Obama, Democrats target GOP foes with phony scandals

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Washington Times:

Who are President Obama and the Democrats most afraid of? That’s easy to see: Just find the Republicans they target with phony scandals.

 

Like Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell. Or New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Or Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Or, now, Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

 

Let’s take them in order. Mr. McDonnell had been steadily rising on the radar, running Virginia with a steady hand and making a name in the GOP. He crushed his Democratic opponent by 17 points in the 2009 election, a year after Mr. Obama surprisingly took the state. Unemployment dropped from 7.4 percent to 5.2 percent under his watch, and his name started to float about as a contender for the 2012 vice presidential nomination.

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Rick Perry and Our Dysfunctional Politics

 

had two initial responses to the outrageous indictment of Texas Governor Rick Perry. One was to feel the same outrage about the criminalization of politics that John Steele Gordon discussed yesterday. The other was to assume that the prospect of this prosecution, no matter how unfair it would prove to be, would derail his hopes for another run at the presidency. However, I might have been wrong about the second item and the reason for that re-evaluation speaks volumes about how dysfunctional our political system has begun.

 

First, let’s not mince words about the egregious nature of the indictment and what it means about the way out-of-control prosecutors can derail democracy. It should be remembered that what happened here was that at its heart is a Democratic prosecutor who had disgraced her office with a drunk driving violation and abusive behavior toward police but then refused to resign. Perry used a threat of a veto of her budget to try and force that resignation. The special prosecutor in the case alleges that using that threat — something that was obviously in service of the public good — was an illegal abuse of power by Perry. That is absurd and you have to be a hardcore Democratic partisan to think that it is even remotely reasonable for a prosecutor to try and treat a public policy dispute — especially one in which the governor was clearly on the side of ethics — is a criminal matter.

 

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/08/18/rick-perry-and-our-dysfunctional-politics-indictment/