"At the meeting I was attempting to explain that unlike Sen. Schumer, I believe in traditional values, like we used to see on The Andy Griffith Show. I made the mistake of referring to Sen. Schumer as 'that Jew' and I should not have put it that way as this took away from what I was trying to say."
- State Sen. Kim Hendren (AR-9) | May 14, 2009

And no, I'm not off-topic.

As long as unrepentant baboozes** like this clown -- who, incidentally, is running for the U.s. Senate in Arkansas -- keep either getting elected to public office or appointed to positions of public authority, it's purely wishful thinking on our part to believe that we can somehow change current drug enforcement policy for the better in this country.

That doesn't mean we stop trying, but let's do it with our eyes wide open.

** Babooze (bah-būz') n. - Hawaiian slang term of Portuguese origin, used in reference to a perpetually clueless individual who most always has trouble finding his own rear end in broad daylight with both hands, a mirror and illustrated directions.

He funds organizations and groups, but leaves it to the people to work on their own ideas.

I am speaking about his funding for Move On and Center for American Progress and their not being involved in drug policy issues in a big way.

In contrast, the Right Wing think tanks that are funded by conservatives work on ideas that the funders "order."

In the drug policy reform movement we are mostly a grassroots movement that seems to be in search of message discipline and national groups that have not yet connected activists all together.

Perhaps we are developing the maturity as a movement to be effective.

So the question becomes: is the Obama administration really committed to a fundamental shift in America's approach to drug policy