Friday, December 05, 2014

'Toontime: Lamest Duck

Many cartoonists, not all in the US, are relishing the pictorial possibilities of the traditional American political sobriquet, "lame duck":

credit: Marian Kamensky, Nebelspalter, Switzerland 
Wackydoodle sez: Leastways y'al got a paddle.

credit: Markus Szykowitz, Vienna
BC Idonwanna sez: Mmmm...Chief like Peking duck!

But the answer to the question who is the lamest duck is pretty clear by now. Vladimirovitch just executed another end run around the addled West by inking a gas deal with Turkey's President Erdogan as a replacement to the South Stream gas pipeline project blocked by NATO. Turkey just happens to be a NATO ally; but Erdogan knows where the bottom line is.