MESSAGE FROM OBAMA:  DON'T YOU DARE SUCCEED - AT 9:46 A.M. ET:   Incredible.  Unbelievable.  But this is the liberal mentality at work:  If you don't at first fail, try, try again. 

To some liberals, success is suspect, unless of course it's their own success at becoming fabulously wealthy through Hollywood accounting or Wall Street gimmicks.  Now we find that the New York Police Department, the symbol of crime-fighting victories in the last decade and a half, and the department that has done more to fight terror than any other police unit, is being denied federal funds.  Why?  Because it's too successful.  In the immortal words of Captain Queeg, "I kid you not."  The Politico has the madness:

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose police force has reportedly been denied due to insufficient crime and budgetary problems, released a blunt statement:

"The decision to deny New York City funding from the COPS grant program is disappointing, to put it mildly. To punish our police department because they have driven down crime with fewer resources shows the backwards incentive system that is sometimes at work in Washington. Denying that funding because New Yorkers have already dug into their pockets to maintain our City’s sound fiscal stewardship and pay for our exceptional policing doesn’t make sense. Lastly, the attacks on New York City were attacks on the nation and we should be receiving strong federal support for the NYPD to fight terrorism in the nation’s largest city."

Well said.  And New York's already legendary police commissioner, Ray Kelly, added his two cents. It would have been four cents, except for budgetary restraints:

"After two successful terrorist attacks at the heart of the nation’s financial center, there should be substantial and continuing federal support for the NYPD in its counterterrorism and conventional crime fighting missions. We shouldn’t be penalized for succeeding on both counts, and mainly on our own dime, over the last seven and a half years."

COMMENT:  Can you believe that?  Do well and get punished.  Now, question:  Do you really want the Obama administration handling 1) health care, 2) education, or 3) relations with our most loyal overseas allies?

Hands please. Up high.  I count...no hands.  Good.  I knew our readers were intelligent.

July 28, 2009