If this is Republican victory, I'd hate to see what defeat looks like

http://www.investors.com/editorial-cartoons/michael-ramirez/727624

Liberals Still Don’t Realize They Lost   "Democrats lost control of the Senate and the House (again) earlier this month, but you’d never know it from the way they’re acting right now.

"Progressives are high-fiving each other over a new Benghazi report which still doesn’t reveal the deceptions Obama and Hillary used by blaming the attack on a YouTube video.

"They’re also really excited about Obama’s bold new power grab on immigration this week.

"They’re dreaming. They’re in denial.

"Ed Morrissey at The Week…

http://netrightdaily.com/2014/11/cartoon-emperor-strikes-back/

 

Congress Seems Happy to Have Its Powers Usurped    ..."In the Senate, meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren expressed her approval, as did power-players Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer, Patty Murray, Bob Menendez, and Michael Bennet. With a few virtuous exceptions, those that did not champion the action elected at best to remain silent." ...

 

" ...the root cause of the Republican party’s present dilemma is that the body that it leads has largely elected to abdicate its constitutional role — not, as President Obama likes to imply, because it has failed to do what the White House wishes it to do, but because it is proving so shamefully unwilling to defend its authority." ... 

McCain: Obama repeating Vietnam mistakes

'Why he hasn't learned from Iraq ... confounds me.'

 WND    

 

... "McCain ridiculed “the so-called air war against ISIS.”

“ 'We warned ISIS a week ahead of time that we’re going to strike. I’m told, I’ll find out when I get back to Washington, that the process of approval of a target strike is very similar to that of the Vietnam war, where the targets were decided in the White House in the situation room. I think in some ways we are seeing a replay of that war.”
...
"How did the former POW rate Obama as a commander in chief?

“ 'He’s got the same kind of team around him that Lyndon Johnson had around him. There’s just no doubt about it. This latest thing, trying to work with the Iranians against ISIS – the same people that are arming (Syrian President) Bashar al-Assad, the same people who brought in Hezbollah to change the equation on the battlefield. And providing Assad with the weapons and barrel bombs to slaughter the Free Syrian Army.”...

Obama And Holder Release Messages For Ferguson Mob And Law Enforcement

You law enforcement guys better behave!

Nice Deb  "Ahead of the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri, both outgoing (finally!)Attorney General Eric Holder and Emperor Obama released messages warning law enforcement to behave themselves.

“ 'The Justice Department encourages law enforcement officials, in every jurisdiction, to work with the communities they serve to minimize needless confrontation,” Holder said.

“ 'Over the past few months, we’ve seen demonstrations and protests that have sought to bring attention to real and significant underlying issues involving police practices, implicit bias, and pervasive community distrust.  And in most cases, these demonstrations have been both meaningful and responsible, and have brought vital issues to the attention of the public at large,” the Holder said in a video.

"(That’s a fascinating take since the shooting sparked months of  violent protests, property destruction and looting in Ferguson, and law enforcement officials there have been bracing for more violence  after the decision is announced.)

“ 'I know, from first-hand experience, that demonstrations like these have the potential to spark a sustained and positive national dialogue, to provide momentum to a necessary conversation, and to bring about critical reform.”

"Full transcript, here.
 

 

"What does he mean by “implicit bias?” Stopping a suspect who fits the description of a person who just robbed a convenience store? Should the police just stop doing their jobs so as not to show “implicit bias”?

"And I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that this “national dialogue” Holder wants to inflict on the nation isn’t the pro-law and order dialogue you and I would prefer. The cringe-inducing term “critical reform” applies to law enforcement - not law breakers." 
Emphasis added

Schlafly: Obama's election strategy for Ferguson flops  “I think that Obama and his attorney general really fomented [unrest] in order to hopefully win the election on November 4,” Schlafly said. “They wanted to inflame people in order to get their voters out to vote. I think it was deliberately done, and they weren’t content to just let the process take its course.

 

“ 'I think it has backfired, and the Republicans won a tremendous victory despite everything,” she added." ...

BREAKING!! Ferguson Grand Jury Announcement To Be Held On Sunday!!

Wayne Dupree   "Multiple news sources say that a Grand Jury decision has been made and it will be announced Sunday at some point. Developing…

"The shooting death of Michael Brown occurred on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, MO. a suburb of St. Louis. Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, 28, a white police officer. The disputed circumstances of the shooting resulted in protests and civil unrest and received a large amount of Nationwide, even worldwide attention.

"A Grand Jury is now deliberating on weather or not Wilson will be charged.

"CNN is reporting that Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, MO, police officer whose fatal shooting of a teenager, Michael Brown has set off months of tension, is in the final stages of negotiations to resign."

Some commentary on the global cooling/ global warming/ climate change scare.

Charles Krauthammer: The climate pact swindle

"... the radical unilateralism advocated by climate alarmists, would be not just economic suicide but economic suicide without purpose. It would do nothing to reduce atmospheric CO2 as long as China, India and the other developing nations more than make up for our cuts with their huge and increasing carbon emissions."

 

"China alone is firing up a new coal plant every eight to 10 days. We could close every coal mine in Kentucky and West Virginia and achieve absolutely nothing except devastating Appalachia and, in effect, shipping its economic lifeblood to China."...

 

... "The only way forward on greenhouse gases is global reduction by global agreement. A pact with China would be a good start.

 

"Unfortunately, the Obama-Xi agreement is nothing of the sort. It is a fraud of Gruberian (as in Jonathan) proportions. Its main plank commits China to begin cutting carbon emissions 16 years from now. On the other hand, the United States, having already cut more carbon emissions than any nation on earth since 2005, must now double its current rate of carbon cutting to meet a new, more restrictive goal by 2025. In return for which, China will keep increasing its carbon emissions year after year throughout that period — and for five years beyond.
Emphasis mine.

Alan Caruba: Obama's Cruel and Costly Climate Hoax

 

... "We are colder these days because the Earth has been in a cooling cycle for 19 years and that cycle is based entirely on the Sun which has been radiating less heat for the same period of time."

...

"A cruel and costly climate hoax is being perpetrated by President Obama and, in particular, by the Environmental Protection Agency. The new Congress must take whatever action it can to reverse and stop the harm that it represents; people’s jobs and lives depend on it."

Obama, The Guardian of the Constitution

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Obama’s Imperial Transformation Is Now Complete; The president has become everything he ran against.

Joe Wilson was right

Charles C. W. Cooke ... "Noting in 2008 that he “taught constitutional law for ten years,” and in consequence took “the Constitution very seriously,” Obama determined that “the biggest problems that we’re facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all.” “That,” the candidate assured his audience, is “what I intend to reverse when I’m president of the United States of America.”
...
 ..."Indeed, so utterly determined has this president been to adopt the emperor’s mantle, the New York Times records, that he went so far as to change his lawyers when the first collection told him that he was breaking the law. Richard Nixon, call your office."
...
"Today, the transformation of Barack Obama from wide-eyed idealist to bitter imperator will finally be completed. Amid the glitz and the artifice of Las Vegas, the last vestiges of the one we were waiting for will be swept ignominiously away, leaving only power, cynicism, and partisanship in their stead. There was a time when our 44th president claimed to stand for transparency, modesty, moderation, tolerance, humility, reason, and calm. Today, just feet from Caesars Palace, he will don the robes of the emperor and spin minor discretion into gargantuan usurpation, all norms and touchstones be damned. However convincing are the promises of the ambitious, Lord Acton always has the last laugh."

The Petulant Obama: U.S. Taxpayers Must Pay For Illegals’ Children

thegatewaypundit

Daily Caller

 

"Illegal immigrants will receive huge payments from American taxpayers under rules now being imposed by President Barack Obama’s unilateral amnesty.

"The illegals will get work-permits and Social Security cards, and will be required to pay taxes, according to Cecilia Munoz, the former immigration lobbyist who is now a top Obama aide.

"That means they’re part of the tax system, she said, when she was asked if the illegals would get annual payments under the Earned Income Tax Credit program.

“ 'They are subject to our tax law,” she said, carefully." ...

http://weaselzippers.us/

 

Obama Speaks For 15 Minutes – Refers To Himself 31 Times…  Read it all in the Full transcript here.

 

Gruber? I don't know no stinkin' Gruber.

Steve Wynn: I'm 'more scared' about US than China

 

CNBC  

Wynn continues to praise the business climate in China compared to the United States: "The regulatory burden in China is infinitesimal compared to the crap we get in America."

 

..."On the other hand, Wynn continues to disparage the White House: "I am stunned at the immaturity of this administration. ... We elected a man as president who had no experience at anything.' " ...

...

" 'The administration wants to punish everybody. That's part of the political mentality at the moment in America. Punish people.' "

 

Poll: Hispanics closely divided on executive amnesty

Thomas Lifson  
"An NBC News poll discovered that President Obama’s planned executive amnesty order is not overwhelmingly popular among Hispanics, while nearly half of all Americans oppose it.  In fact, the margin of opposition among all Americans is greater than the [margin] of support among Hispanics.

"The casual assumption that Spanish-speakers automatically want to open the floodgates for illegal immigrants overlooks the vast diversity among people grouped together in a census category that assumes people from Barcelona are the same as people from Tegucigalpa.  It also fails to recognize that people who came here legally, or whose ancestors did, may resent preference given to line-jumpers.

"Here is what the poll says (emphasis added):"... More here.

ABC, NBC, CBS Nix Obama's Primetime Amnesty Address

Big Journalism

 

... "CNN’s Brian Stelter reports that ABC, NBC, and CBS will not televise Obama’s speech. Stelter noted that the White House did not explicitly request airtime for the address before announcing it. Univision, however, is expected to air Obama’s speech.

"White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said that the president opted for a prime-time address to “talk to as many as Americans as possible.”

"Earnest added that 8:00 p.m. was when people were either “sitting in front of their televisions” or “sitting in front of their tablets or their smartphones.' ”