{"id":10277,"date":"2013-04-15T00:38:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T07:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10277"},"modified":"2013-04-15T00:38:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T07:38:28","slug":"open-thread4152013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/15\/open-thread4152013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–4\/15\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m still down, because overdoing it on Saturday set off my COPD yesterday, and I could not sleep.  I\u2019ll catch up on replies ASAP.  Tomorrow.  Happy Infernal Revenue Day. \"Crying<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 3:13 (average 4:24).  To do it click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Why It’s Harder To Be A Liberal In 11 Words<\/p>\n

\"15Liberal\"<\/p>\n

Also, it’s easy to invent sophistic lies that sound easy and simple, but the truth is often difficult and complex.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>It is an open scandal in Washington that the Federal Election Commission is completely ossified as the referee and penalizer of abuses in national politics. <\/p>\n

Karl Rove\u2019s powerful Crossroads GPS money machine cruelly underlined the agency\u2019s impotence last week with a snippy rebuff of a legitimate inquiry from the commission staff about the shadowy sources of the group\u2019s war chest. Crossroads GPS archly replied that continued inquiries on the matter \u201care unnecessary,\u201d but that if they keep coming, it will offer the same unrevealing response. <\/p>\n

This was no niggling issue. The election commission was asking for more details about the operation\u2019s 2012 fourth-quarter report showing more than $50 million in independent expenditures but not a sign of who donated the money. The insulting rebuke to the agency should be thrown back with a unanimous demand that election law be obeyed. But this is the F.E.C., one of the sorrier federal agencies, where standoffs engineered by the three Republican commissioners on the six-seat panel have stymied efforts to write regulations and enforce them. <\/p>\n

No matter which way we turn, we see Republicans polishing their expertise in election theft.<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>How the wealthy view social programs:<\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Why do the wealthy want to cut our earned entitlements, for which we have paid all our working lives? It’s clear that the elite donor class, aka the 1%, has declared class warfare on the rest of us. While there are members of the 1% that do support us, they are, sadly, few and far between.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m still down, because overdoing it on Saturday set off my COPD yesterday, and I could not sleep.  I\u2019ll catch up on replies ASAP.  Tomorrow.  Happy Infernal Revenue Day. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:13 (average 4:24).  To do it click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From MoveOn: Why It’s Harder To […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}