Brad Sherman (D-CA 27) Disconnected

Now, no one will argue that our CongressCritters in Washington have a lot on their plate. There’s those pressing committee meetings and floor votes which impose greater and greater restrictions on the American people, freedoms to strip away through health care bills and financial regulatory reform… ya know, important stuff like that. Then there’s all the hobknobbing that’s gotta be done with all those union bosses and corporate chieftans so that they can raise enough money to get re-elected. I mean, it’s hard to get it all done in one day.

But is it asking too much for these guys to have at least a cursory knowledge of things that are going on around them. I mean, I know they’re busy and everything but perhaps they could find just a little time on their agenda to keep tabs on the minor details in life…like, is the Department of Justice actually administering justice in this country in an unprejudicious way?

Most people who have their pulse on the day-to-day goings on have by now heard that the DOJ has decided not to prosecute the rather egregious incident of voter intimidation which occurred during the 2008 election outside a Philadelphia polling place where members of the New Black Panther Party in paramilitary uniforms (one brandishing a nightstick) made threatening comments to white voters (and one black Republican poll watcher) who were coming to vote. What did not bode well for the perpetrators of this little exercise in “democracy” was that their actions were recorded on videotape.

This incident was so outrageous that J. Christian Adams, a career attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department said it was the most clear cut of voter intimidation he had ever seen. Unfortunately, the Obama Justice Department, under the leadership of Attorney General Eric Holder, dropped injunctions against two of the “suspects” and reduced the injunction against the NBPP member who was brandishing the nightstick. According to testimony given by Mr. Adams last week to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, this wasn’t an accident:

“I was told by Voting Section management that cases are not going to be brought against Black defendants for the benefit of White victims. That if somebody wanted to bring these cases, it was up to the US Attorney but the Civil Rights Division wasn’t going to be bringing it.”

Now, one would think that something of this magnitude would cross the radar screen of elected officials who have sworn to defend the Constitution and the notion of liberty and justice for all. But apparently, Brad Sherman (D-CA 27), hasn’t quite had the time among his other duties to learn about what’s going on in the Justice Department being run by his party.

Here is Congressman Sherman’s response during a townhall meeting to a constituent’s question regarding this case (h/t Power Line):

Say that again, Congressman Sherman? You didn’t know that had happened and you’re certain that there would be no policy in the DOJ where justice wasn’t being administered on a color-blind basis?

Come now.

There can be only two logical explanations for Mr. Sherman’s answer: he’s either lying through his teeth or he is totally disconnected from reality. The good news for the good people of CA-CD 27? Mark Reed isn’t disconnected from reality and Mark Reed is a rock-ribbed conservative who will level with his constituents when they ask him a question.

Brad Sherman? Not so much.

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