An Arizona utility that provides 25% of Los Angeles electric power has countered the Mayor of L.A. by suggesting he back up that city's boycott of Arizona goods and services by divesting themselves of Arizona power. It is tragic that states have been pitted against each other by this administration while a lame, egotistical, immature ideologue in the People's House threatens to widen the divide with Federal legal action. Where is the uniter we were promised?

Instead of bringing people together for solutions to a real immigration problem, the Obama administration plays and pits Americans and states against each other. What happened to those lofty campaign promises about bringing people together in the interest of the country. Why isn't he working with California and Arizona in their mutual interest instead of fanning the flames that divide them?

How? For starters, why doesn't Obama:

Form joint Federal, State and Local task forces to coordinate resources on tactical and logistical solutions to the problem. Deploy joint manpower resources to problem areas. State and local entities are intimately familiar with border issues and the Feds working with supplemental manpower resources could maximize their collective effectiveness.

Assign Justice Department Lawyers to Arizona to prepare and instruct a mandatory in-service training for law enforcement officers on the Arizona law regarding immigration concentrating on eliminating potential abuses. This could be done with a comparatively modest investment of time and capital.

Organize a special judicial unit to exclusively hear and adjudicate claims of abuse to ensure speedy justice.

Of course if you paid attention o Rahm Emanual's management tenet regarding not letting a good crisis go unexploited ...you can only imagine what this diversion is really all about. Pandering for votes comes to mind. Distracting from the real cost of Obamacare, cap and tax, VAT, and other assaults on American Democracy are conceivable to the open minded.

Taking the initiative, the bull by the horns and making a move in one direction or another requires leadership. Leadership requires one to know their subject...knows full well the pros and cons...does not wallow in the mire of support or criticism.

None of the characteristics Obama possess or demonstrates.

Being the pure bred politician that he is he would not have these qualities.
In fact his propensity to "play it safe" is demonstrated in his constant use of prepared speeches, teleprompters and ignoring the press and press conferences.
His type of persona requires controlled input and outcomes, therefore there can be no actions covert or otherwise that have risk of failure associated with it.

His entire administration is tentative in character...so instead of having staff that compensates for leadership weakness, Obama has a staff that complements his weakness of leadership.

As a result the priorities for the USA and the needs of we the people are not appropriately attended...hence a one term populist.

btk

His job is not to lead, but to destroy.

If the crowd wanted a leader they would not have put him there. The Democrat Party is asleep and Liberals and progressives are continuing to be duped by the this crowd in the cabinet.

Not sure that this DIRECTLY applies but is anyone surprised at the news coming out today that the White House offered a bribe to Joe Sestak to get out of the race ?