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On Fox News this morning, State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley became the third Obama administration official in short succession to admit that he hadnt actually bothered to read Arizonas 10-page long secure the border bill before condemning it and criticizing Americans who support Arizonas necessary efforts to do the job the Obama Administration should be doing. Crowleys statement follows similar admissions from Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. At first blush this revelation seemed unbelievable, but maybe I shouldnt be surprised. This now seems the Washington way of doing things. If the party in power tells us they have to pass bills in order to find out whats actually in them, they can also criticize bills (and divide the country with ensuing rhetoric) without actually reading them. Still I cant help but feel outraged on behalf of Arizonas citizens for the incompetence shown by these Administration officials. Arizonans have the courage to do what the Obama administration has failed to do in its first year and a half in office namely secure our border and enforce our federal laws. And as a result, Arizonans have been subjected to a campaign of baseless accusations by the same people who freely admit they havent a clue about what theyre actually campaigning against. The absolute low point of this campaign came last Friday, when a U.S. State Department delegation met with Chinese negotiators to discuss human rights. Apparently, our State Department felt it necessary to make their Chinese guests feel less bad about their own record of human rights abuses by repeatedly atoning for American sins including, it seems, the Arizona immigration/pro-border security law. Asked if Arizona came up at all during the meeting, Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner answered: We brought it up early and often. It was mentioned in the first session, and as a troubling trend in our society and an indication that we have to deal with issues of discrimination or potential discrimination, and that these are issues very much being debated in our own society. Note that he said We brought it up not the Chinese, but the U.S. State Departments own delegation. Instead of grilling the Chinese about their appalling record on human rights, the State Department continued the unbelievable apology tour by raising early and often Arizonas decision to secure our border. Arizonas law, which just mirrors the federal law, simply allows the police to ask those whom they have already stopped for some form of identification like a drivers license. By what absurd stretch of the imagination is that the moral equivalent of Chinas lack of freedoms, population controls (including forced abortions), censorship, and arbitrary detentions? Surely our U.S. Ambassador to China, John Huntsman, must disagree with the Obama Administrations continued apology tour? We have nothing to apologize for. If Administration officials want to apologize to anyone, apologize to the American people for the fact that after a year and a half in office, they still havent done anything to secure our borders, and they join our President in making false suggestions about A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318857 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
