| Every NJ Democrat Plan Wizzes On the Law |
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October 2, 2002 |
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On Tuesday, lawyers for the Democrats argued for breaking the law and lawyers for Republicans argued for upholding it before the New Jersey Supreme Court. Two of the justices on this court contributed a grand to Torricelli's campaign before they were named to the court, but of course, they won't recuse themselves.
 It's Florida all over again. The Democrats are saying the law doesn't matter; Republicans are saying that it's all that matters. This conflict is going to end up going to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Now, these justices in New Jersey know what a bunch of idiots the Florida Supreme Court was, and that if they don't have bulletproof ruling, they'll be reversed and humiliated. The Republicans, unfortunately, are in the same position they always find themselves: backing the law regardless of politics while their opponents want to change the rules.
These anti-democratic Democrats are going to call the New Jersey Statute on elections and Article I: Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution which sets the Senate term at six years, "technicalities." Republicans will say, "the law is a law," and Democrats will say, "Oh, come on! This law was never intended to keep a Democrat candidate who might lose on the ballot!" There are rules and a certification deadline, you guys. You have a candidate. The people elected him in a primary, and now you're disenfranchising them! |
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| Democratic Governor Will Try to Bend U.S. Constitution |
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Newspapers across the country are reporting that if the cadaver, Frank Lautenberg, ends up being prevented from getting on the ballot for the November election, the Democrats have yet another plan to subvert the will of the people. We'll call this "Plan Q." Torricelli will quit, Governor McGreevey will appoint Lautencadaver or some other Democrat to fill his seat, and then McGreevey, under New Jersey law, will cancel this November's election and date a new one for November 2003.
 This would be a flagrant violation of the U.S. Constitution, which sets the Senate term at six years in Article I: Section 3. Each Senate term is six years long, no matter how many different people fill that term. McCreepy can't use New Jersey state law to extend the term of Torricelli's federal service one minute beyond that term.
"Well, Rush...like...Thomas Jefferson never really meant the Constitution to work that way, and William Shakespeare said, 'When ye are losething, trampelith on the law to keep the extremist Republicans from the gates." Of course, James Madison wrote the Constitution, not Jefferson – and Shakespeare never wrote any such thing. But that won't matter to our Oprahized and emotional nation.
Whoever tugs the most heartstrings wins. Never mind that there's no law anywhere that says Democrats or Republicans or Whigs or independents or Reformers or Free-Soilers deserve a place on the ballot. We'll be told that it's not "fair" that a Democrat isn't on the ballot, and the reality that a Democrat is on the ballot won't matter one bit.
Democrats think that public opinion overrides the law any time the law is in their way. Republicans point out the issue of disenfranchising absentee voters from overseas servicemen and women. That's an emotional issue, which also has the benefit of being based in fact. But Democrats will print new ballots, or simply disenfranchise those voters – because, again, what's their right to vote when weighed against Democrats keeping power?
Nothing to these people is more important than that. Nothing. |
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