Kudos to Kirsten Powers for breaking ranks with the White House sycophants and correctly calling the Obama administration on the carpet for the Sestak affair and its other arrogant insider shenanigans (“O Goes ‘Washington’,” Post- Opinion, June 1).
Will anyone else have the intestinal fortitude to investigate this?
Even Washington outsiders can’t believe that Rep. Joe Sestak would throw his career away for an unpaid advisory position.
John Antosz
Sagamore Beach, Mass.
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Sestak was asked to drop out of a Senate race for a non-paying position on a commission. These people really do believe that we are all stupid.
If it were that innocent, why did they stonewall the media for three months, then put this fantasy out late on a Friday afternoon of a long holiday weekend?
This is simply more “transparency” from this regime.
Tony Moschetti
High Point, NC
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Even before this job-offer scandal erupted, Sestak raised questions about his fitness for the Senate in a debate on CNN last fall with George Pataki about the proposed NYC terror trials.
Sestak strongly supports holding the trials in New York, but with some pretty thin reasons, along with recycled Eric Holder platitudes and repeated reminders that he was in the Navy.
This man is no friend of New York.
Bob Hunt
Hillsborough, NJ
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Boy, am I relieved there were no shenanigans pulled by the White House in its job offer to Sestak. This administration and our Congress have always been on the up-and-up, transparent and believable on what they tell the general public.
Sarcasm aside, a majority of Americans feel that the White House and both houses of Congress are dirtier than the sludge being removed from the Gulf of Mexico.
This is why the general public views this administration and Congress with disdain and disgust.
Bob Perite
Fort Mill, SC
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President Obama has admitted that he used Bill Clinton as his agent in attempting to bribe Sestak into not running against Arlen Specter.
Many would say that this runs afoul of 18USC600, which prohibits the use of anything of value to interfere with federal elections. This was passed into the US Code by a Democratic-controlled Congress, whose members got the political credit.
Now we see the true course of the Democratic Party — it passes laws that it declines to enforce when in power.
David S. Levine
Hobe Sound, Fla.
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We are all about to see “Operation Kitty Litter” — where our very “unbiased” media will try to throw so much sand over the felonious incident of bribery in order to quell the stench in the Sestak case that it will make Operation Top Kill look like kids playing in a sandbox.
D. Frascella
Lebanon, NJ
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Kudos to Powers for having the guts to say it like it is regarding Obama and his attempt to keep Sestak out of the Senate primary.
Powers is a lifelong Democrat, but even she is disturbed by this president and his shady, behind-the-scenes power plays to try to keep his chosen Democrats in office.
Obama promised “change” in Washington when he was campaigning, but he still plays by the same Washington rules that have turned off Americans about politics.
Christopher Bisignano
Staten Island
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In light of the Sestak deal, perhaps someone should investigate why every one of Sen. Kristin Gillibrand’s Democratic challengers dropped out of the race before it began.
Robert Clark
Westfield NJ
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If it were Republicans who were involved in the Sestak scandal, you know Hollywood would do a slew of movies to depict it, starring the usual — Tom Hanks, George Clooney and Sean Penn.
Thank goodness for Fox News — otherwise we truly would be ignorant of all that this administration has gotten away with.
J. Arrabito
Point Pleasant, NJ