Who will be left at the end?

The federal law which clearly pertains to White House efforts to limit our choices on political candidates to the ones favored by the White House:

Federal law makes it a crime for anyone "who directly or indirectly promises any employment, position, compensation, contract, appointment, or any other benefit" to someone else to do so "as consideration, favor, or reward for any political activity or for the support of or opposition to any candidate or any political party in connection with any general or special election to any political office."

It is also illegal for a government official to use "his official authority for the purpose of interfering with, or affecting, the nomination or the election of any candidate."

The above quotes are from a May 30 Denver Post story misleadingly headlined "Boundaries murky in Sestak case." Murky? It is the opposite of murky! The law is crystal clear in the Sestak case and the Romanoff case in Colorado, and the next domino to fall will come in the Blagojevich trial in Chicago, which begins today. Rahm Emmanuel has been subpoenaed. Romanoff and Sestak still hope for White House support in their bids to become U.S. Senators. The Blagojevich case is very different. While no criminal charges are being levied against Romanoff or Sestak, who appear to have been innocent victims of White House efforts to bribe them not to run for Senate, Blagojevich faces serious jail time if he is convicted of trying to sell President Barack Obama's former Senate seat. Blagojevich seems like the kind of guy who would not hesitate to bring down a President if it means saving his own a.. er, I mean, preserving his own freedom. His lawyers plan to ask White House Chief of Staff Emmanuel if he pressured Blagojevitch to nominate Obama friend Valerie Jarrett to the vacant seat.