Ex-senator's return to N.J. political fray illustrates sharp battles to reshape Congress (Ethics)

At 78 years old and well into his retirement from the U.S. Senate, Frank Lautenberg wasn't supposed to be here, extending his hand to bleary-eyed commuters rushing to their trains Thursday morning as the sun peeked over the Manhattan skyline across the Hudson River.

The tensions were evident in New Jersey this week after the state Supreme Court ruled that election law was vague enough to allow Lautenberg to replace Torricelli on the ballot even though the change comes after a deadline in state statutes. Republicans said it was an attempt to change the dynamics of an election that Democrats were bound to lose. Democrats said the GOP was trying to deny voters a Democratic choice in November.

If you knew nothing about this, what would you think after reading this paragraph?

Our son is attending college in another state. Ever since he was able to vote, we have encouraged him to do so , telling him that's his duty as a citizen. This year he has dutifully requested an absentee ballot from New Jersey and mailed it in before the Democrats replaced Torricelli with Lautenberg.

We can't even begin to tell you how angry and disappointed he is at this shenanigan. We have tried to instill in him a sense of confidence in the American system of politics, and naively tried to convince him that the rules are usually fair, and that the best should normally win. But after Florida, now New Jersey! We have a sickening feeling that the likes of McGreevey and the New Jersey Supreme Court have succeeded in completely removing any idealism left in our child.

How dare they presume that we would be so stupid as to buy their specious arguments? Do they even think that their sophistry can pass for wisdom? They can't even fool someone who is barely getting out of his teens!

That the democrat party lies and has shills infesting the fourth estate who are hell-bent to assit their despotic demagods.

Senate Ethics Committee ``severely admonished'' him in July... The despotic democrat party holds the chair on such committees and they 'thought'/were counting on merely admonishing one of their criminal buddies so that he could continue in office. The manipulations and corruption failed, but the despots had another card in their criminal deck, their shills in the NJSC would allow a well-beyond-deadline (dead means nothing to democrat criminals, so many still vote in their camp don'tcha know) substitution on the ballot, proving irrevocably that democrats consider any person's vote for a democrat candidate a vote really for the party and their despotic rule. THAT is the real issue here, democrat despotic rule, committing voters for democrats to a serfdom politics.

Who is disenfranchised by the criminal ruling by the NJSC?... The democrat voters who voted in the primaries, the republican candidate and his supporters who have donated their money/free speech to support him against a typical criminal democrat (a criminal being enabled by Daschle despotic rule in the Senate, so it is no wonder the criminal enterprise party will do ANYTHING to hold onto their power), the voters who've already cast ballots, the NJ Legislature that has been swept from relevance by the activist criminal enterprise court of NJ, and ultimately THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, because this democrat anti-American/anti-Constitutional effort to sweep aside the law will raise its ugly, socialist/criminal head every time the Democrats don't get what they want or see a way to subvert the process if they can get their criminal supporters to facilitate them. The actions by the despotic democrats in NJ is THE LEGACY OF GORE IN 2000 .... but actually goron is so stupid, we know it was the despots of democrat party behind it all along and the NJ enterprise proves it conclusively!

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