{"id":11322,"date":"2013-10-08T01:24:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T08:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11322"},"modified":"2013-10-08T01:24:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T08:24:31","slug":"open-thread1082013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/08\/open-thread1082013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–10\/8\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and need to catch up some sleep because Stuck on Stupid and Disability Check Queen are fighting, not again, but still.  In addition I made a store run and did laundry.  Tomorrow is a prison volunteer day, so expect me to be hurrying then and possibly lust Open Threads or absent Wednesday and\/or Thursday.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:25 (average 4:27).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) raised the ante in the battle over the Affordable Care Act on Sunday, telling CNN\u2019s Candy Crowley that \u201cdestroying the entire planet is really the best and only way to stop Obamacare.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, I\u2019m in favor of shutting down the government and not raising the debt ceiling, but let\u2019s not kid ourselves. Those are only half measures,\u201d he told Crowley. \u201cIf we are really serious about stopping Obamacare, we\u2019ll destroy the entire planet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Explaining his proposal to a visibly alarmed Crowley, Senator Cruz said, \u201cObamacare is like a parasite that needs a host to feed on. If you want to kill the parasite you kill the host, and in this case that means killing this planet. As long as there\u2019s a planet Earth, the nightmare of Obamacare could always come screaming back to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

While he was not specific about how he would go about destroying the planet, Cruz said, \u201cThis is something that my colleagues and I have been working on for some time.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the event of a Debt Default, Andy may be prophetic.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Pat Robertson to elderly woman viewer: It\u2019s your fault your husband\u2019s health his suffering.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Always willing to comfort his flock, Pat Robertson used his \u201c700 Club\u201d pulpit recently to set a woman straight about priorities. Retired and living on a small pension and Social Security pension, the woman was faced with the difficult decision of whether to give money to her church or pay her husband\u2019s medical expenses.<\/p>\n

This whole situation is all her fault, Robertson told her. Her husband is sick precisely because her contribution to the church has been inadequate, despite a lifetime of tithing.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour husband has all these medical problems because the \u2018devour\u2019 has not been rebuked,\u201d Robertson explained. \u201cYou need to rebuke him. You give your tithes faithfully and God said, \u2018I will rebuke the devour,\u2019 the person that is eating up your money and eating up your health. So you want to be healthy? That\u2019s a promise in the word.\u201d<\/p>\n

This just one of ten appalling statements from the Republican madhouse in the last week alone. Click through for the other nine. As for Republican Supply-side pseudo Christian, Pat Robertson, someone needs to upset his tables and drive him from the temple with a whip of cords.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>The U.S. Chamber of Commerce<\/a>, the bedrock of traditional Republicanism, now says<\/a> that it will get involved in Republican primaries by providing financial support to incumbent Republicans who vote to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling. In other words, if some Republicans act responsibly and then have to face tea party challengers accusing them of being RINOs<\/a>, the Chamber will have the back of those reasonable Republicans. It’s a civil war within the GOP, folks.<\/p>\n

That’s how far off the deep end the tea party and right-wing House Republicans have gone. They’ve lost the Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n

This Republican sedition even hurts most of the business community. Whether this will matter, I know not, but for the Republican’s own sake, this is the best that could happen. With promised backing from the chamber, those Republicans, who said they will support a clean CR, will have no excuse for failing to sign the discharge petition.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and need to catch up some sleep because Stuck on Stupid and Disability Check Queen are fighting, not again, but still.  In addition I made a store run and did laundry.  Tomorrow is a prison volunteer day, so expect me to be hurrying then and possibly lust Open Threads or absent […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322","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=11322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}