Because kicking butt is now the official policy in Washington, DC, let’s see how well they are doing.
The State of Arizona has enacted a new state law that gives state officials the permission to enforce federal law. The Justice Department is filing suit, and the governor of Arizona says, “I look forward to seeing you in court.”
After the oil spill, Mr. Obama and his “Administration” stonewalled local initiatives to clean up the mess, using environmental and jurisdictional maneuvers to stop them. They refused to suspend the Jones Act, a 1920s law that prohibits foreign flagged ships from operating in American waters, even though over 20 countries offered help. They have refused permission to local authorities to clean up their own beaches, and the states and municipalities have decided to act anyway, “even if they put us in handcuffs.”
Former allies Turkey and Brazil have negotiated a separate nuclear deal with Iran calculated to disrupt American initiatives through the United Nations for stronger sanctions.
North Korea torpedoes a South Korean vessel, and other than a few initial screeches of disgust, nothing else happens. China pointedly refuses to condemn the act, then refuses to meet with the U.S. Secretary of Defense.
Despite the “Administration’s” diplomatic snubs and threats, Israel continues to build homes where policymakers in their ivory towers say they shouldn’t.
Mexico’s President is allowed to question the Second Amendment before the US Congress and assails Arizona for attempting to protect itself from an invasion of Mexican drug lords, and we hear no protest from the executive branch.
The British openly speak of the end of the “special relationship”, while the “Administration” bashes one of their largest companies, insults the Queen and the Prime Minister with cheap gifts, and returns a bust of Churchill to the British Embassy.
He chastises the American people for their use of fossil fuels and tells them to stay close to home -- and never go to Las Vegas -- but he takes Air Force one on jaunts to New York for a dinner date and lets it buzz the Statue of Liberty, scaring to death New Yorkers wary of another 9-11. His wife jets off to Paris for a shopping trip, and he hops over the Copenhagen for a quick trip to sell Chicago as the ideal site for the Olympics, which pitch was immediately rejected on the first ballot.
The President of Afghanistan threatens to join the Taliban. Iraq is turning into another bloodfest, federal spending is two times tax receipts, areas of the US hit by natural disasters are virtually ignored (especially if they are red states), anyone who disagrees is labeled an enemy or worse, and Chicago-style politics and pay-offs have infected the national scene.
Advice to this “Administration”: Do not start a butt-kicking contest if you don’t have a leg to stand on.
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