REDSTATE: Media Matters ADMITS Barack Obama Has Bribed Congressman Jim Matheson

From the Mind of Splittfinger

Media Matters, doing its typical shilling for the Obama Administration, threw up some lame talking points about Barack Obama appointing Scott Matheson, brother of Congressman Jim Matheson, to the federal bench.

The right has pointed out it has the appearance of bribery.

Today, trying to refute the accusation, Media Matters gives away the game. Casually in defending the appointment, Media Matters notes Scott Matheson told the White House in June of 2009 that he wanted Judge Michael McConnell’s job when it became available at the end of August 2009.

When does Barack Obama choose to appoint Scott Matheson?

Yesterday. The same day he has over the appointee’s brother, a congressman, to persuade the Congress to change his no vote on health care to a yes vote.

The Great Gavel Giveaway of 2010 is looking more and more like Gavelgate thanks to the industrious spinning of Media Matters trying to be helpful.

You know, giving Athena Innovative Solutions, Inc. defense contracts after $2 million in gifts to Duke Cunningham got Duke Cunningham thrown in jail. Giving a congressman’s brother life tenure on the federal bench in exchange for supporting the President’s legacy project is not much different.


Posted Mar 04 2010, 01:27 PM by Splittfinger
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RationalRepublican wrote re: REDSTATE: Media Matters ADMITS Barack Obama Has Bribed Congressman Jim Matheson
on 04-06-2010 4:38 PM

Earmarks are all about buying votes. Bribery is how washington works. Has been for years. People have just been asleep at the vote and let things progress to a really sorry state I really don't know when it all started, probably from the beginning, but with the amount of money now days, I can beleive total corruption is a somewhat new phenomina.  

The Repulicans Jet around on privaite jets, go to sex clubs on donation money. The do sweetheart deals billions go to farmers that distort the market, under republicans the richest industry in the history of the planet gets billions in subsidies thanks to republicans.

We really do have the best congress money can buy and we need to start buying them. If conservatives would start to fire republicans, I would vote to fire a bunch of democrats.  The current system is the problem and we all fiddle while rome burns.  We need to get do something like taxpayer financing of campaigns so the polititians are beholden to us instead of the local billionare.  We could cap the total spent in elections and maybe they would have to focus on real issues instead of issues that affect only major corporations.  

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