UPDATE: Why the BLM is Standing Down in Cliven Bundy Dispute
Why? There’s a good possibility that the directive to stand down came from the White House. The Democrats are in a political tail spin. Political aspirations look bad for November. They don’t need daily reports on how the Feds are armed to the teeth persecuting a lone rancher and his cattle. Waco and Ruby Ridge come to mind. The Democrats are trying to clear the deck of potential bad news stories. Getting rid of Kathleen Sebelius is part of the process.
Reports that Harry Reid and his family have a vested interest in this government land doesn’t help the government’s case against Cliven Bundy, especially with the bad publicity that he’s gotten lately over payouts to his family.
http://godfatherpolitics.com/15158/federal-government-must-win-cliven-bundy-land-dispute/
Especially the weekend before our annual Tax Day reaming (in an election year, no less). People are PO’d at the general state of things and oversized, arrogant bureaucracies and their minions out harassing ranchers is really bad optics that are tailor made for social networking sites.
I’m sure there were DC officials screaming into their phones at the local administrators. “WTF are you doing out there?”
The whole operation was poorly planned from the get go and rapidly turned into an expensive, embarrassing fiasco.