The Romanoff Restoration: Another White House Jobs Stimulus Program Further Exposed
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
According to Politico, Andrew Romanoff has confirmed that Joe Sestak’s “unpaid job offer” was just the tip of the iceberg:
Colorado U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff confirmed Wednesday that Jim Messina, President Barack Obama’s deputy chief of staff, suggested three administration jobs that would be available to him last September if he dropped his plans to run against U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, who had the support of the White House.
Romanoff said he informed the White House that he would stay in the race. The revelation comes days after the White House confirmed that Rep. Joe Sestak was approached about an unpaid position in the administration if he dropped his campaign against Sen. Arlen Specter. But in this case, Romanoff was offered paid positions in the administration, a clear difference from the Sestak case.
Here are the three job offers (or “openings”) that Politico reports Messina sent to Romanoff. All the job listings appear to be verbose, semi-useless, mostly idiotic and uber-bureaucratic cluster-hump make-work positions — which leads me to believe the email is authentic.
You’ll notice, if you read the details of both the Messina and Sestak offers, there’s a heavy “wink wink, nudge nudge” factor involved in the offers, but still, is this transparency? Is this Hope? Is this Change? Is this legal?
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
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Flashbacks from Michelle:
First noted the Romanoff bribe story back in February here; column on Sestak, Romanoff and Mary Patrice Brown job offers in March here; and on the White House pattern of stonewalling here.
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Update: Gibbs responds, fairly unconvincingly.
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Like I said before…. we need a grand jury investigation followed by indictments and finally the long awaited impeachment of another crooked Democrat President. This guy must be evicted from office ASAP, followed by the accomplices in Congress re: Fannie/Freddiegate.
From:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/clowardpiven_government.html
(Emphasis/bolding mine)
It is time to cast aside all remaining doubt. …Obama is not trying to lead America forward to recovery, prosperity and strength. Quite the opposite, in fact.
These people are our enemies. They don’t use guns, yet, but they are just as dangerous, determined, and duplicitous as the communists we faced in the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, and bush wars across the globe, and the Nazis we faced in World War II.
It is time we fully internalized and digested this fact, with all its ugly ramifications.
These people have violated countless laws and could be prosecuted, had we the political power.
Not only are their policies unconstitutional, but deliberately so — the goal being to make the Constitution irrelevant.
Their spending is off the charts and will drive us into hyperinflation, but it could be rescinded, had we the political power.
These policies are toxic, but they could be stopped and reversed, had we the political power.
Their ideologies are poisonous, but they could be exposed for what they are, with long jail sentences as an object lesson, had we the political power.
Every single citizen who cares about this country should be spending every minute of his or her spare time lobbying, organizing, writing, and planning. Fight every initiative they launch. It is all destructive. If we are to root out this evil, it is critical that in 2010 we elect competent, principled leaders willing to defend our Constitution and our country.
Otherwise, the malevolent cabal that occupies the government today will become too entrenched.
After that, all bets are off.
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Let’s get the political power, damn it.
God Bless America…and pray for her.
Time to replace the tires on the Obama bus. I’d hate to see them get a flat running over people.
Um, transparency – Not even close, Hope – as in I sure hope he spirals in, yes. Change – as in the most honestest, most transparentest White House EVAH? Ahhh, nope.
Thanks Doug! I am so glad I checked in before snooze time. The HopenChange Titanic has hit the berg. S.O.S… This is HMS Twatanic. We’re going down by the stem. We need immedia….blub, blub.
Where are the US Attorney’s on this. There seems to be more than enough evidence to convene a Grand Jury. Are the US Attorney’s who would get this rolling? And if them, or whomever it is, do they need anyone else’s consent to proceed?
You can bet that Obama had knowledge of this and if the President of the United States is involved in this type of election manipulation, the people have to know about it and some house cleaning is in order.
Holder is all over this.
sarc. off
How does she stay ahead of the curve like that?
Looking for corrupt crepes, then a massage and a dip in the Ritz pool no doubt.
The Clintons are amusing sometimes. I bet Bill took the heat for Sestak and then quietly called Romanoff. Not that this could help Hillary – heh…
…and the crap keeps flying!
Will ANY of it stick to The One???
Not a chance. You couldn’t get a House Republican to even broach the subject, much less get an actual hearing. Not with a Dem majority and not after what the Senate did to them last time. Obama will serve out his term, barring a capital crime, and quite probably will come within an eyelash of re-election.
Well, I am sure President Thin Skin will respond with “I will never rest until…” and then he will go on vacation to rest again.
Just like he did last Friday after stating he would never rest until the oil stopped leaking.
My bet?, a Mideast conflagration will save his ass. He’s stoking that fire as we speak.
He’ll be safe as long as Rahm is willing to take a shower with every jury member in the Blago trial.
Governor Edward G. Rendell of Pennsylvania is certainly proud that he uses job offers to select candidates. If it is legal in Pennsylvania I do not know, but the mindset is there. Yes indeed they are generous with other people’s money. Laws are for chumps I guess.
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An Armed Society is a polite society.
Rogue Cheddar: Under such threats I imagine the jurors’ deliberations would become more smelly than heated!
Job offers: The WH, Dems and possibly Politico’s ilk might be more upset that this can’t be covered up – rather than it having happened.
It will be difficult to expose all of the crimes and cover-ups emanating from this corrupt group of gangsters with the media as co-conspirators and weak-kneed Republicans failing at every opportunity. What have we Citizens managed to do to ourselves? and Can we correct it before permenante damage is done to the greatest country on earth?
I am Shocked, SHOCKED, that this would ever happen during the most wonderful administration of all times throughout the world.
Sarc/SARC/sarc
Honestly, if that broke out, I think he’d look like the empty suit he is, while the Israelis do the work…