SOME NERVE

If you go out on a date, aren't you supposed to dance with the one who "brung" ya?

Our country has been on a torturous date with our leader for 4.5 years now.  But he doesn't seem to be any keener about us; he consistently goes about apologizing for his date.

Today he apologized to Mexico.  That's right, Mexico.  Incredibly, he apologized to folks who break our laws WHILE WE FEED AND HOUSE AND FUND HEALTHCARE AND HIGHER EDUCATION for them.  It's almost too much to believe.  He apologized and blamed Mexico's gun violence on America because we demand their drugs and...then with the nerves of a burglar in daylight, he said their guns came from us.

"Most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States," President Obama said during a speech at Mexico's Anthropology Museum. "I think many of you know that in America, our Constitution guarantees our individual right to bear arms. And as president, I swore an oath to uphold that right, and I always will."

"But at the same time, as I’ve said in the United States, I will continue to do everything in my power to pass common-sense reforms that keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. That can save lives here in Mexico and back home in the United States. It’s the right thing to do," Obama added."

Could we remember HIS program, "Fast and Furious"?  Do folks realize the differences between a program during the Bush administration called "Wide Receiver" and the Obama program called "Fast and Furious"?

Wide Receiver was an effort to join forces with Mexican law enforcement in order to get a handle on gun smuggling and drug cartels.  It began in 2005 and involved 400 guns which had a GPS within them to track/keep law enforcement aware of their whereabouts.  The plan was to see where the guns ended so they could make their case against the cartels.  The Bush administration notified the Mexican governments when the arms and smugglers crossed the border.  They made 1,400 arrests.  When ATF realized the bad guys were disabling the tracking devices, RFID tracking devices were installed to destroy guns when they attempted to disarm them.  The program was shut down in 2007 when the smugglers got wise and could outsmart the guns.

THE PURPOSE OF 'WIDE RECEIVER' WAS TO WORK WITH MEXICAN LAW ENFORCEMENT IN ORDER TO TRACK AND BUILD A CASE AGAINST VIOLENT DRUG SMUGGLERS.

What about Fast and Furious?  It began in October of 2009 (AFTER Wide Receiver had been shut down in 2007) and involved 2,000 guns with NO tracking devices and no effort to track them.  The guns were sold and walked across the border.  The Mexican government was not notified the program existed.  Federal agents werre not allowed to interdict the guns and they even ran interference for the smugglers with local law enforcement on multiple occasions to make sure those guns made it across the border.  No effort was ever made to arrest the "purchasers" or the smugglers or anyone.  NONE were arrested.  It was closed down only after the deaths of at least 200 Mexican citizens and two federal agents, Border Agent Brian Terry and ICE Agent, Jaime Zapata.

THE PURPOSE OF FAST AND FURIOUS IS UNKNOWN.

This picture is of the brave ATF whistleblowers who testified to Congress about Fast and Furious. 

It is hard to get to the bottom of this case because the president has invoked executive privilege and our Attorney General denies knowing about it.  We have "outrage deficit" because there are so many issues flying in our face daily.  But we know that Fast and Furious bore no resemblance to Wide Receiver. 

The bottom line is...if Fast and Furious was our law enforcement program, it did not play out in OUR country, but in Mexico where over 200 innocent citizens died.  TWO HUNDRED!

AND THE PRESIDENT STOOD BEFORE MEXICANS TODAY AND UNASHAMEDLY ACTED LIKE HE WAS TAKING CHARGE OF PROTECTING THEM...RATHER THAN HAVING COOKED UP THE VERY PROGRAM WHICH SENT GUNS INTO THEIR COUNTRY. 

And then he said his reform would "save lives in Mexico because it is the right thing to do".