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Obama Now Selling Judgeships for Health Care Votes?
Obama names brother of undecided House Dem to Appeals Court.

BY John McCormack
March 3, 2010 6:15 PM

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.

“Scott Matheson is a distinguished candidate for the Tenth Circuit court,” President Obama said. “Both his legal and academic credentials are impressive and his commitment to judicial integrity is unwavering. I am honored to nominate this lifelong Utahn to the federal bench.”

Scott M. Matheson, Jr.: Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Scott M. Matheson currently holds the Hugh B. Brown Presidential Endowed Chair at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1985. He served as Dean of the Law School from 1998 to 2006. He also taught First Amendment Law at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government from 1989 to 1990.

While on public service leave from the University of Utah from 1993 to 1997, Matheson served as United States Attorney for the District of Utah. In 2007, he was appointed by Governor Jon Huntsman to chair the Utah Mine Safety Commission. He also worked as a Deputy County Attorney for Salt Lake County from 1988 to 1989. Prior to joining the University faculty, Matheson was an associate attorney from 1981 to 1985 at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, D.C.

Matheson was born and raised in Utah and is a sixth generation Utahn. He received an A.B. from Stanford University in 1975, an M.A. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1980.

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 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.

http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-now-selling-appeals-court-judgeships-health-care-votes

Credit: Drudge

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Edited by Mason, Mar 3 2010, 06:40 PM.
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This is the second time he has bribed a congressman. He officer Joseph Sestak D PA. the job of Secretary of the Navy, if he would not run against Arlen Spector in the democratic primary. Now this, Obama is an absolute disgrace to the Oval Office. I wouldn't even allow him in there to clean it.
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""Whatever it takes to get health care done" said Press Secretary Robert Gibbs."



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May I draw folks attention to a rather sobering interview this evening on Mark Levins show . Levin interviewed Dr. John Lott who was at the same university as Obama. It was a real eye opener in that Lott concludes that Obama was to the left of every left wing professor on the campus.

The Mark Levin Show recorded tonight will be available free later this evening on his web site. It is well worth the effort to listen and digest. you may require a stiff drink prior to the interview, I certainly required one after the interview. The MSM has an awful lot to answer for for covering all this up.


http://www.marklevinshow.com/home.asp

http://www.marklevinshow.com/sectional.asp?id=32930#

You can listen under the link, Catch the Replay 24/7

I think the interview commences at around the 90 minute mark and went on for quite some time. Dr. John Lott was very insightful into Obama Socialist/Marxist roots at the University. I came away from the interview with the feeling that Obama has been groomed for a political career from very early in his life and we now see the results.

I found the interview to be of concern and some what alarming as it gave a real insight into a very cold and calculating person who is on a mission, with health care being to the key to the door to control us all .


Dr, Lott infered that Obama has a problem LISTENING ! What a surprise?
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Obama is a radical and always has been.

He might as well be one of the career angry-studies professors at Howard U.

He knows nothing except for fables and disproved social theories. It may not be in our lifetime, but at some point history will ask where the Free Press was during Obama's rise and reign.


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This stinks, I hope whoever is running against him makes this a major issue.
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Media Matters ADMITS Barack Obama Has Bribed Congressman Jim Matheson

The Great Gavel Giveaway of 2010 is looking more and more like Gavelgate

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/03/04/media-matters-admits-barack-obama-has-bribed-congressman-jim-matheson/
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"95 percent of the electorate doesn’t understand what reconciliation is. Everybody gets bribery."

Good point by that commenter...

These bribes are a good way to attack Obama...
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