Obama's Failed "Fast and Furious" Effort - Waiting for the Jokes

Where's your smirk, Jon?

Cue Jon Stewart:

Let's take a short walk along memory lane, shall we?

Back to the days where Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama weren't the good pals they are today, back before Hillary was Obama's Secretary of State.

Back when Barack Obama was betraying his disdain for the great middle class of the United States of America, stating during the Democratic primaries, "It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."


Well.

Hillary Clinton suggested these remarks painted Barack as an elitist. 

Elitist, Hillary? Just because he stereotypes blue collar middle class Americans as gun-crazed bigots?

Surely you jest.

And, let's be honest, they are a bunch of bigots, aren't they?  Fabricating fears over Mexican immigrants engaging in drug wars back and forth across the U.S. border where clearly, there's no such drug war going on - and if so, the wars certainly aren't connected to any of the good (albeit illegal) immigrants in the southern U.S. border states.

That's just bigoted white middle class paranoia.  "Bitterness" over a failed Bush economic plan turned against immigrants and creating an unhealthy demand for guns.

Barack's answer?

Take away their guns, and give them to Mexican drug cartels.

I kid you not.

They called it "Operation Fast and Furious".  An operation that went so amazingly bad, that just today, we are hearing that Obama's appointee, ATF Director Kenneth Melson will soon be resigning his post.

Isn't that cute?  An ATF operation naming itself after a movie glorifying reckless, illegal behaviour by law enforcement officials, under the heading, "the ends justify the means".

But, apparently, the use of the name is pretty accurate - as that's just what Obama and his Department of Justice planned to do.

Except in this case it wasn't just flashy cars - it was guns.  Thousands of semi-automatic weapons were intentionally put into the hands of known gun traffickers, with the INTENTION of allowing them to move them to drug cartels in Mexico. 

You heard right.

The U.S. Government was intentionally giving guns to Mexican drug cartels.

The "idea", (can you have a complete absence of brain activity and still call it an "idea"?) was to then track the guns to the cartels to figure out just how many guns are, in fact, finding their way to Mexico.

Problem is there was no real tracking ability - just let the guns go, wait for the bodies to pile up and hope that some of the guns can get traced back.

Second problem is that no one told the Mexican government that we were sending weapons into their country.

What happened?

Well.

About what you would expect.

The guns got into Mexico two of those guns were found at the scene where ATF Agent Brian Terry was murdered.  You heard right.  Guns that Barack Obama gave Mexican drug cartels were then used in a gun battle with drug runners that then resulted in the shooting death of the agent last December.

What?

No laughs, Jon Stewart?

No laughs, Bill Maher?

Where is that new mocumentary Michael Moore - where you stand around in Cuba and remark on how safe it is there because Fidel Castro doesn't give guns to drug traffickers and murderers like Barack Obama does.

Oh.  That's right. 

It's only funny when you're making fun of a stupid REPUBLICAN President.

When Barack Obama's administration is found to be farcically incompetent - well, that's just met with deafening silence.

Of course, there is more important news to cover, like Anthony Wiener's tweets and Tracy Morgan's rude comments.

*tapping microphone*

Is this thing on...?