An Army Of One

Can we be candid here and admit that none of these municipal hobby-horse boycotts against Arizona have been anything but symbolic extremist posturing?  Tone-deaf left-wing bandwagonism as or more economically detrimental to themselves than to the Grand Canyon State?

Why not?  Boston, Massachusetts has:

Red-faced Boston city councilors who boldly [heh] voted to shun the state of Arizona over its new immigration crackdown are now showing signs of boycotter’s regret.

The grandstanding pols kept a low profile when the target of their boycott came to their city on Saturday. Some acknowledged taking a pass on the much-hyped protest of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer for weekend vacations and other engagements – while one councilor even admitted the embargo was ill-conceived. …

“If it had to be done all over again, there’d probably be more thought put into it and perhaps a hearing,” said Councilor John Tobin of West Roxbury. “It was an emotional issue and an emotional time. I think the sponsors were getting a lot of pressure to say something, to file something.”

Well, golly gee whiz, you don't suppose the "sponsors" could have told their "pressurers" to, oh, I dunno, piss off or something, do ya?  Sure, they might have sympathized, but a boycott of a state three thousand miles away didn't mean anything, wasn't going to accomplish anything, and was likely to end up with precisely this sort of embarrassing result.  It proves once again how comprehensively unserious Obamunists at every level of government are about governing, as opposed to "ruling by the finger."

Why'd Boston's Obamnesty warriors take a "low profile" when ReichGoverner Brewer swept triumphantly into Beantown?  An "unexpected" dearth of "troops":

This scurrying is taking place in the wake of the much ballyhooed anti-Arizona protest that fizzled in downtown Boston, when only a few hundred diehard activists with “RACIST” signs showed up, many of them bused in from out of town. Tragic, here in the very Heart of Blueness, that they should have to be outsourcing their moonbattery, to do the protesting that local libs apparently won’t do. No wonder they’re caving so easy. …

Back to Boston, chalk up a victory for Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who rode into the city of her presumptive adversaries and found them wanting.

Ah, but take heart, moonbats; you've still got a few stalwart allies:

JON RALSTON: “So that is a yes, you support the administration’s lawsuit?”

HARRY REID: “I think it is important that we determine what the . . .”

JON RALSTON: “So that is a yes right?”

HARRY REID: “Ya, sure.”

My goodness, if THAT doesn't rev the engines of racial justice, I don't know what will.

But just in case, Eric The Red has a backup plan for when his pre-emption suit that doesn't even mention civil rights after three months of relentless racial demogoguery fails - a civil rights suit:

Despite some officials' claims that the law could lead to racial profiling, that concern was not cited as grounds for the suit.

However, Holder said on CBS' [De[Face the Nation that the federal government was leading with its "strongest" argument in the suit filed Tuesday and would not rule out a second suit months down the road - if the law ends up going into effect.

"It doesn't mean that if the law for whatever reason happened to go into effect, that six months from now, a year from now, we might not look at the impact the law has had ... and see whether or not there has been that racial profiling impact," Holder said. "If that was the case, we would have the tools and we would bring suit on that basis."

This is progress for the rule of law, believe it or not.  Holder's not just "deeming" profiling to be taking place in the future like a really, really awful, Z-movie ripoff of Minority Report.  He's giving the signal for La Raza or some other ac-tor of the leftwingnut racist Reconquista movement to stage an avalanche of profiling incidents and/or file a landslide of frivilous profiling complaints to frame Arizona law enforcement and provide the Department of Injustice & Revenge the tripwire for Round 2.

In truth, I think Round 2 is the main effort.  This pre-emption suit, which even Eric The Red has to know is going to lose, is just a place-holder and PR sop to leftie Hispanics in front of the midterms.  An Obamnesty rain check, as it were.  Probably more to keep them on the hook for 2012 than it is to salvage the unsalvagable in November.

Thing is, "Hope & Change & Patience" just doesn't pack the same oomph as a rallying cry, and might not even fit on bumperstickers.