Fast 'n Furious – Obama's Waterloo?

OUR STORY SO FAR

Mexican drug gangs have become so powerful, that they control many Mexican states along the border with the US, where the drug routes run, out-muscling Mexican police and military. Even cruise ships have stopped visiting some ports 'o call along the Mexican Riviera that the gangs control. So, the Obama administration got the bright idea of allowing guns to illegally run south across the border, with the intent of tracking and identifying the drug gangs, calling the initiative 'Fast and Furious' (FAF).

So far, from my seat in the peanut gallery, I am with them.

Then, the doggie-doo hit the fan: they lost track of the guns. Not only was a US border agent killed by a gun traceable to FAF, but Mexican authorities have stated that dozens or perhaps hundreds of Mexicans have been killed by guns that can be so traced.

Oops...

WATERGATE

I need to explain this to you young 'uns who have never heard of CREEP (Committee to Re-Elect the President), or AG John Mitchell. In 1972, some low level political operatives working for the Nixon campaign broke into a Democratic campaign office and stole a few documents. They were caught, but this was a simple misdemeanor about as serious as jay-walking.

All Nixon had to do was plead mea culpa, and the matter would have simply disappeared forever. Dick Morris, in his book “2010: Take Back America: A Battle Plan”, calls this an up-and-over, the proper method of dealing with such political crises.

But that is not what Nixon and friends did: instead, they tried to cover up the affair, unsuccessfully. In the end, the cover-up involved Presidential counsels, staffers, and cabinet secretaries. In the shadows of a certain Impeachment conviction vote in the Senate, Nixon resigned in disgrace in 1974.

OBAMA'S WATERGATE?

OK, so far, which road map is Obama following:

• the Dick Morris plan, or
• the Richard Milhous Nixon plan?

(hint: both Nixon and Obama have invoked 'executive privilege', refusing to turn over key documents to Congress).

ABOUT THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO

Occurred in 1815, where the Emperor Napoleon was finally defeated by Coalition forces led by Blucher and Wellington, paving the way for Louis XVIII to be restored to the French throne. I acknowledge that some of you military buffs argue that Napoleon really lost his military campaign a couple of days earlier at Quatre Bras, where he had the chance, but failed, to defeat Coalition forces piecemeal.