Boom. Boom Boom Boom.
Rachel Maddow, Bill Maher, and the rest of the useful idiots may wish to sniff off the ideological ties between “Fast and Furious” and the adamant gun-control agenda of people like Holder or Dennis Burke. And the thinking conservatives wishing to avoid the taint of “conspiracy mongering” may work extra hard to show skepticism over any such border enforcement/domestic policy overlap.
But the truth is, we are dealing with people who always believe they’re the smartest people in the room — and I have next to no doubt that Fast and Furious was conceived of as a way to kill two birds with one stone: evince a commitment to border security by “targeting the cartels,” with the added “benefit” that US guns showing up at bloody kill sites would provide the impetus for weapons bans and more draconian gun laws being pushed by the Left.
When the real world didn’t cooperate with the drawing room strategy of our betters — imagine, cartel members didn’t stick to their assigned roles in this little nanny-state morality play, and decided to kill a US Border Patrol Agent — Holder, et al., rushed to cover up the program and kick the culpability for any foul-ups down to lower level functionaries. The assertion of Executive Privilege by the President implicates him at least so far as he’s willing to risk the misuse of Executive Privilege to protect Holder and others.
Keep the pressure on. Obama may win re-election, but that doesn’t mean we the people need let him assume he’s permitted to act extra-Constitutionally.
This kind of conspiracy would have worked only with an ignorant populace. It further demonstrates the contempt they hold for the American people.
The MFM are of course complicit. They could have reported how little sense it would make for cartels to buy weapons in the U.S. when living in such a corrupt nation as Mexico where full-auto AK-47s and M-16s are widely and cheaply available on the black market, while straw-bought weapons are at least a magnitude more expensive and semi-auto only (criminals love full-auto because they think it makes them more bad-ass). They could have reported that the number of guns that can be traced to civilian U.S. sale is a tiny fraction of the guns that are in the hands of drug criminals. However, that would have gone against their narrative.
One big reason the progressives do so well is that they have a complicit media to shill for them. A free society requires a free and, if not objective, at least adversarial press. I would rather the press attacked all in power and dug deep against everyone, including the people they tend to like personally. If they were doing their jobs, we wouldn’t be here now.
At least Victor Davis Hanson isn’t lying to himself about all this good news for Republicans!
Read the whole thing, but the link goes to page three on Fast ‘n’ Furious.
http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/good-news-what-good-news/3/
Supreme Court Justice Roberts may find comfort in this; protesting against whores will get the Secret Service involved…
Made me think think of another dichotomy.
Two federal protection agencies; one protects the country’s borders, one protects the country’s temporary political representative. One is told to take a bullet if they must to do their duty. The other is told to run and hide under threat.
I find it illuminating of our ruling elite’s mind set. They have no intention of living under the conditions they mandate on the rest of us.
That is excellent, Lee. It gets its own post.
Kinda like how Obama used an executive order to protect Holder, but they don’t remember Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry ‘s name.
http://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/2012/07/more-ties-between-obama-administration.html I linked this just to get the word out more. The public really does not get Fast and Furious (it sounds sort of crazy because it is crazy), but that does not mean we should let this one go. We need to keep explaining it till they do get it.
I’ve asked this before; which cartel benefited from this program. Was it indescriminate, (hardly likely, they knew who selling and who was buying), or were the weapons targeted to a specific cartel or cartels? There is a reason the Mexican government is fighting the drug war with their Navy.