Job Creation Obama Style

Despite my deep dislike of all-things Obama, I have to disagree with my compatriots on the Right in sounding the alarms over Sestak-Gate, which is now spiraling down into the fetid political pond of Romanoff-Gate.  Patronage is as old as civilization, and an indispensable factor in political governance.  If a political party cannot stock its administration with its own, then it cannot govern.  In fact, the Congressional intervention of the last decades into Executive branch administration of its agencies by prohibiting President's from firing "career" personnel for political reasons is primarily responsible for the entrenchment of Washington bureaucracies into bunkered power centers.  As a result, we now have a fourth branch of government, the third, fourth, and fifth level bureaucrats with life tenure, who calcify worn out policies into the body politic and continuously oppose new Presidents and new agendas. Gridlock results.  What is needed is political patronage, which would tow away all the 1950's and 1960's junk heaps and jalopies, clearing the streets for newer models which will navigate the city in accordance with new rules of the road as determined by democratic consensus.  That the political appointees and the political party that appoints them reap personal benefits from the arrangement is only a by-product of having any kind of government at all.  If you don't like it, downsize and eliminate all these government jobs.  You would have my hearty support. What is most revealing about this whole affair, however, is the absolute tin-ear of the Obami. Continue.... In response to the Sestak revelations, the simple response was that there is nothing untoward about the leaders of the Democrat Party managing and promoting their own candidates for political office.  The Obami should have said that the leadership concluded a primary contest would hinder or hurt the Democrat's chances in the fall, and that Arlen Specter was the preferred candidate for the Pennsylvania Senate seat.  In discussing this with Mr. Sestak, it would have been quite natural to discuss also the possibility of other ways he could serve the public interest, ways that only a President could provide him, and no quid pro quo need be intended.  Just two loyal Democrats kicking around the problem.  In the end, Mr. Sestak would only have had to admit that in the heat of the primary challenge and in his disappointment that his Party would not support him he misunderstood the tone and tenor of the conversation.  To allow at this point that he misspoke when he said he was offered a job to get out of the Senate race would be a bit embarrassing but of minor political importance. Instead, the Obami have gone all lawyerly on the matter, on the advice of a less than competent lawyer.  Astonishingly, they have admitted that Mr. Sestak was offered a job to get out of the Senate race, thinking, I guess, that using former President Bill Clinton to make the offer puts up some kind of firewall for Administration.  Sure; that'll fly.  "I didn't rob the bank.  I was in the car the whole time while my henchman did it."  I see a long jail term resulting from such a defense, and a short career term for the lawyer who devised it. And then they averred that the job offered was an unpaid executive branch advisory committee appointment.  This would be too clever by half, except that it is too stupid by 9/10ths.  Such a job offer does not violate one section of the law because it is not a job created by Congress, but ... oops! ... it violates a similar law which is not restricted to Congressionally created jobs.  So, on advice of counsel, the Obami have admitted to the crime.  However, infants and incompetents are not liable for their actions, and you don't get more infantile or incompetent than this Administration is proving to be.  They should be spanked, as they will be this fall, and sent upstairs without their supper.  For the rest of us, I say we move on to more pressing problems.