Under The Radar [John E.]

A lot of people are having a hard time embracing the theory that Operation Fast & Furious was nothing more than a backdoor attack on the second amendment. I understand why. It seems like too large a conspiracy to be believable and it's hard to wrap your head around that level of corruption and evil.

Then you read a story like this one.

On March 30, the 30th anniversary of the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, Jim Brady, who sustained a debilitating head wound in the attack, and his wife, Sarah, came to Capitol Hill to push for a ban on the controversial “large magazines.” Brady, for whom the law requiring background checks on handgun purchasers is named, then met with White House press secretary Jay Carney. During the meeting, President Obama dropped in and, according to Sarah Brady, brought up the issue of gun control, “to fill us in that it was very much on his agenda,” she said.

“I just want you to know that we are working on it,” Brady recalled the president telling them. “We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar.” 

I suppose Obama could have just been lying to Brady. He, um, sort of has that tendency. He could also have meant something else by "under the radar". But, shouldn't a reporter be asking what else he might have meant? That would require an honest press, of course.

We're being told we have to choose between two competing theories: "criminal incompetence" and "unthinkable corruption". I have a serious question - Why can't it be both?

Unthinkable corruption executed with criminal incompetence. Doesn't that pretty much sum up this Administration?

posted by Guest Blogger at 04:31 PM

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