If the President Quits Smoking, How Will He Make Smoke-Filled Backroom Deals?
I feel a bit bad that the President has been given the directive by his doctor to quite smoking(no word if he tried to remove the President’s tonsils for a littke extra coin). It seems to have forced him to move his shady deals from the normal backrooms filled with deadly cigarette smoke to right out in the open where we can all see them.
Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he’s obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson’s brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Jim Matheson says no and the White House used the word “absurd” to describe the notion that the administration would use its political power to reward those members of Congress who vote for their totalitarian government programs. Think Progress, not funded in any way by allies of the current administration, leaped to the President’s defense saying that such a think is simply ridiculous and how dare we even suggest it (via memeorandum).
Maybe this is a bribe and maybe it isn’t. I’m not inclined to give the most ethical Congress and most transparent administration in history much more than a tiny amount of slack given its propensity for old-school, Chicago-style corruption. But if this nomination isn’t an outright attempt to buy Matheson’s vote, it surely stinks of bribery, which doesn’t make the President look much better. Anyone with a thimble-full of common sense would have known to hold on to the nomination for a month to avoid the appearance of impropriety. I’m beginning to wonder if anyone in the upper echelon of the Obama administration has a clue or a care about what the average person thinks of their various political maneuvers.
This leads to one of two conclusions. Either the administration is so politically naive that it had no idea the nomination could be seen as a bribe or the administration doesn’t care that it’s seen that way. We shouldn’t accept either option.
UPDATE: A bribe? Nah…just a happy coincidence. Has to be. The George Soros “White Guys named Chad” Steno Pool said so.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Too Bad Ben Nelson Doesn’t Have to Claim His Health Care Bribe as a Campaign Contribution
- President Obama to Unveil Job-Killing, Success-Punishing Budget
- Hi! Billy Mays Here for Obamacare!
Category: Health Care Craziness
