Can GOP stir up public to dig into Sestak affair?
To many Republicans, the White House’s story on the Joe Sestak matter just doesn’t add up. Why would chief of staff Rahm Emanuel enlist former President Bill Clinton — outside of Barack Obama, the biggest gun in the Democratic world — to offer an obscure, unpaid position to Rep. Sestak in exchange for Sestak agreeing not to challenge White House favorite Sen. Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Senate primary? Why send the Big Dog to offer such a little treat? And why believe Sestak, a former Navy admiral, would give up his dream of being a senator in any event? Then, hours after the White House released its self-exonerating report Friday, we discovered Sestak wasn’t even eligible for the position Clinton offered. The rules of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board expressly forbid U.S. government employees from serving. The White House plan called for Sestak to remain in his job as congressman from Pennsylvania’s 7th District, so he wouldn’t have been allowed on the board. “Are w
