Corruption

Michelle Malkin has a story that shows "the Chicago Way" that the Obama administration uses to get things done. In this instance they are blatantly trying to buy the vote of a Utah Democrat.

Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he’s obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson’s brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Taking the most charitable possible interpretation; one that this is just a coincidence, she writes:

Is the White House so fantastically blind and tone-deaf that it failed to detect the blood-red flags and blaring alarm bells that Scott Matheson’s judicial nomination would raise coming on the very day President Obama is wooing his brother, Jim?

I am so grateful for the alternate sources of news like blogs, talk radio, and other Internet resources. ABC, NBC, and CBS would never report about such corrupt behavior by their favorite politician.