Tone Deaf

According to George Orwell: “Some ideas are so bad, only a highly intelligent person could believe in them.”  It is becoming vastly apparent that the Obama Administration – from the President on down are indeed “highly intelligent” people.  In addition, they seem to be about as tone deaf as a bucket of dirt.  How and why these folks come up with the cockamamie plans and policies they do is indeed a mystery.

Long anticipated, the Department of Justice is suing Arizona over the recent law regarding illegal immigration.  The Administration has turned a deliberate blind eye toward actually securing the border – for blatant political reasons.  In absolute desperation, Arizona makes a law that enables local law enforcement to verify and turn illegals over to the federal agencies.  Instead of taking the positive actions of improving the border situation, Obama condemns the law and initiates legal action against the state.

Between 60 and 70% of Americans support Arizona’s efforts to assist in enforcing federal law.  By blatant groveling for a few percentage points of the Latino vote, the Administration is insulting every American citizen, native born or immigrant.  If this were an isolated incident – a random misreading of the mood of the electorate – it could be forgiven.  Unfortunately and infuriatingly, it is only the latest affront to the will of the majority of Americans.

This morning, another truly odiferous red herring landed in the news.  Obama never liked NASA or the Space Program.  He basically emasculated it by dumping further Moon trip preparation, ignoring Mars planning, and insisting that the Space Shuttle program not be extended.  He wants the money for “free stuff” that buys votes.  Left with a huge organization with little purpose ready to start handing out pink slips, Obama instructs the Director of NASA to initiate a new mission.  Get ready.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his “foremost” mission as the head of America’s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.

Here is a short clip that accurately describes this scheme:

What kind of warped world view would motivate a US President to task the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with wet nursing and burping a sector of the world that quit contributing to scientific advancement a thousand years ago?  “Daft” is about the best explanation.

These two examples are just what happened today! Such foolishness has been emerging from the White House for 17 months – Stimulus, Health Care, Cap & Trade, Close Gitmo, terrorist trials in New York, abject incompetence on the Gulf oil spill, multi trillion dollar deficits, automaker bailouts, foreign policy gaffes – the list goes on. The only way to slow this acid bath of loopy, half baked, dangerous policies and actions is to vote this November.