Peking Lame Duck

Politico reports on Obama's crafty next move - flee!

Lame duck swims to Asia

Let's hope he has enough energy left to pivot after the swim.

If President Barack Obama expects to escape the spate of brutal post-election news by traveling 6,000 miles and 12 time zones to Asia, he’s in for a surprise.

Regional players are taking stock of whether the U.S. president once seen as a global rock star will now have diminished heft on the world stage, and some are delivering their verdict well ahead of his arrival Monday for an eight-day trip to China, Burma and Australia.

Global Times, an English-language newspaper published by China’s state-run People’s Daily, has carried two withering editorials in recent days.

“The lame-duck president will be further crippled” in the wake of a GOP victory, the newspaper warned in one before the voting was complete. “He has done an insipid job, offering nearly nothing to his supporters. US society has grown tired of his banality.”

Whoa. If the ranks of the right-wing bloggers ever thin in this country we have a deep bench in Beijing.

Comments

[peter]

I always like to be First on Fridays

[Mad Jack]

Insipid and banal. Right up there with "more mush from the wimp". That seals it, Chinese food for lunch!

[Dublindave]

5

[Dublindave]

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[Dublindave]

8

[Dublindave]

%

[anonamom]

Sushi here.

[Dublindave]

214,000 jobs created.

[Dublindave]

Gas below $3.

[narciso]

meanwhile back on the Malabar front:

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/11/three_new_jihadist_t.php

[anonamom]

Since I couldn't watch MSNBC on election night or hte next day, I am indulging myself and listening to Diane Rehm's Week In Review.

And yes, I just heard the obligatory "racist" comment by a listener who called in...

[Iggy]

Into the valley of death rode the Wee drunk mik....

[Jane]

Re Coakley: "How many lives were ruined because of her? All the schadenfreude in the world isn't worth that price."

I know of 3 James, how many do you know of?

[Jane]

Maybe foreign leaders should say they don't have the time right now to meet with Obola.

[narciso]

And our own featherpasser, part of Team Volodya now, shows how the czar in all but crown, is rubbishing us,

[Dublindave]

Dow and S&P hit record highs.......and on and on and on..

[Dublindave]

You're welcome.

[Dublindave]

No seriously,you're welcome.

[Marlene]

Jane,have a wonderful cruise!

[Janet]

the U.S. president once seen as a global rock star

Who saw Barack Hussein Obama as a "global rock star"? Josh Gerstein? Politico?

Wasn't that just a created myth by the MFM/Dem machine?
I believe many Politico JournoListers helped with THAT marketing campaign.

[Soylent Red]

5.8%
214,000 jobs created.
Gas below $3.

Hmm. Interesting.

Insipid.
Banal.
Scoreboard.

[NKontheNovreboot]

The ChiComs are Tea Partiers? Who knew.

Lets see; The World Today: Putin is about to Crimeaize East Ukraine while Limp D#@& Obummer stands by chooming away; ISIS continues to arm and recruit and ready for its final push to grab the Iraq and its Military gear; and on Nov 24th I expect the Mullahs to announce they have an operational BOMB and delivery system-- all systems go for the return of the 12th Imam. 500(?) now being monitored for Ebola in the USA and the Media have put a hold on announcing actual cases. Yep we are in Obummer's Handbasket at the doors of hell. Good news? Yes -- thank God for horizontal drillers and frackers who are helping drive down oil/gas prices worldwide-- DESPITE Obummer.

[Eric in Boise]

Dow and S&P hit record highs.......and on and on and on.

I'm sure all this will be taken into account in the upcoming elections.

The ChiComs dissing of 404 would be Schadenlicious, if it didn't have such ominous implications. See also Putin, V.

[Iggy]

Speaking of Coakley, my sincerest apologies for bringing up the horrifying Dunham clan again but I hadn't seen the below quoted tweets from Lena's younger sister.

As a queer person: i'm committed to people narrating their own experiences, determining for themselves what has and has not been harmful /

heteronormativity deems certain behaviours harmful, and others "normal"; the state and media are always invested in maintaining that /

2day, like every other day, is a good day to think about how we police the sexualities of young women, queer, and trans people

They are so comically PC and stultifyingly insipid I'm nominating them for inclusion on the Social Justice Kitten's calendar-2016.

[Dublindave]

"I'm sure all this will be taken into account in the upcoming elections"

We're banking on it.

[The kennel can be capacious.]

Burma oughta quarantine him for 3 weeks.

[Eric in Boise]

"Heteronormative" is a trigger warning for me in the same manner as "neocon". As soon as I see either of these words in print anywhere, I immediately stop reading.

[James D.]

Jane, I have no idea.

Honestly, 3 people is enough. But it's not just those 3 people. It's their families, too, and - to the extent they were touched by the fallout - friends and co-workers, too.

But I'd guess, given her track record, that for those 3 people we do know about, there are probably hundreds whose names we will never know who found themselves targets of her despite their innocence.

[Porchlight]

Jane, AliceH (?), and all the JOMers on the cruise, I hope you have a wonderful time. I know everyone will be in great moods. :)

[James D.]

Eric @ 11:05

I agree completely! "Cisgendered' or any variation on that is another one. Once you see that word, there's nothing further to be gained by reading or listening.

[NKontheNovreboot]

The Chicoms will humiliate Obummer like we have yet to see before. They'll probably announce some new military gear and ORDER the US Navy out of the China Sea and East Pacific Co-Prosperity Sphere (what's 75 years old is new again) then they will recognize Putin's Rump East Ukraine-Russia. EIN VOLK -- in Russian this time -- and they'll ORDER the House of Saud to sell Crude in Yuan denominated currency. Oh yes, all these things are coming soon. Putin/Chicoms/Mullahs have just 26 months to slap this pussie around-- they'll go for it.

[Porchlight]

"Heteronormative" is a trigger warning for me in the same manner as "neocon". As soon as I see either of these words in print anywhere, I immediately stop reading.

Count me in. Also "cis" and "social justice." The latter makes me want to hoist the flag a la Mencken.

[But dog wasn't on the menu.]

He was headed for Indonesia.

[GMax]

54 Senators
250 House members
31 Governors
70% of State Houses

I like my list a whole lot better. You on the other hand get another term of Drunken Dan Malloy, so there is that.

[NKontheNovreboot]

Woops-- that should be the WestPac Co-Propertity Sphere.... on the other hand.

[danoso]

Kick enough folks off the rolls, we'll be down to 0.0%

[Iggy]

--We're banking on it.--

So are the TBTF Wall Street bankers on your payroll.
We, the 0% depositors might still have a bit of a bone to pick in 2016 though.

If we could just clone WeeDavey so everyone could hear the unfiltered voice of Dems, Martha Coakley would look like an electoral titan compared to where the Dem party would be in the polls.

[Dublindave]

So,the Congressional budget office just stated that the first three economic proposals laid out by Republicans through the WSJ op-ed would increase the national deficit by....wait for it......287 billion dollars.

Sigh.Republican economic ideas are back ladies and gentlemen,they're back.

Relax, Obama's got a veto pen which makes him the most powerful man in Washington. And statistically,rich people do much better under Democratic administrations than Republican ones, so all you one per centers can breath a sigh of relief.

How's everyone's financial portfolio after the last 8 years of Republican economic ideas? Yeah,I thought so. That bad,huh?

What about now after 6 years under Obama?

You're welcome. l

[windansea]

We're banking on it.

You better be considering how much you spent on the midterms and received a gigantic slattering in return. Two teachers unions spent about 80 million
trying to get rid of Walker alone.

[The incorrigible and the hostile.]

Peculiar choices. Why Burma and why Australia?

[Tonto]

@Jim Miller, and reposted from last thread:

One of the people who came in after August for the Celis campaign is the kid (and I think a 24-year-old is a kid!) who was one of the original Dave Bratt masterminds. Two kids 24 or under behind the Cantor ouster!

He had the optimism of youth, but the feeling going in was it was going to be nearly impossible. En route to meet the candidate for the first time, and seeing all the "Vote For Pedro" signs, he had to explain the reference to his even younger co-worker.

[Iggy]

I'll pre-empt TM by linking Krugman's response to Tuesday.
Only got through a couple of paragraphs myself.
He seemed bloodied but unbowed still a petulant, dumbass tool.

[Soylent Red]

Social Justice is one of the biggies that make me reach for my pistol.

Also..

"raise awareness"
"make a difference"
"speaking truth to power"
"open-minded"
"mean spirited"
"activist"
"urban"

[Old Lurker]

"disenfranchised"

[NKontheNovreboot]

DD-- you have no portfolio-- you don't even own underpants without holes in them. Let those of us who have a bit of hard earned money saved and invested worry about that. And as the Repubs now cater to small business owners and productive workers, I am highly confident that their Budgets will spend a shitload less on those like you in the Free Shite Army, and there will be far less debt created. They will also make it easier to produce/refine/distribute USA energy and they'll bitchslap the Fed a bit to never do the QE nonsense again, that will keep the currency strong. I'm good with all of that.

[Oh how it smarts when the whip stings.]

'Smart' is my favorite.

[MarkO]

If it limps like a duck . . .

[NKontheNovreboot]

"people of color"
"aboriginal peoples"
"privileged white people"

[Dublindave]

"DD-- you have no portfolio-- you don't even own underpants without holes in them"

Lol. It's funny cause it's true.

[Eric in Boise]

Also "invest in the future", which is an euphemism for "piss money away" about 99.44% of the time.

[Jane]

Thanks guys - don't forget Caro-

My plane leaves at 3:40 today. Keep your fingers crossed that I get out. The Worcester Airport is known for cancellations.

I hear a polar vortex is coming. If I gloat about that, I am positive my plane will be cancelled.

An NRO cruise is the best place to be after a loss - so you can commiserate. This is the biggest WIN post election cruise I've ever been on.

[Iggy]

--And statistically,rich people do much better under Democratic administrations than Republican ones, so all you one per centers can breath a sigh of relief.--

Yes we know; just as they did under the real Il Duce and are currently doing under Mr Putin.
Tuesday was a reaction by the rest of us seeing our real pay and wealth shrinking under Il Douche;

[NKontheNovreboot]

Godspeed and bon voyage Jane!

[GMax]

How about "Get Things Done."

Barf

[centralcal]

Bon Voyage Jane, Caro and AliceH! Have fun, but report back often. Careful of pictures Caro takes, sometimes those are wicked(ly funny).

[maryd]

"folks" works for me.

[Old Lurker]

"Reach across the aisle"

[Old Lurker]

"Fair share"

[RickB]

"Why Burma and why Australia?"

No golf course in Antarctica or on the moon? The Chicom embarrassment at having a Marxist of such manifest incompetence trying to put as much distance between himself and his abject failure by visiting what passes for communist success is understandable. The harshness of their assessment may well be driven by fear of the Merde Touch.

Who could blame them?

[Old Lurker]

Burma? Looking for a site for the Obama Library?

[Iggy]

If you guys read more gun and car magazines you'd run into a lot less of those words. :)

[NKontheNovreboot]

Iggy-- I break up the 1%s into 3 classes; the crony elite, the 'above it all' rich libs, and patriots. The rich patriots want other Americans to benefit from the bigger economic pie they help create. They don't fear new competition, they engage it with the confidence in their own abilities, and yeah a bigger economic pie benefits them as well. There are patriots at JOM. There are evil cronies and above it all Libs in the Legacy Media. Explains a lot.

[Iggy]

--Lame duck swims to Asia--

That's gotta sting.

[danoso]

During the failed coup of 1991, the old Soviets couldn't understand why the proles weren't bestowing their undying gratitude when the store shelves suddenly started filling. Funny how that works.

[Frau Lehrerin a.D.]

Obama called the newly designated San Gabriel Mountains National Monument a gain for "social justice." WTH?

[narciso]

of course, what are the Top Men thinking:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/06/Midterm-Exit-Polls-75-Reject-Exec-Amnesty-80-Don-t-Want-Foreign-Workers-Taking-Jobs-from-Americans

State Run Media, is fulfilling that line from that English play, about 'sound and fury'

[jimmyk]

Dow and S&P hit record highs.......and on and on and on.

Imagine how bad the election would have been for the Dems without all the propping up by Yellen & Co. I seem to recall the market peaking in year 7 of W's administration. How'd that work out?

[Iggy]

Today's pop quiz;
Please label cronies with a "C" and "above it all" rich libs with an "L".

[caro]

Thanks, cc, i am really, really looking forward to this one. My flight is at 7am tomorrow.

Can't wait to see Jane and meet Alice. Also some new "speakers" like Prof Jacobson of Legal Insurrection and cartoonist Ramirez.

We promise to report more often.

[maryrose]

Jane: Have a great trip! Give my regards to AliceH and Caro. Send pictures.
5.8 % unemployment. Too bad it didn't reveal itself BEFORE the midterms.
Nov.15th- new insurance rates revealed.
O-care -buh bye!

[centralcal]

Ramirez?!!! How cool is that! Make a good or bad impression - just make an impression - maybe he'll do a cartoon of you three girl gang members!

[Extraneus]

"infrastructure"

[jimmyk]

Loretta Lynch to be nominated as Holder's replacement, apparently. From what I know, that's a fairly safe choice.

[Eric in Boise]

Obama called the newly designated San Gabriel Mountains National Monument a gain for "social justice."

Ponderosa Pines we much!!

[Jim Miller]

tonto - Thanks for the info on the Celis/DelBene race.

(I could tell that something had happened in the last few weeks, but had no idea what it was.)

[Porchlight]

Imagine Tuesday's results if Obama hadn't delayed the employer mandate and if the insurance rate hike notices had gone out on time.

All that is yet to come, of course.

[Buckeye]

Glad that Boehner called Zero out on the executive action he plans on "immigration reform".

Real question is whether when push comes to shove will Boehner follow through or start crying like a little girl.

[With wot he's shot.]

Heh, limp duck.

[James D.]

If you guys read more gun and car magazines you'd run into a lot less of those words. :)

Give it time. I bet the car magazines will be next. That's what all that "gamergate' nonsense is all about - progs pushing into cultural areas they don't yet dominate and trying to take over.

[Beasts of England]

Bon voyage, Jane!

[Danube on iPad]

Candidate Walker should declare that on his first day in office he will rescind executive amnesty. See what Hillary says.

[Jim Miller]

Tonto - One thing you know, but others here might not: TV ads here are miserably expensive for House seats.

To reach the 1st district (mine), you have to advertise on Seattle TV stations -- which means that you also have to pay for your ads going to all or part of the 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th districts.

And you would probably want to spend a little up in Bellingham, to reach the north end of the district.

[Old Lurker]

Adding to my list of first day actions:

1. Appoint the committee chairs.

2. Fire every current committee staffer.

3. Limit new staffs to 50% of old number.

4. Chair then hires his own 60% (used to be 67%).

[Extraneus]

Progs just being themselves.

Climate change conference in Venezuela marred by concerns of anti-capitalist grandstanding

CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela is hosting a meeting that's meant to be a unique chance for environmental activists from around the world to talk with senior government negotiators ahead of the next round of global climate talks.

But the United Nations-sanctioned conference has been marred by logistical mishaps. And some groups say they're concerned the host government is using the meeting as a platform for anti-capitalist decrees.

A last-minute change in venue from the capital Caracas to Margarita Island in the Caribbean forced participants to scramble for hard-to-find flights. That led several would-be participants to drop out, including White House climate envoy Todd Stern.

A Venezuelan environmental coalition known as Red ARA said it wasn't invited after it complained the government was imposing an ideological bias on the meetings.

[Eric in Boise]

Give it time. I bet the car magazines will be next.

Oh, the insensitivity of those damn small-block Chevys.

[Some Guy]

Candidate Walker should declare that on his first day in office he will rescind executive amnesty.

I'd go one better. I'd rescind *every* executive order, and only update/reissue ones that are absolutely necessary.

[Extraneus]

Border figures posted, removed month before election

Staggering statistics that show nearly a half-million people were caught trying to enter the U.S. illegally -- and more than half were not Mexican, a number far higher than in 2013 -- reportedly were posted on a U.S. government website for just a few hours last month before being taken down.

According to the Center for Investigative Reporting, the numbers were posted on the U.S. Customs and Border Protection website on Oct. 10 for roughly five hours. The dramatic numbers raised questions over whether they were yanked to protect the administration before key midterm elections.

[Captain Hate]

Obama called the newly designated San Gabriel Mountains National Monument a gain for "social justice." WTH?

He's representing the trees that didn't vote.

[Iggy]

--"disenfranchised"--

Florence King once noted that since the "franchise" is the vote, where did the "en" come from? She says it should be "disfranchised".

Let's try that in a sentence; "women should be disfranchised."

As we can see it certainly does work, and just fine. Heh, heh.

[Jeff Dobbs]

jimmyk:
Loretta Lynch to be nominated as Holder's replacement, apparently.

Holder's getting Lynch'd.

[RickB]

OL,

Second!

I believe some thought should be given to selection of the chairmen for the joint select Break the Broomstick/Burn the TeePee oversight committees. There should be no more than two joint select committees and I would hope that Trey Gowdy will head one while Mike Lee heads the other. I would also hope the committees would be limited to seven majority members and five minority members to minimize bloviation. Joint select committees establish their own rules and great care should be exercised by the majority to refrain from appointing bloviators who just stink up what should be an ice cold process of exposure.

[peter]

Loretta Lynch is everything Obama is not, a hard working attorney who actually knows the law. wonder why she wants to soil her resume with an association with Dumb-dumb. I'll wager she may not stay through the entire rest of the term once she sees how vapid the WH insiders are. Elections have consequences. Had the GOP done worse on Tuesday, he would have nominated that racialist Perez

[Old Lurker]

Indeed, Rick.

[Extraneus]

POLITICO:

Reid not done with Koch brothers

[Dave (in MA)]

Gas below $3.

$1.79/g when the regime came into power.

[NKontheNovreboot]

I have not done any cases with the US Atty's Office EDNY since Lynch became US Atty there. I know nothing about her. I feel great shame.

[jimmyk]

Had the GOP done worse on Tuesday, he would have nominated that racialist Perez

I suspect you're right, though it would be a rare case of Obama actually bending to reality.

[Eric in Boise]

Loretta Lynch

I'd make a crack about "proud to be an organizer's daughter", but thankfully, per peter, she doesn't appear to be that type.

[Old Lurker]

Like not wanting to join any club that would have you, one wonders what is wrong with Lynch that she would clean up after the frat boys?

[NKontheNovreboot]

$1.79/g when the regime came into power.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | November 07, 2014 at 12:21 PM

And then the Regime and Bernanke conspired for QEI, QEII and QEIII and the great commdity Bubble was created.