The Specter of Nixon's Impeachment Now Haunts Obama

Even as he pushes to pass his Nazi health-care legislation, Barack Obama and all the President's men are now in the process of being forced out of office under threat of impeachment, just as Lyndon LaRouche has demanded.

In this case, it will not be a Watergate burglary, but rather the offer of jobs to two Democrats to bribe them into not running against incumbent Democratic Senators backed by Obama. According to Section 18, Article 600 of the United States Code, an official can be prosecuted who uses "government-funded jobs or programs to advance a partisan political agenda."

As the White House has stonewalled, engaging in what Rep. Darrell Issa has referred to as a "Nixonian coverup," the story has been gaining increasing traction. The Washington Times has editorialized in favor of an investigation. Rep. Darrell Issa has been interviewed on Fox News. And today a major article entitled "Specter Opens Door on White House Felonies" by Jeffrey Lord was published by both the American Spectator and the Philadelphia Bulletin, which reports the following developments:

First, Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak stated on Feb. 18 that he was offered a job by the Obama Administration if he would withdraw from his primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter, whose defection from the Republican Party gave Obama a super-majority in the Senate. Sestak has reconfirmed that accusation since then, but has refused to divulge the details.

Earlier, on Sep. 27, 2009, the Denver Post reported that Obama White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina, who works for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emannuel, allegedly offered a job in the Obama Administation to ex-Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff if he dropped his planned primary challenge to U.S. Sen. Michael Bennett. Romanoff has thus far refused to speak about the matter. (On Tuesday this week, Romanoff defeated Bennet in a Democratic Party straw poll 51% to 42%, even though Obama had campaigned for Bennet.)

On March 12, Sen. Arlen Specter, who is a former Philadelphia District Attorney and formerly chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that Sestak himself is guilty of a Federal crime if he has not reported the offer to the authorities. "There's a crime called misprision of a felony. Misprision of a felony is when you don't report a crime. So you're getting into pretty deep area here in these considerations."

Starting on Feb. 22, ABC White House correspondent Jake Tapper, and later also Fox News White House correspondent Major Garrett, have repeatedly asked White House press secretary Robert Gibbs for a reaction to the charge by Congressman Sestak. Since then, through March 17 (23 days), the last time he was asked, Gibbs has stonewalled in classic Ron Ziegler Nixonian style. On six separate occasions, Gibbs has said in one way or the other: "I don't have any more information on that." Many of these facts have been reported by the American Spectator.

If Gibbs knows that a job has been offered, and by whom, and doesn't report it to authorities, he himself is liable to prosecution.

Rep. Darrell Issa has now written a letter to White House Counsel Bauer demanding an answer by March 18, which deadline has come and gone. The letter includes the following questions:

"1. At any time did White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel have communications with Rep. Sestak about the 2010 race for the United States Senate? Identify the communications.

"2. At any time, did White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina have communications with Rep. Sestak about the 2010 race for the United States Senate? Identify the communications.

"3. At any time, did any official within the White House Office of Political Affairs have communications with Rep. Sestak about the 2010 race for the United States Senate? Identify the political officials and the communications.

"4. Identify any other individuals at the White House that had communications with Rep. Sestak about his bid for the United States Senate. For each individual, identify the communications.

"5. What position(s) was (were) Rep. Sestak offered in exchange for his commitment to leave the Senate race?

"6. Following Rep. Sestak's disclosure that he was offered a position in the President's Administration in exchange for bowing out of the 2010 race for the United States Senate, what, if any investigation did your office undertake to determine whether the criminal activity described by Rep. Sestak occurred?

"7. Do you expect to make a referral to the United States Department of Justice in this matter? When should we expect this referral?"

At this point, the heat is on. Both Sestak and Romanoff are liable to prosecution for misprision of a felony, unless they come forward. Gibbs cannot continue to stonewall. The White House Counsel Bauer has already missed Issa's deadline.

Messina is in the same position as Nixon's Chuck Colson, and Rahm Emanuel is in the same position as Nixon's H.R. Haldeman.

Could this be the overreaching hubristic mistake, which will force Obama to resign from the Presidency under threat of impeachment, as Lyndon LaRouche has demanded?