Obama Tends To Back The Losing Team

The Detroit News: Aide: Obama endorses UAW bid to organize VW plant

So Obama lets it out that he heavily backs unionizing VW in Tenessee to try and use his influence to push for unionization there, because the UAW has done such good things for the US auto industry, like turning one of the Big three into a Dutch corp or dragging another into bankruptcy. Perhaps and more likely it's just all the good things the UAW has done for the Democrats.

The result just now in the Detroit Free Press: VW workers in Tennessee stun UAW, reject union by 712-626 margin

Ah the famous Obama reverse-Midas touch in action yet again.

The UAW suffered a devastating defeat at Volkswagen’s plant here as workers rejected union representation by a 712-626 margin.

The defeat, which came despite Volkswagen’s neutrality, tarnishes UAW President Bob King’s legacy and could make it next to impossible for the union to extend its reach beyond domestic automakers.

. . .

Even President Barack Obama weighed in Friday, taking aim at Tennessee Republican leaders, including U.S. Sen. Bob Corker and Gov. Bill Haslam, who he said “are more concerned about German shareholders than American workers.”

You know, there's a fine and fitting German word for what I'm feeling at the moment. . . . . Schadenfreude. Sweet, sweet schadenfreude.

Schadenfreude Is A Dish Best Served Ice Cold

Sometimes reality gives you delicious situations that fiction on its best day couldn't even dare to dream up.

The story: An intrepid group of global warming aficionados and true believers travel to Antarctica on a propaganda tour to see what, according to their theory, should be a massive loss of ice and open seas due to their Global Warming Theory.

Cold reality hits and they and their ship, the Akademik Shokalskiy, get completely trapped in a record amount of ice. So much ice in fact that ice breakers cannot get through to free them.

That would be, and indeed is, funny and ironic enough.

But, it gets oh so much better.

Who do they need to reach out to in order to find out actual weather information relating to their plight?

Why, two of the leading real scientists and skeptics of their global warming construct.

You can't make this up.

Go follow the whole thing over on Watts Up With That.

I suggest reading the true tale with a big bowl of popcorn by your side and a nice hot toddy.

Update: And they're finally rescued, by a carbon-emitting, fossil-fueled helicopter.

Wish I'd said that......

A perfectly sublime remark by "GavInTucson" found in the comments section of the New York Post's editorial on the meeting between President Hu Jintao and President Obama:

Am I the only one that finds it ironic that the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner is holding a State dinner for the man that imprisoned the 2010 winner?

Brilliant.