Excellent article in the Washington Post by Karen Tumulty on the circular firing squad forming in Democratic ranks over the border crisis. President Obama has come under harsh criticism by some Democrats for not dealing adequately with the crisis, while liberal immigration activists are livid with the president for suggesting that the 57,000 illegal alien children in our custody should be deported. And the president’s own party is deeply divided over what must be done now — particularly on the sensitive question of deporting children who have traveled thousands of miles and turned themselves in to U.S. authorities to escape from the desperate situations they faced in countries such as Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. The emergency has also renewed questions about the administration’s competence, reminiscent of those raised during the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, last year’s botched rollout of the health-care law and more recent revelations of...(Read Full Post)