I'm a little disturbed hearing about the Justice Dept's
roundup of sex offenders culminating in a massive arrest within a week of the election. Knowing how this administration works, everything it does is geared toward politics, and this is just too much of a coincidence. I'm partly reminded of the story in October of NCLB grants
finally being distributed to teachers in battleground congresional districts.
But in this case, the downside isn't just a delayed payments, it would mean that the DOJ knowingly left these known fugitive sex offenders out on the street - even after knowing where they were, until the moment when they could make a mass-arrest just before the election and grab the headlines going into the weekend before the election. Leaving these criminals on the street means endangering the nation's children, echoing the Foley scandal in making clear that having sexual predators on the street stalking our children is a lower priority to the Republicans than winning in November.