{"id":10323,"date":"2013-05-17T08:46:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T15:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10323"},"modified":"2013-05-17T08:46:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T15:46:52","slug":"open-thread5172013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/17\/open-thread5172013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–5\/17\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m in quite a bit of pain from my bad leg, but at least I have an Open Thread today.  I\u2019d like to share a quote from the writing of one of my guys in prison: \u201c<\/font>We cannot find peace or freedom while sowing the seeds of discord with dishonesty, intolerance, irresponsibility or disrespect<\/strong>.\u201d  If only someone would teach this to the Republican leadership.  My activity here should increase gradually.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:01 (average 4:44).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>With the House set on Friday to convene the first of its hearings into the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service, the lessons learned from the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, which cost Republicans in elections in 1998, have been on display in recent days.<\/p>\n

Listening to the hearings, I learned that the abuse, which Republicans are blaming on Obama, occurred during the Bush Regime under his appointees.  Under Obama, the same people continued the same policies.  In any event, this is clearly not a Democratic attack on Teabaggers.  If anything, it\u2019s an attack by the 1% wings of the Republican Party to limit the power of their Tea Party storm troopers, the monster they created, and now, cannot control.<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Today Speaker of the House John Boehner issued the following letter to the American people: <\/p>\n

Dear American People, <\/p>\n

Yesterday, your hardworking House Republicans tried, once again, and failed, once again, to repeal Obamacare. And I really thought we had a good chance this time. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s because we were all united in our hatred for this infernal and takes-too-long-to-read law. Every last one of us cast his vote to strike it down, from crazy little Paul Ryan to that arrogant bastard Eric Cantor. <\/p>\n

And I wish you could have seen the faces of those freshman Republicans as they voted to repeal Obamacare\u2014so innocent, so full of hope and wonder. As I told them yesterday, \u201cYou\u2019ll never forget your first time.\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n

Since retaking the House in 2010, Republicans have averaged 5.4 minutes out of every hour to repealing Obamacare.<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSNBC<\/a>: Deficits are shrinking at a historic pace.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

In spite of everything Republicans have done to sabotage our economy for political gain, the policies taken by Obama and the Democrats are working. The reason Republicans don’t cake is this. Everything their party does is a smokescreen for one of two Republican goals: either transfer of worth from the 99% to the 1%, or establishing a permanent regime of totalitarian Republican rule.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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I\u2019m in quite a bit of pain from my bad leg, but at least I have an Open Thread today.  I\u2019d like to share a quote from the writing of one of my guys in prison: \u201cWe cannot find peace or freedom while sowing the seeds of discord with dishonesty, intolerance, irresponsibility or disrespect.\u201d  If […]<\/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-10323","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\/10323","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=10323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}