There are a lot of attempts to explain the motivations of the Obama administration. Large scale power grabs like the health care bill provide blunt examples of government overreach and Obama’s statist roots. The problem with these are that the battle is staged over such a wide period of time and over such a large battleground that it becomes hard to grab onto anything more substantive than campaign rhetoric. Only during the perpetual campaign could an entire party dismiss the fact that they haven’t read the legislation they’re voting on, much less have the Speaker of the House tout this ignorance as an achievement.

That is why the micro flare-ups that the Obama administration is so prone to suffering provide a better and more consistent opportunity to expose their motivations. Take, for example, the head of NASA’s statement that Barack Obama tasked him with outreach to the Muslim world as perhaps his number one priority. If this were any other administration, the notion would be met with silence and shock, but with Obama’s White House it kind of fits. No, not in the silly Manchurian Muslim Candidate way but as another piece in the Obama reality puzzle.

This story is a perfect example of what Obama is doing across the country. He is a child who received everything that he could have asked for (and more) on Christmas but discards it all to play with the box. He glides into office on gilded wings, surveys the prize he’s won- America- and then proceeds to throw away the core. America’s gift and promise left in the garbage bag along with Styrofoam packaging. Then out come the crayons and all of a sudden America’s shell is now sporting all sorts of new labels and the inside is warped to whatever Obama desires.

The fact that NASA’s mission is space exploration and atmospheric research is so obvious to anyone, no matter the party affiliation, and yet has been turned on its head in less than a year and a half shouldn’t be lost on anyone. I wouldn’t believe the White House push back for a minute, this story fits too well with what we already know of them. Not to mention that the NASA head is still hanging on to the bottom of the bus. Remember using CIA spy satellites to track global warming? That Obama popped out the inner workings, installed someone and told them that a self-esteem boost for another country is our number one goal should tell us something about what he’s willing to do with more crucial sectors of the government.

That it doesn’t foreshadow anything for so many on the left and in the middle reflects how Obama has been the packaging himself for others. They dumped out his statist core in the campaign, grabbed the crayons and started drawing on his box. Ta da! Now you’ve got your Malibu dream President and he just isn’t cutting it, is he?

Harry Reid has inadvertently explained the mystery of the Democrat’s stance on illegal immigration. In response to a reporter’s question about the difficulties for Americans to find work because of the lower costs associated with using “undocumented workers”, Reid quipped:

“I think that any information you have in that regard is absolutely without foundation,” responded Reid. “That may be someplace, but it is not here in Nevada.”

So there you have it folks. It isn’t that Democrats are really soft on the border or anticipating the voter windfall they would have by imposing amnesty on the twelve to twenty million illegal immigrants in the United States, it’s just that they don’t really believe the issue exists. They’re just so focused on creating jobs at $250,000 a pop that they can’t see anything else. If you’re having a hard time wrapping your brain around  it, try comparing it to the Invisible Gorilla test that’s been revived in the news recently.

Hey, I’m just trying to not be cynical here. Surely Harry Reid wouldn’t lie to his constituents. Surely he wouldn’t think that the good people of Nevada have been lulled into such a stupor by his many years in office that they wouldn’t notice that there, uh, are illegal immigrants in Nevada. No, it must be the blinders. He’s a very focused guy.

Elsewhere in the real world, Michelle Malkin provides some ICE documentation to dispel any other Democrats from playing this game. Granted it’s like playing a shell game with the bottoms of the cups cut out, but you never know when “did we throw the neighbor’s kitchen sink at them yet?” remains the 2010 Democrat election motto.

There comes a time when you say something is a lost cause. That could be said of a lazy blog author who hasn’t put forth the effort to regularly update in a year, I wouldn’t think of hiding behind the old standard ‘hasn’t had time’ as one can always make time, or it could be said of a minority in Congress railing against the expansion of government into every sector of private business. Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on your point of view, neither seems ready to throw in the towel.

Hey kids, how many times can your uncle Neocon say he’s going to blog before you stop looking under the tree? Thanks for the faith. I’ll earn it back.

Here’s to another year of Obama-fueled fun in 2010. Pull the country over, I want to get off…

I kid, I kid.

I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has inquired about the website lately. It’s really a testament to the power that a single person with no formal political or journalistic background can have (save the jokes) when you get e-mails wondering about new content from people across the globe. The internet really had broken down most of the communication barriers of the twentieth century. Citizen journalism and all that.

With a full time career, this website is something that is hard to start back up once it gets stagnant. I’ll find myself ranting in traffic, thinking what a good post it would make, but after a full day of work the sense of urgency is all too often drained away. I’ll definitely make an extra effort to get back into the swing of things because I certainly enjoy it. Knowing that you do as well, be it because you find Neocon News to be a haven for the wacky right-wing conspiracy or a beacon of reason in the blogosphere, makes it all the more enticing. Thanks for not letting this place drop off the face of this earth.

All the more respect to those of you who never slack off despite your real life commitments! I’m still reading all of you as well, even if I don’t comment.

What better way to herald my completely unnoticed glorious return to blogging than by reporting on a story so close to the beginnings of Neocon News. The good news is that someone else has finally recognized the glory that is John Bolton’s mustache of truth. The bad news is that it’s under assault by Hezbollah terrorists!

This looks like a job for…

Keep watching for further developments. I anticipate some sort of mysterious accident in store for those enemies of the ‘stache, which police will possibly attribute to a walrus given the way the wounds resemble a set of mighty whiskers. Truly no man nor boating accident could cause that sort of damage… or could they?

Here’s what I’m talking about.

Waxman is also interested, say sources, in looking at how the Internet is being used for content and free speech purposes. “It’s all about diversity in media,” says a House Energy staffer, familiar with the meetings. “Does one radio station or one station group control four of the five most powerful outlets in one community? Do four stations in one region carry Rush Limbaugh, and nothing else during the same time slot? Does one heavily trafficked Internet site present one side of an issue and not link to sites that present alternative views? These are some of the questions the chairman is thinking about right now, and we are going to have an FCC that will finally have the people in place to answer them.”

Just think if one of us evil Republicans gets back into office, we’ll force you to carry ad banners for the George W. Bush library on your liberal myspace page.

I sure hope that the next time Barack Obama gives a press conference, he trots up RNC head Michael Steele to offer alternative views after he answers a question.

“The FCC and state and local governments also have oversight over the Internet lines and the cable and telecom companies that operate them. We want to get alternative views on radio and TV, but we also want to makes sure those alternative views are read, heard and seen online, which is becoming increasingly video and audio driven. Thanks to the stimulus package, we’ve established that broadband networks — the Internet — are critical, national infrastructure. We think that gives us an opening to look at what runs over that critical infrastructure.”

Thanks stimulus! Good job focusing on that economy.

Like I said earlier, it just keeps building.

Hot Air gives it a post. Check out the comments– they’re gold.