Reply #17: Wait. Is offering a congressman a job in your administration always [View All]

[JDPriestly]

an impeachable offense. Or is it just an impeachable offense if the person offered the job is running for an office and you support a different candidate running for the office?

I really don't understand that. Because I believe that president's offer members of Congress jobs every once in a while. I can think of a number of instances in which a cabinet position was offered to a member of Congress at a convenient time in terms of an election.

Didn't Obama offer a job to one of the Republican members of Congress, a job that the Congressman refused possibly because the administration of the census wasn't going to be a part of the job? Hillary Clinton was offered the job of Secretary of State. She was a senator at the time. We don't know when the job was offered.

I don't even think this is unusual.

Sestak would make a great Secretary of the Navy. In fact, I can't think of a better qualified candidate for Secretary of the Navy. It is my understanding that was the job that was offered.

I seriously doubt that Obama cared so much about Specter that he would have offered Sestak a job to help Specter. Just does not sound likely to me. Specter is not as good a Democrat as Sestak is. And Sestak is young and will be able to serve a long time. Specter is older and had a bout with cancer. The story is being blown way out of proportion.