{"id":13777,"date":"2014-09-29T00:02:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T07:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13777"},"modified":"2014-09-29T00:02:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T07:02:16","slug":"open-thread9292014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/29\/open-thread9292014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–9\/29\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 161.  I\u2019m also waiting tor the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, although today\u2019s will be lesser meditations, since my Broncos have their bi week.  I also have a busy week upcoming.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:57 (average 4:33).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Daily Kos<\/a> (Hat-Tip JL A from Care2): <\/font><\/p>\n

Mother Jones offers up a short bio of likely new House Republican Glenn Grothman, the notorious Wisconsin state senator who won the Republican primary and now looks to be a shoe-in in the hard-right 6th district. Think Michele Bachmann without the charm, or Steve King without Steve King’s kind and gentle demeanor. Anyway, he is a terrible person and that a bunch of people in one Wisconsin district are actually willing to vote to send this specimen of underripe humanity off to govern us all makes a good case for quarantine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In January, Grothman proposed rolling back a Wisconsin law requiring employers to give workers at least one day of rest per week. He told the Huffington Post the existing state law was "a little goofy" and his proposal was about "freedom." "Right now in Wisconsin, you’re not supposed to work seven days in a row, which is a little ridiculous because all sorts of people want to work seven days a week," he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You’ll find even more TEAbuggery if you click through. Poor Fitzwalkerstan!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>A Republican Super PAC defended the broadcast, on Saturday morning, of an attack ad highly critical of Hillary Clinton\u2019s newborn granddaughter, Charlotte, who was born on Friday.<\/p>\n

The ad raises several serious questions about the newborn, at one point accusing her of being \u201crelated to Benghazi.\u201d<\/p>\n

In criticizing a one-day-old infant, the ad is believed to be the earliest political attack ad on record\u2026<\/p>\n

Andy may have detected a northward trend. A Kenyan baby scandal for the 2008 election to a Benghazi baby scandal for the 2016 election. Hopefully the Republican will no longer exist by 2024, but if they do they may scam voters with an Italian baby scandal.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Enrollment in Medicaid is surging as a result of the Affordable Care Act, but the Obama administration and state officials have done little to ensure that new beneficiaries have access to doctors after they get their Medicaid cards, federal investigators say in a new report.<\/p>\n

The report, to be issued this week by the inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services, says state standards for access to care vary widely and are rarely enforced. As a result, it says, Medicaid patients often find that they must wait for months or travel long distances to see a doctor\u2026<\/p>\n

…Twenty-seven states have expanded Medicaid eligibility since the passage of the health care law in 2010, and President Obama is urging other states to do so.<\/p>\n

Most states hire insurance companies to manage care for Medicaid patients. In return for monthly fees, the insurers provide comprehensive services through networks of selected doctors and hospitals. Federal rules say managed-care organizations must \u201cprovide adequate access to all services covered,\u201d but states can define what \u201cadequate\u201d means.<\/p>\n

The Times is wrong to blame the Obama Administration for an entirely state demesne. I’m sure they would love to fix the problem, but the Republican House will go along the day after hell freezes over. Some red states have figured out that they can get the Medicaid money from the feds, while defining adequate services as preserving the RepubliCare death benefit.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"0929Cartoon\"<\/font><\/p>\n

I consider this one too good not to resurrect it from last year.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 161.  I\u2019m also waiting tor the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, although today\u2019s will be lesser meditations, since my Broncos have their bi week.  I also have a busy week upcoming. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:57 (average 4:33).  To do it, click here.  How did you do. Short […]<\/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-13777","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\/13777","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=13777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}