What's Innit for Us?

Chicago politicians, particularly the Rahmster, should be vibrating with rage.

Anytime Washington passes anything the pols of the Windy City are sure to ask, "What's innit for us?"

But not a single one of President Obama's executive orders on gun control does a damn thing to help control Chicago's murder rate.

To be sure, there's plenty of paper shuffling ahead for the federal bureaucrats and even a bit to pass along to the mental health and medical communities. There are opportunities for industrial filmmakers, too. What do you think, "Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign." actually means? It's gonna be a video and a few posters.

Where's the executive order on creating, at federal expense, a federal/state/city/county gun task force pilot project to combat gun violence in Chicago? An effort that would bring together all levels of law enforcement from BATFE, to Homeland Security, to U.S. Marshals, to city and Cook County officers, to cops from the collar suburbs where straw man gun purchases are often made? A street tough gun squad, call them the New Untouchables if you like, backed by federal prosecutors flexing the muscle of federal laws to lock up the more serious gun offenders and federal judges to make certain they can't I-bond their way to freedom. Where's that Executive Order?

Where's the order that says pull in federal resources from outside the state as needed to provide even heavier manpower for such a task force? Put those new faces undercover in targeted areas to locate the sources of illegal weapons and organize heavy felony gun buys.

The President may talk the talk, and shed a crocodile tear about Newtown, but as far as kids and other innocents getting shot on their porches in Chicago neighborhoods, as far as his street cred on his own block is concerned, he didn't do squat.