SENATE REPUBLICANS WANT SPECIAL PROSECUTOR…. | The Washington Monthly
In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder today, all seven Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee “urge the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Congressman Joe Sestak’s claim that a White House official offered him a job to induce him to exit the Pennsylvania Senate primary race against Senator Arlen Specter.”
Every modern administration — and even plenty of not-so-modern administrations — uses appointment opportunities as leverage in political negotiations. Reagan did it; Clinton did it; Bush did it. The notion that any of this necessitated a special prosecutor is madness. Ron Kaufman, who served as President George H.W. Bush’s White House political director, said, “Tell me a White House that didn’t do this, back to George Washington.”