Hippies Rejoice. Watergate Reboot Arrives!

Updated: I feel dumb saying the White House offered someone a job in return for dropping out of a race. It was actually 3 jobs (Politico).

Whether it’s re-imagining 70′s TV shows and movies, America in 2010 loves a good remake (or a bad one). And the Obama administration delivers. The self-proclaimed “most ethical” and “transparent” administration ever seems to have a growing stack of bribery, corruption, and flat-out lies stacking up against them. Not just all the little stuff we assume is going on, but actual ones that are being outed.

Much like Watergate, the cover-up here is worse than the crime. This is just politics as usual (from those who ran on ending that)…waving power and positions in front of government officials to strategically swing an election. Much like Watergate, it’s also a “high crime and misdemeanor.” So flower-children of the 60′s, get ready to bring out the old tie-dye again..it’s protest time! Oh wait, you run the government now.

If you haven’t been keeping up, or you get all your news from MSNBC, there’s been yet another admission of bribery to get a candidate to not run in a primary.

You may have heard of the Joe Sestak case, which weirdly ended in them saying Bill Clinton offered a non-paying low-level post to get out of the PA primary race (which is a possibly true story if it … no it makes no sense at all) but now we have our transparent administration offering Colorado’s Romanoff to not run against Bennet.

Why would they do this? Aside from wanting to swing elections by ensuring their chosen candidate gets in, those who make it to office through backhand deals have a lot of favors to return (not that I’m saying Arlen Specter switched parties with nothing in return..no). > AP News Story on Romanoff Offer

Fortunately, if Obama is good at strong arming and Chicago-style deal making, he’s also good at the PR machine. …. uhh.. at least he was.