{"id":19508,"date":"2016-01-30T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=19508"},"modified":"2016-01-30T13:30:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T21:30:08","slug":"open-thread1302016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/open-thread1302016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–1\/30\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I felt do tired that, when I had finished with m,y research, I returned to bed for a couple hours.  I still feel tired, so please pardon my brevity.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today’s took me 2:30 (average 4:41).  My fishy?  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>It seems that Jeb Bush, now reduced to an asterisk (*) in the 2016 Republican Presidential contest, has concluded that the best way to quickly burn through those millions upon millions of dollars in campaign donations he received is to perform a supreme act of self-immolation<\/a>, by resurrecting the infamous Terry Schiavo fiasco<\/a> in a new campaign ad<\/a>, paid for, morbidly enough, by a Bush PAC that calls itself \u201cRight To Rise."<\/p>\n

In addition to touting his high score with the NRA , the voice-over in Bush\u2019s new ad celebrates how then-Florida governor Bush \u201cfought time and again for the right to life," with an image of someone leaning over Schiavo, lying in a helpless vegetative state in her hospital bed.<\/p>\n

And while the general electorate will likely recoil in horror at this kind of crass opportunism, Bush apparently hopes the Republican base will be shocked and awed as they are reminded of his role in forcing the irreversibly and profoundly brain-damaged Schiavo to cling to life in direct contravention of what her husband explained would have been her own desires, simply to bolster his credentials among the forced-birth crowd of ghouls who demanded that the poor woman be kept resuscitated at all costs, no matter how much pain it caused to others. Because abortion or something.<\/p>\n

Bush Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n