During his campaign Obama promised to put a stop to the DEA's persecution of medical marijuana patients and their caregivers & clinics in states where it is legal.

This year's first DEA raid on a clinic legally dispensing marijuana took place less than two days after his inauguration. Since then there have been three more. The Obama administration blames these attacks on Bush partisans within the DEA trying to embarrass the new president and assures us that they are in the process of replacing them.

This is nonsense, and even the most rabid of Obama's disciples should refuse to be taken in by it. Assume that the President was serious about keeping his promise to stop the DEA from staging raids on legitimate medical facilities for the purpose of making sick and dying people suffer by denying them their medicine. Then instead of pretending that he has no control over an executive branch agency, he should take five minutes out of his busy schedule to issue an executive order forbidding federal employees from interfering with the medical use of marijuana in states where it is legal. Problem solved.

Then he can get back to the important business of replacing the Bush appointees in patronage jobs with his own people; or whatever.

So why don't all the compassionate Obama supporters out there join us heartless libertarians in trying to hold the President to his promise to reign in a rogue government agency that is conducting terrorist attacks on sick and dying American citizens?