Thrill Ride

One of the nice things about being a poor old lady is that stock market free falls don’t get me excited. I hope none of you are too inconvenienced, however. I suspect some vacation plans were canceled today.

There’s speculation that Joe Biden will announce his candidacy and that Liz Warren has agreed to run on the ticket with him. This is not known for certain, mind you. If true, however, this would certainly drop a bomb into the Dem nomination campaigns.

Die-hard non-genius Scott Walker wants President Obama to cancel Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the White House next month. Apparently Walker thinks China deliberately tanked its own economy to crash the U.S. stock market.

U.S. officials have said the summit will offer a chance for the Obama to raise concerns with Xi, while also making progress on other areas of cooperation such as combating climate change. China is also among the nations involved with the United States on a deal with Iran on its nuclear program.

But Walker said that Obama should cancel the visit because “there’s serious work to be done rather than pomp and circumstance. We need to see some backbone from President Obama.”

Yes, dimwit, there is serious work to be done, which is why the grown ups will get together and discuss it. You can stay home and play with your plastic Holsteins, or whatever you do.

17 thoughts on “Thrill Ride

  1. “We need to see some backbone from President Obama”

    How exactly does canceling a state visit show backbone?

  2. How? Well, maybe if you couple it with running through basement passageways to avoid protesters it does, cause that shows you’re the best pick to deal with ISIL.

  3. No matter what your position is on the anchor babies issue you hold the same position as Scott Walker.
    He’s got all the bases covered. I guess Charles and David weren’t happy with his first position, so he staked out another position, and that position didn’t suit them either.So now the anchor baby issue has been incorporated into the mystery agenda awaiting implementation on day one.. Scotty’s gonna hit the deck a runnin’ and cure all the ills that ail the American economy.

    Walker is a joke.. He’s the Koch brother’s pet project marionette.

  4. Face palm. See the crap we’ve been putting up with here in cheese land for the past five years? I don’t suppose anyone at this point is wondering why he wasn’t able to finish college. My only fear is that after Walker gets his commupance he’ll come back here looking for someone to blame and it’s usually us teachers he goes after. Because it’s our fault that he doesn’t know the difference between a Sunni, Shia, ISIL or kindergarten teachers protesting his horrid education policies.

  5. Love the plastic Holstein comment.

    Of course, Scottie fails to mention *he* went to China to work on a trade deal. Yes, Wisconsin is trading with the most destructive economy on Earth.

    Re the China stock market– I don’t think China’s stock market has nearly as much power to put brakes on our economy as the flood of bad mortgages in 2008. We have less skin in this game.

  6. Governor Snottie Wanker is proving to be more and more of a bad joke every day.

    Where would he be without the Brothers Koch?

    He looks too squirrelly and weasely to hire to work in a shoe store, for fear he’d be discovered by the customers – male and female – of trying to look up their shorts and skirts. And sniffing at their old shoes.

    And he’s far too stupid to entrust with even an overnight job stocking shelves in some backwater, far off the main highway, WaWa, for fear that he’d hurt himself, or couldn’t tell canned tuna from pet food, and get some inattentive customer sick.

    It’s not difficult to see why he never finished college.
    The amazing thing is that he got past JHS into HS!

    What a stupid and ignorant sociopathic git!

  7. I really can’t see how Warren would ever get on the ticket with the guy who spearheaded the bankruptcy bill of 2005. If she did, I would lose a lot of respect for her. Also, Democratic presidents can’t afford to fish their nominees out of the senate anymore. Leave them where they are.

  8. Agree with Zoomar 100%: moving Warren out of a legislature that is literally starving for lack of talent is a dreadful misallocation of resources.

    • There are reports Warren has not committed to run for Senate again, however. I’d rather see her be veep than not in government at all.

  9. Months and months ago I saw a “SANDERS/WARREN 2016” bumper sticker in a parking lot. At least that pairing kinda made sense. And is about as likely as Gaffey Joe and Liz.

  10. Warren is my only hope for sanity in this mess. How about Elizabeth Warren and Rachel Maddow on a ticket? Otherwise I may have to revert to writing in candidates-Pepe LaPew, maybe? Anybody old enough enough to remember him?

  11. My ‘pick’ of the nominees doesn’t register on the polls. Lawrence Lessig is running as a ‘referendum’ president – who would resign after reforms related to campaign money are passed. The strategy has merit if not a following. Since nothing will get done on anything while money dominates in both parties, the first step to getting anything done is getting the money out of politics. No professional politician can succeed by making enemies in his own party as well as the opposition. Lessig doesn’t intend to succeed over the long term – he’s willing to make deadly enemies in both parties, calling out corruption and naming names and pointing fingers. If they want him to leave DC, they can pass reform – and he’ll gladly go, leaving the White House to a more conventional and qualified occupant.

  12. Going OT – I’ve been trying to add a legal expert to my team – he’s got decades of experience in civil disobedience cases. The judge ruled he can come aboard & I will keep my public defender. I head back up to DC tomorrow – impatient to set a court date.

  13. Doug: I’ve been wrapped up in my own situation of the stress of moving lately so have forgotten about other people. Thanks for bringing your problems back to my attention. I will send energy and love to you as you continue with your struggle.

  14. A little of topic, but seeing how thrill ride is the title of the thread, well, it’s kinda similar in some respects. It seems Josh Duggar has been doing a little thrill riding of his own. He likes riding bareback, but not the same kind of riding bareback that one might expect to see at Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show.. If that doesn’t give a thrill —especially when you can bring something extra home to the misses — than nothing will. It sure beats hang gliding.
    I’ve heard it said that one of the traits of highly successful people is that they are risk takers. I guess that accounts for why Josh has been such a highly successful advocate for the GOP’s Christian claim to the moral high ground for family values.
    Nothing says love like giving your wife or even subjecting her to the possibility of an STD. I guess the only question to ask is..WWJD?

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/josh-duggar-rehab-cheating-scandal_55ddfb99e4b04ae497056930?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592&kvcommref=mostpopular

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