Mac-Coleman

6 December 2011 –

Martha Stewart should have been on retainer by the Department of Justice bigwigs who are squirming around, trying to delay the inevitable admission to Congress that they lied about their involvement in the silly and dangerous Fast and Furious program. Remember Martha Stewart who went to jail for five months for lying to investigators about insider trading, something for which she probably only have paid a fine, if the government had decided to prosecute, which it probably wouldn’t have. The lesson? The cover-up is always worse than the crime.

Let me get this straight. The Bush administration’s ATF and DOJ tried to implement a stupid program to funnel and follow guns from the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels and then capture and convict those bad guys using them. It was so stupid a program that normal bureaucrats cancelled before it could take full form. How stupid? In the words of a typical teenager: “Like, dumb!” Then, with a change of administrations, stupidity again metastasized through the current collective crania in ATF and DOJ. I must ask: Are they smoking what they are trying to stop at the border or what? Anyway, FAST AND FURIOUS was the exciting name they rechristened a dull yet quite dangerous idea. This time, not to their credit, our ATF and DOJ succeeded in pushing thousands of guns into the hands of, what a surprise, devious and dangerous criminals. These criminals easily hid these weapons and then used them to kill their bad guy enemies. I would not lose sleep over dead drug dealers on the streets of Mexico, I suppose. But, the criminals used U.S. government-supplied weapons to kill good guys as well.

Uh, oh! Now what? Well, stupid is what stupid does, as Forrest Gump said. Rather than come clean, take the medicine for third degree stupidity, and resign, ATF and DOJ officials all the way up to the Attorney General seem to have self-infected with first-degree stupidity. It looks like they still will have to resign but face possible criminal charges as well. My big disappointment in growing up was when I realized that adults often don’t act like adults. The Attorney General and his deputies, all educated men with grey streaks at their temples, look increasingly like silly junior high kids smoking in the boys’ room and then lying about it as the school burns. Let us applaud when Congress treats them like the fools they are. Anybody want to be the next Attorney General? Adults only need apply.