{"id":1471,"date":"2010-05-12T02:14:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T09:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2010-05-12T02:14:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T09:14:37","slug":"open-thread-5-12-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/12\/open-thread-5-12-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 5-12-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I caught up with comments, but got no visiting in.  Don\u2019t expect much from me today, because it\u2019s my volunteer day to co-facilitate a therapy group for former prisoners.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 4:09.  To do it, click here<\/a>. How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV) has been defeated for renomination in his Democratic primary by a more conservative opponent after 14 terms in office.<\/p>\n

Dang!  We lose a blue dog and the best we can get in that district is another blue dog with even more GOP fleas. \ud83d\ude41<\/font><\/p>\n

From Public Policy Polling<\/a>: <\/font>For the first time since October a majority of Americans express approval of Barack Obama’s job performance on PPP’s monthly national poll. 50% give him good marks to 46% who disapprove.<\/p>\n

I wonder if this reflects the report that Americans now pay less (proportionately) in taxes than at any time since the Truman administration.<\/font><\/p>\n

From BBC<\/a>: <\/font>Britain has its first full coalition government for 70 years after David Cameron was confirmed as Prime Minister of a Tory-Liberal Democrat leadership. <\/p>\n

If he follows in Margaret Thatcher\u2019s footsteps, he will transfer wealth to the rich while balancing the budget on the backs of the UK\u2019s poor and middle classes.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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See Cartoons by Cartoon by Nate Beeler<\/a> – Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com<\/a> – Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Happy Hump Day! \ud83d\ude00<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I caught up with comments, but got no visiting in.  Don\u2019t expect much from me today, because it\u2019s my volunteer day to co-facilitate a therapy group for former prisoners. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 4:09.  To do it, click here. How did you do? Short Takes: From TPM: Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV) […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-35-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","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=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}