You can’t make this stuff up. The White House is expected to issue a statement today admitting that former President Bill Clinton was used as the intermediary to bribe lean on informally check the interest of Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Sestak in taking a position with the Obama administration if he would drop out of the Democratic Senate primary.
From The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent:
The White House maintains that Clinton’s overtures to Sestak merely constituted an effort to gauge his seriousness about the race, the sources say, adding that Clinton was informally discussing the range of options open to Sestak as part of a larger conversation meant to ascertain Sestak’s thinking.
Yeah, informal discussions. Nothing concrete mentioned. Sounds about right.
