Fists of Fury or Fits of Fury or Fast and Furious or Obama lied, Mexicans died or something like that

The wingnuttery can be a powerful tool, man. Take Operation Fast and Furious for example, a take off of the Bush era program, wide receiver, where ATF agents used arms sales to straw purchasers illegally buying and funneling firearms to thugs who cannot buy them in the US in order to trace the sales to a larger pattern of arms trafficking in Mexico. These programs would have the effect of increasing the number of guns along the border in order to identify the gang leaders. 

The program (not the Bush part - that was OK, see link below) which sounds like a bad idea at first glance has been incorporated within wingnut mythology to be a deliberate attempt by the Obama Administration to enact domestic gun laws in the US.  This demand for increased gun control would come about in response to escalating violence from illegally armed drug gangs along the border. According Obama's diabolic plan, people would die in large numbers. Then the American public would demand gun restrictions and the next thing you know there will be a UN guard posted in front of your house.

From the Fever Swamps:

It’s really about stealth gun control

Even before Obama was inaugurated, gun control was high on his wish list, including the restoration of the Clinton-era ban on “assault weapons.” So the most plausible explanation for the fine mess the administration currently finds itself in is this:

Wishing to “prove” the lie that 90% of the guns used in Mexican drug violence originate in America (the real figure is closer to 17%), Justice used the failed Operation Wide Receiver as the model for a larger operation deliberately designed to fail.

That way, they could point in feigned horror at the recovered American weapons and crack down on legitimate gun dealers — the very dealers they had forced to sell weapons to the cartels via “straw purchasers” in the first place.

In short, the truth is that Fast and Furious was most likely a murderously cynical assault on the Second Amendment — and one whose multiple ghosts will now haunt the Obama administration’s remaining days.

In other words the wingers say they are outraged that Obama lied, Mexicans died (h/t instapundit).  But there is just one problem with this rhetorical attack on the President: conservatives don't care about Mexicans.  Everybody knows this. 

More problematic is that the House of Representatives is threatening (yet again, sigh) to use Fast and Furious as means to a constitutional show down. Even more problematic is that everyone can tell that this conspiracy theory is batshit crazy, too. 

So what do you do if you are a leading wingnut and see looming disaster of an election year constitutional show down? You try to talk the conspiracy theory down without insulting your fellow teahadists:

The theory cannot be ruled out. However, I don’t find it persuasive[ED Note - nice touch].

First, Fast and Furious does not appear to have been the brainchild of President Obama or Attorney General Holder. Rather, the program reportedly was formulated by the ATF in Phoenix in response to an edict from Washington to focus on eliminating arms trafficking networks, as opposed to capturing low-level buyers, as had occurred under traditional interdiction programs. If Fast and Furious had been the product of a conspiracy by the administration to promote gun control legislation, the program would have come from the top down, not from the bottom up.

Now, it’s possible that a thorough review of documents would show that, contrary to current understanding, the plan originated in the White House or with Eric Holder. But it seems unlikely. For if this had happened, those who have been blamed for the program would likely have said they were following edicts from the highest reaches of the government.

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Second, Obama and Holder probably would not have believed that increased violence in Mexico could lead to tougher regulation of guns in the U.S. Americans simply don’t care enough about Mexico to alter domestic policy based on what occurs there, especially when it comes to an issue as passionately and endlessly argued as gun control. Americans view violence in Mexico the way they viewed violence in Colombia – unfortunate, typical, and not our problem at any fundamental level.

It was always possible that a few Americans, especially some involved in law enforcement, would be killed with guns that were part of Fast and Furious. But in this event, the probable consequence is what we have witnessed – major embarrassment for the administration, not an effective vehicle for advocating more gun control. On balance, it seems unlikely that the administration would come up with a program this risky in the pie-in-the-sky hope of increasing gun control.

That's the thing with systematically deceiving your voters. They sometimes cannot be reeled in before doing real harm, like nominating fellow Teadists for office (See, O'Donnell, Christine, et al.), launching a debt ceiling kamikaze mission or sabotaging the economic recovery.  The misinformed teahadist actually thinks is he doing good works by engaging in the crazy.

On the other hand after the Second Amendment is toast, odds are that Obama will go after the Third Amendment prohibiting the quartering of soldiers in your house - because the UN troops will need somewhere to sleep while they are stationed here.