With today's release of statements by the White House Counsel and Congressman Joe Sestak regarding the no-pay for no-play Pennsylvania Senate contest, Sestakgate is emerging as a non-scandal. After all, in 1982 President Ronald Reagan offered Senator S.I. Hayakawa a job if he dropped out of the California GOP primary. And as CREW director Melanie Sloan suggested, there's no "there" here because the position in question was unpaid. But for Republican Darrell Issa, the imbroglio is very personal. After all, no one promised Arnold Schwarzeneggar a job to prevent the Terminator from taking the California Governor's office Issa coveted.
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