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Christie leads Corzine so Congress goes on a witch hunt

All the polls show NJ Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie with double digit margins over incumbent Governor Jon Corzine. President Obama is "worried" about Corzine's re-election prospects. So since it appears that they can't beat Christie at the ballot box the Democrats are taking an alternate route.

Hyper-partisan Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) has summoned Mr. Christie to a hearing before his House Judiciary subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law to testify regarding some deferred prosecution agreements Christie negotiated during his tenure as U.S. Attorney for New Jersey.

Bill Pascrell and Frank Pallone just happen to be working hard to get Jon Corzine re-elected. No conflict of interest there, right?

John Conyers is second only to Rahm Emanuel as a partisan attack dog. He salivates at the idea of putting former President Bush and Vice President Cheney on trial for war crimes. His interest in Mr. Christie's tenure as U.S. Attorney has very little to do with any actual concern for investigating potential wrong-doing (Christie followed the law to the letter). It is purely geared toward digging up dirt that Corzine can use in his re-election bid.

He's on a witch hunt and an exercise in mud-slinging set up to give Corzine the maximum amount of time to exploit any potentially damaging allegations that may arise. Conyers (and Pascrell and Pallone) will be grandstanding for just the right 30 second sound bite that Corzine then can package into an effective TV spot.

It's sleazy, it's underhanded, and much like the IG firings it's exactly what we've come to expect from Barack Obama and the Democrats. They are out to win (or retain) power at all costs; whether the citizens win or lose isn't really any of their concern.

Posted at 12:15 by Chris Wysocki   [/election]   Comments | Archived | Perm Link |
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