Fast and Furious

This played out pretty much as I thought it would. It was a minor, politically-motivated scandal. Undercover police routinely distribute guns, narcotics and other contraband, usually through proxies. Sometimes things go wrong. Fast and Furious is one of those times.

I knew it would be the cover-up that would do Holder in. Had he done a few mea culpas like Janet Reno post-Waco, the scandal would have blown over long ago. But Holder, like his boss, is an extremely proud man. It's never his fault and he is not going to say sorry. He would stonewall and filibuster and drag his feet. But mostly, Holder would reveal his contempt--in every sense of the word--for Congress. Who do these plebes think they are?

Over the years I have heard a lot of commentary about the nature organizational personalities. People tend to surround themselves with people whose personalities resemble their own. A collective personality emerges. If you talk to the receptionist or the shipping guy or the purchasing agent at Sunshine, Inc., you get a cheerful disposition. Whereas the personnel at Surley, Surley and Surley present themselves in a different, albeit consistent, manner.

The Obama Administration is not an exception to this rule. The overgrown adolescent has surrounded himself with other overgrown adolescents. Holder, like Obama, is sullen and petty and mean. The two men are blessed with abundant self esteem. Their wondrous acts cannot be appreciated by an ungrateful and disrespectful Congressional body. Ah, the burden of talent!

Fast and Furious was a simple story of a diva scorned. But then the uber-diva asserted Executive Privelege into the plotline. Huh? A classic surprise-but-not-really-surprising turn of events. What happens now?

Obama is the most Nixonian president we have seen in thirty-eight years. Holder is the second coming of John Mitchell. The RN Gang were done in by their own excessive hubris. I suspect the Chicago Mob will render themselves a similar fate.