BY JOHN FEEHERY
On ABC’s weekly gab-fast “This Week” yesterday, America’s last remaining Whig, the bow-tied George Will, blithely dismissed the kerfluffle surrounding the latest accusations surrounding illegality in the White House. “Business as usual,” he huffed.
But moments later, on a separate network, the one who was offered the bribe, Joe Sestak, acknowledged that he was offered such a deal – a high-ranking government appointment in exchange for a discontinued Senate. “I was offered a job, but I am not going to tell you what it was.”
Most people assumed that it was Secretary of the Navy. For those keeping notes, an appointment to become Secretary of the Navy is not worth a chance to knock off Arlen Specter, at least not at the current market rates.
This morning, a writer for the left-wing opinion site Slate, Joe Conason, opined that what the White House offered was probably illegal.