Before I get into this, I should say that yesterday? I broke out the ol’ satellite dish on the boat and watched part of the U.S. Coast Guard & Minerals Management Service Joint Investigation hearings at Kenner, Louisiana.

I say “part of it” because that was all I could stomach.

You see, BP had one of their professional liars at the hearing, one of those ivy league educated goons whose job it is to obfuscate without appearing to do so, yet who are so obviously lying with the proverbial practiced straight face that it should turn the stomach on any honest man.

Well enough said about that except, oh, yeah, for Seth, his being an ex-coastie and all: Two U.S. Coast Guard officers have now completed BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolitions/SEALs) training, and three more coasties are in the pipeline.

These new SEALs, after their graduation at Coronado, will return to the Coast Guard, bringing their new skills to bear within the homeland security segments of the maritime military force’s responsibilities.

Now, what, I ask, is this? Still more skullduggery by the White House branch of the corrupt Chicago political machine? I’ve been out on the boat for the last couple of days and may have missed something since then, but…

With all the attention on President Obama’s bungling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the news of Congressional calls for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate of an alleged job offer by the Obama Administration to get Congressman Joe Sestak (D-PA) out of the Pennsylvania Senate race has been pushed down the news pages. This is a serious matter and something that will not be brushed aside. Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), former Bush Administration official Karl Rove and Senate Judiciary Republicans have raised the issue that somebody in the Obama Administration may have committed a felony.

Wow, someone in the Obama Administration might have committed a felony?

I mean,

This Administration has held themselves out to be more ethical than administrations of the past. President Obama’s declared in his inaugural address on January 21, 2009 that:

What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition on the part of every American that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world; duties that we do not grudgingly accept, but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character than giving our all to a difficult task.

This “new era of responsibility” should include an open discussion by the President about whether they did offer Congressman Sestak a job to get out of the primary race for the Democrat nomination to be the next Senator from the state of Pennsylvania.
The White House Web Site promises transparency and accountability right now:

President Obama has consistently made clear that he will strive to lead the most open, transparent, and accountable government in history. Whether it is reigning in the influence of lobbyists in Washington, bringing unprecedented accountability to federal spending, opening doors to engagement with the American public, or shutting down the “revolving door” that carries special interest influence in and out of the government, the highest standards will be sought in every thing the federal government does.

…the most open, transparent, and accountable government in history.

When does that come into effect?

Those promises will be tested over the next few weeks with calls by some Republicans for the Obama Administration to come clean about an alleged job offer to Sestak. Karl Rove has alleged that one of two things are true: either Sestak is lying;

or, a crime may have been committed by somebody in the Obama Administration.

Karl Rove via the L.A. Times as quoted on the Fox News Channel:

One of two things is true, you can’t have two things true. One or the other is true. Either Joe Sestak is lying and he was not offered a position in the administration in return for getting out of the primary. You know he’s a liar, in which case not worthy of public service. Or, he’s telling the truth, in which case somebody inside the White House committed a felony. 18 USC 211 says that, a government official cannot promise a job in return for anything of value and it has a long list of values.

The entire article is here.

If I were a betting man, I’d bet that this gets ignored as much as possible by the quasi communist editors within the mainstream media.