Scuttle Diplomacy

President Nixon and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger began the practice coined as shuttle diplomacy. This policy worked well internationally for a domestically besieged President, yielding entrance to China, the end of the Vietnam War, the first SALT treaty and improvement of relations in the middle east. Now we have a president whose best skill seems to be irrationally blaming someone else and then scuttling off to a comfortable resort. His international policies are ridiculed all over the world for their ineffectiveness, his domestic policies have hampered economic growth that is long overdue.
President G. W. Bush was crucified in the media, accused of being indifferent to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, something that was patently dishonest blame mongering for an act of god.  This situation currently in the southern border with Mexico is man-made.  For his refusal to engage on the illegal immigration issue the President gets a pass from the media allowing Democratic operatives to deflect responsibility onto a flawed immigration law of 2008, that at this point is more outdated than wrong. The President gets a pass on the behavior that demonstrates to Americans citizens and potential wetbacks (federal terminology not mine) that deportations will be avoided by refusal to support enforcement. The President and the Senate also get a pass from the media with regards to immigration reform which the failure of which is blamed on the house, ignoring the fact the the legislation proposed by the Senate includes no cooperative creation, the legislation is simply a poison pill created to develop a media wedge issue, never was or is a workable solution.
Six years ago there was decent agreement on the issue. Americans said, get the shit at the border taken care of and then we'll address amnesty, green cards or whatever.  The border is still a god damned mess and the Democrats are back at the door asking for us to ignore promises already made.
Mexico apparently does not enforce its border control on either the top of the bottom of the country, except when Americans are carrying weapons not intended for the drug distribution system. The Federal executive branch makes its intentions obvious by refusing to enforce laws by created by Congress. The Executive, DHS and DOJ give the impression that they welcome all Hispanic immigrants. The Federal leadership is dominated by the Democratically controlled Executive branch and abetted by the Democratic Senate. Those Democrats in power see illegal immigrants as potential voters.  American citizens, Democrat and Republican voters alike, see the Federal government as playing games with the rules that they created to appease the citizens, a large portion of that group now see that manipulation as unlawful refusal to honor oaths of office.
Obama keeps running from the problem, Michael Barone hits it on the nose.
Obama Skitters, Scampers and Scuttles Away From Failure