Democrats defend vote fraud and critize nominee for prosecuting it

Washington Times:

Senate Democrats yesterday interrogated -- and at times berated -- a senior Justice Department official whom they suspect of pressing charges in an election-fraud case just before the 2006 midterms in order to influence the results.
"The Department of Justice does not time prosecutions to elections," said Bradley J. Schlozman, who in 2006 was the interim U.S. attorney for Missouri's Western District.
"Well, yes they do," shouted Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat.
Mr. Leahy grew frustrated with Mr. Schlozman's inability to recall certain details, telling him that he was "trying to break Attorney General [Alberto] Gonzales' record of saying: 'I don't recall' or 'I don't remember.' "
Mr. Schlozman, who is now the acting assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, indicted four persons in Missouri on voter-fraud charges one week before the hotly contested 2006 U.S. Senate race won by Democrat Claire McCaskill.
During the two-hour hearing, which no Republican senators attended, Democrats read to Mr. Schlozman comments from a Republican press release after the indictments were made public.
The Missouri Republican Party criticized Mrs. McCaskill and state Democrats over the voter-fraud case, but Mr. Schlozman maintained that he did not intend to influence politics.
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Amazingly Leahy claimed that prosecuting the fraud might influence the election. Did it ever occur to him that the Democrat voter fraud was for the purpose of influencing the election? Of course it did. That is why he and the other Democrats are so insistent on trying to stop prosecution of voter fraud, because all the fraud benefits Democrats. One of the real arguments in favor of Vermont's proposal to withdraw as a state in the US would be to get rid of their two nutty senators including Leahy who is a disgrace.