Navarrette: Guns and political reality  Consistent with its
creed that words speak louder than actions, the Obama
administration likes to send officials down to Mexico so they
can pose for photo ops and talk about how the United States is a
full partner in the drug war.  Yeah, some partner. The White
House should have listened to Johnny Cash, who crooned:  “When I
was just a baby my mama told me, ‘Son, always be a good boy,
don’t ever play with guns.’”  It turns out that someone in the
White House has been playing with guns — or rather, playing
politics with guns.  According to the Washington Post, White
House officials last summer scuttled a proposal that would have
required gun-shop owners on the U.S. side of the border to
report bulk sales of high-powered semiautomatic rifles — the
preferred weapons of drug dealers.  These officials did so
despite the fact that, weeks earlier, President Obama had
personally assured Mexican President Felipe Calderon that he
would crack down on gun smuggling from the United