Vindictive Charges Against Menendez Stink Of Chicago Politics
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03/09/2015 06:53 PM ET
Sen.
Bob Menendez leaves after his news conference in Newark, N.J. on
Friday. The federal government is expected to bring criminal charges
alleging... View Enlarged Image
Just who do these people think they are fooling?
As word leaked of coming corruption charges against Menendez — supposedly for using his Senate office to advance the business interests of a Democratic donor in exchange for gifts — the mind turns to the same sort of allegations against Democrat Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, New York Democrats Charles Rangel and Charles Schumer, and the husband of House Democratic Minority Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
None of those political animals is facing charges, nor do they have any fear of it.
Why? Because, it seems, they toe the party line.
The same goes for Attorney General Eric Holder — whose Justice Department literally shipped weapons to Mexico's cartels, leaving 200 dead.
Don't forget Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, who, as secretary of state, ran a shadow e-mail server out of her house to conceal her activities — possibly financial — from taxpayers.
Add IRS official Lois Lerner, who used her office to persecute political dissidents in the Tea Party, and former EPA officials who used pseudonymous e-mails even as they plotted to take over large swaths of the economy, and the picture is clear.
They skate while Menendez gets charged. The one Democrat who dared stand up to President Obama on his atrocious cave-in deal with Iran, as well as his no-preconditions diplomatic relations with Cuba and his abuse of Israel, suddenly faces corruption charges.
Washington insiders say that the plan against Menendez is to get him removed as the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where, knowing foreign policy, he has had no choice but to oppose the president's policies that run counter to U.S. interests — even as the president fantasizes about getting another Nobel Peace prize or a Nixon-In-China place in history.
Muscling a critic like this smacks of Stalin-style show trials, where offenders suddenly fall from favor to become nonpersons. It smacks of Argentina's Medici-politics of silencing its president's prosecutor.
And going after Menendez is little more than dirty Chicago-style politics that's so obvious to everyone it stinks. It's got to stop.
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