Marijuana is too easy a control mechanism and money maker for the PIC.

Remember this is the same idiot functionary who thinks on Tuesdays Barry playing with his “Murder Flash Cards” is the equivalent of Due Process.

My two cents: For example, that was something that bothered me about the discussion surrounding the nomination of Justice Kagan. She made some principled remarks as Dean of Harvard Law School, then did a complete 180 when told to do so by the higher ups. She does bear some level of responsibility for her role in that (for example, she could have forced Summers to fire her), yet a lot of DC punditry seemed quite content to just dismiss those kinds of concerns out of hand.

But I think it’s important to keep the focus on those higher ups. People like Eric Holder and Tim Geithner are doing a good job; in fact, they are performing at a rather exemplary level at what they have been tasked to do. Changing them doesn’t change the problem, because the problem is the marching orders from the higher ups. Geithner will be stepping away from Treasury. To be replaced by a guy whose private sector experience is gambling at Citi and who has no intention of addressing the fraud and corruption destroying our financial system.

This is very similar to the platinum coin solution. That monetary options solves the problem of Republican legislators out to destroy the country by denying both taxation and debt issuance. But that’s not the problem – the actual problem is that the President agrees with them that the debt/deficit is a near term issue. Or if that’s a bad example, take universal healthcare. Hacker’s public option was a great academic compromise balancing a variety of interests. But that wasn’t the problem; the problem was that Democratic leaders weren’t interested in a health care bill that represented the will of the people.

Obama and Biden have highlighted their drug warrior cred from the beginning.

Abso-effen-lutely. If anyone’s “surpised,” then they haven’t been paying attention.

We palavered yesterday that likely suspects for who’s pulling JoeBama’s marionette strings on this issue are: a) BigTobacco, b) BigPharma, and/or c) BigSpyIndustry. All who stand to lose (or preceive they do) if pot is legalized.

MONEY talks… everyone else can do the perp walk.

Caveat Emptor.

I’ve been looking for years for the people’s representatives. No luck so far.

Utterly unsurprised. Same old, different day.

Nothing to see here, kiddies, move along now…

The fact that Holder is the bag man and not the capo still leaves Holder responsible.