Today is the 15th. I was so out of it yesterday that I thought I had uploaded this!
Yesterday the heat wave continued with the temperature in my enclosed breezeway reaching 129° and at my desk 91°. Between the heat and the COPD, I had almost no sleep, so again this will be my only post for the day., I’m current with replies. Tomorrow should be cooler, but it will probably take a day for the building to bleed off the accumulated heat.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:53 (average 5:34). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From MoveOn: 5 Huge Ways Tax Cuts For Millionaires Are Affecting The 99%
The Republican mantra: Greed over need.
From NT Times: This week, the House will take up the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act, a bill that has already passed the Senate with bipartisan support. The White House has promoted the bill’s renewal as an important tool in protecting women.
But House Republicans have balked at the Senate’s version, preferring a version that White House officials and Democrats have derided as a way to weaken the legal protections for women. That could set up a contentious debate that may put Mr. Romney in an awkward position as he courts women voters.
Mr. Romney has said he hopes a version of the act can be reauthorized. But a protracted fight over the issue in Congress will give Mr. Obama and the Democrats another opportunity to accuse the Republicans of conducting a “war on women.”
How else could we reasonably describe promoting violence against women in this manner? Of course it a war on women.
From Newser: Team Romney’s rule of thumb: Do the opposite of everything John McCain did in 2008, or so reports Politico in a look at the campaign’s strategy. The approach applies broadly, say advisers—focus hugely on the economy, fully engage in fundraising, integrate early with the Republican National Committee—but comes most into play in the search for a VP. The campaign doesn’t want to end up with its own version of Sarah Palin, so it is going to great lengths to avoid anyone who could be seen as unprepared. The goal, according to one official: Go with an "incredibly boring white guy."
Could this mean that Romney intends to be his own VP?
Cartoon:
4 Responses to “Open Thread–5/14/2012”
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4:05 I think we’ve had this one before.
I think so too. bit it didn’t help.
MoveOn — Right on!!!!! Way #6 Untold Millions of people and the feeling of hopelessness that they feel day after day!
VAWA — Theese House GOP nut jobs really are ‘sadomasochistic’, particularly in the deriving of pleasure from inflicting physical or emotional abuse towards women, and others by reducing protections. (Please note I do NOT mean sexual sadomasochism!)
“Mr. Romney has said he hopes a version of the act can be reauthorized. But a protracted fight over the issue in Congress will give Mr. Obama and the Democrats another opportunity to accuse the Republicans of conducting a “war on women.”” — If the victims were GOP wives, daughters, sisters, mothers etc, would the GOP be so gung-ho to reduce protections? Or maybe that is how some of these people keep their families in line with their 12th century thinking. In any event, pure war on women!
I can only think that this is nothing more than not wanting to agree with Democrats, in other words, pure obstructionism. I also have to wonder why this act needs to be renewed every 5 years when violence against women is probably the oldest crime on the books!
Rmoney’s VP choice — I hear that South Dakota’s Noem might be vying for the job, but she is not a boring white male. I can’t think that this GOP would entertain such a radical idea as a woman VP, but then as I understand, she has been quiet in the background, Perhaps the almost perfect GOP hausfrau. Maybe he’ll be different and pick Alan West, despicable little man that he is — fits right in with the war on women. What about Exxon Mobil or Bain Capital? Afterall, corporations are people according to SCOTUS. Or as you say TC, maybe himself. If he disagreed with the VP, he’d have only himself to blame. And heavens to betsy, he has enough different positions of issues to count as 2 people.
Cartoon — Peace in the Middle East in MY lifetime!!!!!
Amen!
I understand. You mean misanthropic.
I don’t think so. When GOP wives and daughters are victims, GOP men are the perps.
See today’s #2.
He has enough different positions to count as Congress.
Amen!