Bill Clinton Bribes Sestak?

[Professor S]

(CNN) - Administration officials engaged in no improper conduct as part of alleged efforts to dissuade Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Sestak from launching a primary challenge against Sen. Arlen Specter, White House Legal Counsel Robert Bauer asserted Friday in publicly-released memorandum.

According to Bauer, Sestak was offered a high-level but unpaid position. Sestak turned the offer down, and ended up scoring an upset victory over Specter in last week's Pennsylvania primary. The White House was instrumental in last year's switch by Specter from the GOP to the Democratic party. It backed him in his bid for a sixth term in the Senate, and was eager to clear the field of any primary opponents.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...id=aTzGuDkBe_8

I love the assumption that offering a position with no pay (even if that is true) means it has no value. Lets look that the flawed reasoning behind that:

Someone is offered "A" in return for "B". If "A" has no value, why would the offering party expect to receive "B" in return? Because this was an exchange, "A" must inherently have value or else the proposal would have never come to pass and the offering party would have simply asked for "B" without offering anything.

Now I'm not one of the people intoning such exaggerated consequences as impeachment, but this was tampering and a significant abuse of power, and if everything went down the way its been explained so far there should be consequences. My suggestion would be the resignation of Rahm Emanuel, who is am embarrassment to the white house as it is. His resignation alone would improve bipartisanship.