Rob Andrews Abandons Liberty in Favor of Government Power
Here’s a riddle for New Jersey Democrats: What happens when you allow an incumbent politician to go unchallenged?
Don’t worry. There’s no trick to this riddle. The answer is all too obvious: The politician loses all sense of responsibility to the people.
Rob Andrews proves the point. He’s the Democratic incumbent in the House of Representatives for New Jersey’s first congressional district. At the close of this autumn’s session of Congress, Rob Andrews served his constituents very ill indeed.
Rob Andrews abandoned the mainstream of the Democratic Party and voted for the Military Commissions Act. The Military Commissions Act does the following:
In essence, Rob Andrews voted to end American liberty and to give George W. Bush the powers of a dictator. That’s bad enough. What’s more disturbing is that he’s going to get away with it. I guarantee it.
How can I be so certain?
No one bothered to run against Rob Andrews this year. Not a Democrat in the primary election, and not a Republican in the general election. This year, voters in New Jersey’s first congressional district will have no choice but to vote for Rob Andrews or not to vote for anyone at all.
On his campaign web site, designed for his competition against no one at all, Congressman Andrews states that “I believe that the federal government should play a balanced role by protecting the rights of every citizen.” What he doesn’t state is that he believes that revoking centuries-old American freedoms as a “balanced” act by the federal government.
Representative Andrews ought to be ashamed of himself. He ought to, but he doesn’t. He has no reason to feel ashamed, because there’s no one in the Democratic Party or the Republican Party to hold him accountable.
For that, the Democrats and Republicans of New Jersey’s first congressional district ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Date: October 4, 2006
Categories: democrats, election 2006, general, legislation
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