{"id":12691,"date":"2014-05-05T01:20:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T08:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12691"},"modified":"2014-05-05T01:20:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T08:20:41","slug":"open-thread552014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/05\/open-thread552014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–5\/5\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and am feeling quite tired having done three weeks of laundry, folded it, and put it away.  Therefore, I shall be brief.  Day 15.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:21 (average 5:51).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who had been invited to give the commencement address at Rutgers University in New Jersey this month, said on Saturday that she would no longer give the speech. Her announcement came after weeks of protests by some students and faculty members over the university\u2019s decision to invite her.<\/p>\n

Protesters had argued that Ms. Rice should not have been selected as the speaker because of her involvement in the Iraq war during the Bush administration. Students staged a sit-in last week outside the office of the university\u2019s president, Robert L. Barchi, to protest the speech, scheduled for May 18th.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Ms. Rice released a statement saying that she did not want to detract from the day\u2019s festivities.<\/p>\n

Condi Rice (R-Chevron) should be giving her speech at The Hague. Kudos to the students at Rutgers for rejecting a Republican war criminal.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Roll Call<\/a> (H\/T Daily Kos<\/a>): <\/font>Rep. Janice Hahn just wanted to hear evangelist Billy Graham\u2019s daughter speak at Thursday\u2019s National Day of Prayer gathering on Capitol Hill, but she ended up storming out of the room before that portion of the program could get underway.<\/p>\n

The California Democrat said she was appalled by the remarks of Dr. James Dobson, saying she felt he went against the event\u2019s stated nonpartisan and apolitical intent by bashing Barack Obama and calling him the \u201cabortion president.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have this annual, national day of prayer, which is supposed to bring the whole country together to pray for our nation, and typically you put politics aside and you come together,\u201d Hahn told CQ Roll Call. \u201cJames Dobson just absolutely violated that, and I really think he did damage to what we try to do up here in Washington, D.C.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dobson, the founder of the conservative group Focus on the Family and host of the radio talk show \u201cFamily Talk,\u201d told those assembled in the Cannon Caucus Room that Obama\u2019s promotion of policies forcing taxpayers to fund abortion services was \u201coffensive to [his] very conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, if it isn’t hate-based, it isn’t prayer.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Glenn Beck: Hillary Clinton will have lesbian sex in White House.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Radio host Glenn Beck makes no secret of his distaste for Hillary Clinton. Another thing he dislikes: gay marriage. <\/p>\n

Beck is not sure that Hillary is a lesbian, but he is sure she would be willing to say she is a lesbian if it helps her get elected. Of course, she would. This is a woman who had her daughter knocked up in order to be a grandmother while she is running for president. Hillary stops at nothing. Having shoes thrown at her. Doing whatever it is she is supposed to have done in Benghazi. Faking an aneurysm.<\/p>\n

But the target here was gay marriage and all the politicians who opportunistically jumped on board to support it, all because of what Beck and his sidekicks scoffingly called \u201cthe arc of history.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of Beck\u2019s sidekicks gave him an opening he just had to drive through when he mentioned that Hillary Clinton came out in favor of gay marriage last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid you just say, came out?\u201d Beck asked with a little glint in his eye.<\/p>\n

"I’m telling you," Beck said<\/a>, "Hillary Clinton will be having sex with a woman on the White House desk if it becomes popular."<\/p>\n

They all laughed and laughed, imagining that very scene.<\/p>\n

This is just one of the seven vilest Republicans of last week. Click through for the other six.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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