stature, and underscores how heavily invested the White House was in dissuading Sestak from running. The White House sent Clinton to talk to Sestak because Arlen Specter, constituting the 60th Dem vote in the Senate, was viewed as key to enacting Obama's agenda.

 Can it get any uglier than a former President doing this? Can you imagine George W. Bush offering a bribe like this - or any bribe for that matter?

Update 11:40 a.m.
From White House Counsel Robert Bauer via Fox News' Major Garrett from a White House Report:

White House key points, from Bauer (paraphrased):
1) There were "factual errors" in reporting
2) Sestak was not offered the job of Secretary of the Navy
3) At no time did Sestak seek the job of Secretary of the Navy
4) The offer was of uncompensated advisory board options
5) One option was for Sestak to stay in the house, and serve on advisory positions to President without compensation.
6) White House staff did not discuss the options with Sestak
7)Emanuel talked to Clinton about optional positions to offer
8) Nothing nefarious about it, and other administratons have done the same thing.

Just minutes ago [11:42 a.m.],  Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) was on Fox News and said the "Statute" says that nothing of value can be legally offered, either  directly or indirectly, He also said Sestak has said that the White House had conversations with his [Sestak's] brother, who is his campaign manager

Update 1:00 p.m. EDT:
So, the White House and Sestak have their story worked out on Friday afternoon before Memorial Day weekend - what a classy bunch - absolutely not respect for American voters:
Sestak has issued a statement, but I'm not yet finding it on line. Originally, Sestak said Clinton/Rahm Emanuel offered him a" job, not an "advisory position." Today's story from Sestak, however,  says he was only offered a position on a presidential board, with no compensation, while remaining a U.S. Representative in the House.

Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey on FOX said "this is politics as usual." To that comment, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) said if that is true, let it stop now, and he said he would stop it! Mukasey said this would only break one of the statutes if the offer was for a position created by Congress, such as Secretary of Navy. Others are seeing it differently.

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Dick Morris Joe Sestak: Dick Morris Suggestion to make White House and Sestak Talk

Deck Morris suggests, via an idea gleaned from Fox News' Judge Andrew Napolitano, that Pennsylvania Attorney General, Tom Corbett, convene a grand jury, bring in Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA), maybe Rahm Emanuel, Obama's Chief-of-Staff and, maybe, Barack Obama to testify under oath.

Judge Andrew Napolitano and  Dick Morris

The State of Pennsylvania and it's voters were obviously compromised if a job offer was made to Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) to step out of the U.S. Senate race to make smooth sailing for RINO defecter-turned-Democrat, Arlen Specter. If Sestak had taken the White House's offer, he would have tainted the election process - affected the race and the choices available to voters. The offer would be considered a bribe, and could amount to felony charges for someone. When the illegal offer was made, Joe Sestak was bound by House Rules to report it. He didn't. Instead, he was ticked at Obama for attempting to drum him out of a Senate seat, and made the claim to the press. Sestak's story hasn't wavered. Someone is lying - either Sestak or the White House.

Tom Corbett is a Republican running for Pennsylvania governor:

Corbett’s jurisdiction stems from the concept of universal jurisdiction, now accepted virtually everywhere.  The concept is simple.  If someone on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River fires a pistol across the Hudson and the bullet from the pistol hits someone on the NY side, where did the crime take place? For about 600 years, the answer would have been in NY, where the harm was caused. Under the Reagan administration, and in response to urgings from the Meese Justice Department, the courts began to accept the doctrine of universal jurisdiction. This principle gives jurisdiction to law enforcement in the place wherever any act occurred that may have resulted in a crime. Thus, under our scenario above, the shooter could be prosecuted in NJ or NY.

Thus, if Cong. Sestak was in one of his homes, in PA or VA, when he received a telephone call offering him a job if he withdrew from the PA Senate primary against Sen. Arlen Specter, law enforcement authorities in PA and VA — both of which have Republican state Attorneys General — can subpoena Cong. Sestak to testify before a state grand jury and compel him to answer the who, what, when, and where that everyone has a right to know.i

Apparently it is too much to expect Sestak to do the right and lawful thing. He either lied, or he didn't. He needs to 'speak' it because he brought it out. Now he needs to put it to bed. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is pushing for an investigation separate from the White House or the Department of Justice. This sounds like a jewel of a plan - if the offer was made to Sestak while he was in the state of Pennsylvania.

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Issa Calls for Ethics Probe: Bob Bauer Behind Obama-Sestak Stonewall

White House attorney Robert Bauer, the husband of former White House Communications Director and  Maoist- philosophy admirer, Anita Dunn, is fingered by Michelle Malkin as complicit in the Sestak stonewall.

Bob Bauer and Anita Dunn

Attorney General Eric Holder was questioned in the U.S. House by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) last week, about Sestak's claim that someone in the White House offered Sestak a job in exchange for  dropping out of his Democrat senate race against party-jumper Arlen Specter (D-PA) (who lost his primary to Sestak). Malkin says Holder told Issa he would not address "hypotheticals," and Malkin claims Holder was simply following orders from Bob Bauer, Obama's "personal lawyer and Democratic Party legal boss."

You see, on March 10, Issa also sent a letter to Bauer, the White House counsel to the president, requesting specifics: Did White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel contact Sestak? Did White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina (whom another Democrat, U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff, has accused of offering a cabinet position in exchange for his withdrawal)? How about the White House Office of Political Affairs? Any other individuals? What position(s) was/were offered in exchange for Sestak’s withdrawal? And what, if any, steps did Bauer take to investigate possible criminal activity?...

But the laws governing such public corruption are still on the books. And unlike Gibbs [Obama press secretary], the U.S. code governing bribery, graft and conflicts of interest is rather straightforward: “Whoever solicits or receives … any … thing of value, in consideration of the promise of support or use of influence in obtaining for any person any appointive office or place under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”

Read the entire story at Michelle Malkin.

Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA), once-upon-a-time furious with the White House for trying to move him out of the Senate race, told the press months ago that he was offered a job by the Obama administration. Then he clammed up and refused to tell "who" or "what," although he has not wavered sin. Problem is, he isn't saying who offered him another job, or what the job was, although there are speculations that Admiral Sestak may have been offered the Secretary of the Navy position. Now Sestak faces the possibility of a House Ethics probe because he did not report the decidedly illegal job offer to House leaders. The bottomline: Sestak is guilty either way: guilty as a member of the U.S. Congress not reporting an illegal act, or guilty of lying.

Former Clinton White House advisor, Dick Morris says this is possibly an impeachable offense.

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."

Obviously, the offer of a significant job in the White House could not be made unless it was by Rahm Emanue or cleared with Rahm Emanuel, [said Morris on the Sean Hannity Show]. If the job offer was high enough that it also had Obama's approval, "that is a high crime and misdemeanor." 

In other words, an impeachable offense? Hannity asked. "Absolutely," said Morris

More on Sestak and a White House bribe at WorldNetDaily.


Related and Background:
Bob Bauer and Anita Dunn - Power Couple

Judgeships for Sale and Sestak Offered High-Ranking Position not to Challenge Specter

Rep. Jim Matheson (D-UT-2nd) voted against the House health care bill in November, and is on Obama's "undecided" list to vote for the next legislation. So what is a President to do? Buy him off, of course.  Jim Matheson's brother Scott was nominated yesterday for the 10th Circuit Court by Obama. If this health care business is going to be over as soon as the President indicates, why not hold this nomination? There is vote-buying going on. If Rep. Matheson could not support the bill the first time around, he surely cannot stomach it now. Rep. Sestak revealed that he was offered a high-ranking position, by the White House, not to challenge Senator Arlen Specter's Senate seat.

The President invited ten House Democrats to the White House last night. Each voted no the first time around: Rep. Jason Altmire (PA), Rep. Allen Boyd (FL), Rep. Lincoln Davis (TN), Rep. Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (SD), Rep. Frank Kratovil (MD), Rep. Ed Markey (Mass), Rep. Jim Matheson (PA), Rep. Patrick Murphy (PA), Rep. Heath Shuler (NC) and Rep. John Tanner (TN).

Consider Congressman Matheson's record on the health care bill. He voted against the bill in the Energy and Commerce Committee back in July and again when it passed the House in November. 

But now he's "undecided" on ramming the bill through Congress. "The Congressman is looking for development of bipartisan consensus," Matheson's press secretary Alyson Heyrend wrote to THE WEEKLY STANDARD on February 22. "It’s too early to know if that will occur." 

Asked if one could infer that if no Republican votes in favor of the bill (i.e. if a bipartisan consensus is not reached) then Rep. Matheson would vote no, Heyrend replied: "I would not infer anything.  I’d wait to see what develops, starting with the health care summit on Thursday." 

Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) says he was offered a federal job in July 2009, by the White House, if he would not challenge Senator Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania. The White House essentially said Sestak lied:

A White House spokesman this morning strongly denied Sestak had been offered yesterday. Before the spokesman issued the denial a senior Pennsylvania Democrat yesterday said Whitye House officials there were angered by Sestak's account.

Sestak announced his candidacy for the Senate in August. Rumors are that Sestak was offered the position of Secretary of the Navy, rumors which Sestak refuses to confirm, although he did say the position was a "high-ranking." Sestak (58) is a retired Navy admiral.