Unreconstructed Internationalism

With President Barack Obama's administration deep in scandal, his loyal constable, Rep. Adam Smith, is sweating profusely under the pressure of Mark Greene's campaign for U.S. Representative in Washington's newly configured 9th District.  Smith is desperately hoping that the corporate news media can keep the lid on the other steaming scandal pot, heretofore ignored, the stolen election of the 9th Congressional District Primary of 2004, in which Smith, the neoconservative Democrat, unwittingly benefitted from by virtue of an "opposing" campaign of the same ideological tenor as his own globalist adventurist make-up, namely Paul Lord's, the declared "winner" of the Republican Primary that year.  Like a chameleon, Smith, who learned from his mentor, Obama, quite well, appears on neoliberal news programs from time to time to give his impersonation of a progressive, while behind the scenes, acts and votes pretty much like Tea Party lite, with the exception of his interventionist, global policing mentality and votes, in which the Tea Party, at least, seems divided over.  Smith is to the right of almost all of the Congressional delegation from Washington, including some Republicans, and he makes his fellow neoconservatives in Congress look like liberals, though, of course, they're true blue servants of the corporate behemoth and Obama's internationalist constabulary.

[Originally published on Commoner on 5/16/2013 as "Obama's Constabulary: Rep. Adam Smith & Co.;" revised on 5/23/13 and 2/19/15.]