Coincidence or Corruption?

This should be an outrage to every American who opposes corruption in government.  Just a couple of hours before the White House was to host 10 House Democrats who voted against ObamaCare, President Obama nominated the brother of one of the holdouts to be a federal appeals court judge.  Writing in the Weekly Standard, John McCormack exposes this new brazen attempt to sway the votes of opponents of the House Bill:

So, Scott Matheson appears to have the credentials to be a judge, but was his nomination used to buy off his brother’s vote?

Consider Congressman Matheson’s record on the health care bill. He voted against the bill in the Energy and Commerce Committee back in July and again when it passed the House in November. But now he’s “undecided” on ramming the bill through Congress. “The Congressman is looking for development of bipartisan consensus,” Matheson’s press secretary Alyson Heyrend wrote to THE WEEKLY STANDARD on February 22. “It’s too early to know if that will occur.” Asked if one could infer that if no Republican votes in favor of the bill (i.e. if a bipartisan consensus is not reached) then Rep. Matheson would vote no, Heyrend replied: “I would not infer anything.  I’d wait to see what develops, starting with the health care summit on Thursday.”

The timing of this nomination looks suspicious, especially in light of Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak’s claim that he was offered a federal job not to run against Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania primary. Many speculated that Sestak, a former admiral, was offered the Secretary of the Navy job.

Obama and his henchmen are corrupt Chicago thugs (which is odd given that they are a gaggle of beta males) who will stop at nothing to seize more control over the lives of Americans.

In the video below from Larry King Live, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) calls for an independent investigation while pointing out that this is just the latest in a line of underhanded deals wielded by a corrupt Democrat Party in their increasingly brazen attempt to ram their unpopular statist health care agenda down the throats of an angry citizenry.

We really need to have a independent investigation into this matter because we have seen the Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, the Union Loophole, and now the big question is is the White House trading health care votes for judgeships?  This is a pretty serious issue, Larry.

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) responds like the Kool Aid drinking one termer that he is, calling it simply a “distraction” and a ”tangent”.  I wonder if Mr. Grayson would have given the previous occupant of the White House the same benefit of the doubt?

Responding to Grayson’s trite dismissal of this as a “tangent”, Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air had this to say:

Besides, which candidate for President promised to change the way Washington works?  Which candidate promised “Hope and Change,” and a new era of transparency?  Which political party promised in 2006 to provide “Open, Honest Government”?  Those weren’t “tangents” in 2006 or 2008.

That being said, the likelihood of an independent probe into this is about the same as Barack Obama suddenly announcing that he’s converted to supply-side economics and proposing the elimination of the Department of Education.  The Department of Justice under Eric Holder will treat it with the same urgency as voter-intimidation tactics in Philadelphia, and the current Congress will get right on this obvious bribe immediately after looking into Nancy Pelosi’s power grab on Ways and Means.