Dakota Beacon

Word has just come down from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s office that he has decided NOT to appoint anyone to serve out the late Democrat Senator Frank Lautenberg’s term. 

When Lautenberg’s death was announced it appeared to be a potential game-changer.  The division in the Senate has been 45 Republicans and 55 Democrats.  Not every Democrat is happy with the way things are looking vis-à-vis the Obama administration of late.  We have admissions that the IRS has been potentially manipulating election outcomes via their “service”, which encompasses hounding Tea Party organizations, pro-life, pro-Second Amendment groups, pro-Israel groups, and taxpayer’s advocates.  Any we know what hounding by the IRS means.  It means you will not go to the rally.  Now we know that they even use polling information to select their prey.  So even voting is an invitation to this kind of persecution. 

If the IRS weren’t enough, we have considerable consternation over the handling of the Benghazi attack and our own national security.  We have on deck for a vote a “comprehensive” immigration reform act which has the potential to bring down our nation all on its own.  We have a fiscal crisis no one has ever experienced before looming on our horizon.  Our government’s regulations are strangling small businesses – even those who have not been zeroed in on by the IRS – causing an unemployment and economic situation which is breaking down families across America.  Meanwhile we have an openly abusive TSA violating our persons at our own airports and yet are blind to drug cartels’ agents and hit men pouring across the Mexican border.  We invite our Al Qaeda enemies over to study in our colleges while our own people stand in line.  This is the work of the Democrats, who have enjoyed the position of power while most of this was created.  This is what we must fight.

Only a week ago we had people like Laura Ingraham and other “reasonable” Conservatives somewhat defending Christie’s stroll down the Jersey Shore with Obama.  It looked like the old-time summer at the beach, with Obama chatting informally, joking with the folks, promising more great things.  Christie was obviously the subservient “Igor” to his “Frankenstein”.  They were a happy pair.  We all know that Christie was a prostitute buying what he could for New Jersey, and thus offering his voters a selfish incentive to keep him in office.  Obama clearly held the strings and the prostitute was his puppet.

Suddenly a crisis occurs.  The 89-year-old succumbed without much notice to complications due to viral pneumonia, his powerful vote, now lost to Harry Reid, at least for the moment.  Now, when the costs of Obamacare are emerging, now, when the IRS has been unmasked, now when the public opinion is beginning to awaken in an awareness of the need for preservation of our republic, now an opportunity comes out of the blue, one might argue a reprieve from God himself, to make a difference in the outcome.

Christie knows how politics works in New Jersey.  The fix, he knows, is IN.  There is little chance that Mr. and Mrs. New Jersey, anxiously waiting, hat-in-hand, will send anyone to Washington that Obama wouldn’t approve.  There is a certain cynical wisdom in delaying relief as long as possible, rather than effecting efficient rebuilding after a disaster, that is, if your object is control of the victims of that disaster.  So Obama was not going to allow Christie to fulfill his responsibilities.

Instead of appointing a Conservative, or even a Republican, to serve this term, Christie is acquiescing to Obama’s demand that he stand down.  And, ever obedient to his master, Christie has announced he is doing just that.  He is abdicating his responsibility to the voters who elected HIM as Governor of their state.  One of the responsibility of a governor is to appoint successors to seats vacated for any reason, in the Senate.  Nikki Haley, of South Carolina did this when Jim DeMint stepped down.  Deval Patrick did when Ted Kennedy died.  It is standard practice.  A departure from this would have to be an abnormality.

This act of cowardice or acquiescence – call it what you will – on the part of Christie will most likely result in a vote in October’s special election heavily skewed toward accommodating Papa Obama.  After all, they want money to put into rebuilding their businesses and homes.  They want to avoid the long arm of the IRS.  They want to keep a happy equilibrium with the Guy Who Makes Things Happen .  They want good things to happen.  They don’t want bad things to happen – to them – right away, at least.

But in the long term, Christie’s abdication and the likelihood of a similar sell-out by the captive, struggling people of New Jersey in October, will spell a strengthening of the Obama position in the Senate, rather than an opportunity to push back against this aggressive and totalitarian regime. 

I’m sure that Christie got a phone call.  We all know, from watching him last week, what he said.  Now he’s announced it to us.  There will be no appointment by Christie.  He will attempt to hide his near-criminal negligence and non-feasance behind the inadequate fig leaf of a special election. 

I hope serious Conservatives will call this man and apprise him of the fact that he’s fooling no one.  He knows where he stands with Obama.  He knows where his voters stand with Obama.  He knows the consequences of his failure to act.  Let’s let him know we know exactly what he is.