{"id":20163,"date":"2016-02-26T03:21:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T11:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=20163"},"modified":"2016-02-26T03:21:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T11:21:40","slug":"squatchs-open-thread-25022016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/26\/squatchs-open-thread-25022016\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatch&#8217;s Open Thread 25\/02\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">I had my monthly ladies&#39; lunch today and then hobbled home to put my foot up. &nbsp;It is very painful but not as much as before my physio worked on it Wednesday. &nbsp;I wish I knew what I did! &nbsp;Another very pleasant day today getting up to 17 C (63 F), sunny and the birds were having a party! &nbsp;I think there was some birdie nookie going on in the bushes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">YouTube<\/span><\/strong> &#8212;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DRauXXz6t0Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">With so many anti abortion related laws, I thought John Oliver did an excellent job. &nbsp;It should be, IMO, a woman&#39;s right to choose. &nbsp;The anti abortion movement is nothing less than one group, often a religious group, ramming their views down everyone&#39;s throat, believer or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2016\/01\/25\/rats-fleeing-sinking-ship-rush-limbaugh-blames-obama-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>Politicus<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &#8212;&nbsp;As the Republican Party appears poised to nominate Trump and get thumped in November, Rush Limbaugh is already making excuses and blaming President Obama for the hatred and bigotry that is allowing Trump to flourish in the Republican primary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color:#FF0000;\"><strong>BARF BAG ALERT!!! &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;BARF BAG ALERT!!! &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;BARF BAG ALERT!!! &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;BARF BAG ALERT!!! &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iframe%20class=video-embed%20src=https:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/208146%20width=480%20height=360%20frameborder=0%20allowfullscreen%20scrolling=no\/iframe\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"video-embed\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/208146\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Limbarf is in his usual rut . . . blame Obama for everything! &nbsp;More sponsors have pulled away so we can only hope that he will disappear soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2016\/02\/gop-debate-implodes-out-control-screaming\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>Crooks and Liars<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &#8212;&nbsp;At one point in tonight&#39;s embarrassment of a debate, Trump really laid into Cruz for his smarmy, underhanded tactics in Iowa, which set Cruz off big time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iframe%20width=600%20height=338%20src=\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/embed\/9o3yPffZ%20frameborder=0%20allowfullscreen\/iframe\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"338\" src=\"\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/embed\/9o3yPffZ\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Welcome to Republican debate, or was it a slugfest?. &nbsp;I &nbsp;didn&#39;t watch the debate but from what I&#39;ve seen and read, 3 year olds would have done a better job AND paid attention to the rules. &nbsp;In this last debate before super Tuesday, participants showed just how moronic they really are! &nbsp;Anyone who votes for any of these clowns needs to have their sanity checked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/02\/supreme-court-mcconnell-schumer-219748\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>Politico<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &#8212; But the Senate&rsquo;s war over the Supreme Court has pushed those concerns into the background and united the party faithful behind Senate Majority Leader McConnell and the New York senator, the Democratic leader-in-waiting. With the backing of their respective bases, both leaders have a stronger hand in a fight that will shape the highest court in the land &mdash; if not their status as party leaders and relationship with each other.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a stunning and sudden turn for two men viewed with intense skepticism by their party&rsquo;s activist wings. After 14 months of relentless criticism from Ted Cruz and Heritage Action, McConnell is giving them what they want: the hardest possible line of obstruction on a new Supreme Court nominee, meaning no hearings, no votes and no meetings to fill the vacancy left by Justice Antonin Scalia&rsquo;s death. And Schumer, who was hounded by the base for opposing President Barack Obama&rsquo;s nuclear deal with Iran, is winning praise for his confrontation with McConnell from groups that wanted to cut off his fundraising spigot last summer.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>H\/T Pat B<\/strong> who provided this link in her comments:<\/span> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.groopspeak.com\/president-obama-just-made-a-skillful-chess-move-gop-takes-the-bait-like-candy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Obama and the&nbsp;SCOTUS Nomination<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3CE46apHb2M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">And here is an e-mail from Sherrod Brown and petition that you have likely seen. &nbsp;If not, the links are active so you can sign the petition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"background-color:#FFFF00;\">&quot;McConnell: Not a &#39;snowball&#39;s chance in hell&#39; I&#39;ll relent on SCOTUS<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"background-color:#FFFF00;\">&quot;<\/span> &#8212;&nbsp;<em>Politico<\/em>, 2\/23\/2016<\/p>\n<p>Republican Senators are refusing to even consider a replacement Supreme Court justice. They say we should wait. They say we have to wait for the people to choose a new president, and that&nbsp;<em>that<\/em>president should pick a nominee.<\/p>\n<p>They seem to be forgetting a very simple and obvious fact: Whether they like it or not, we have an elected president. In 2012, more than 65 million Americans cast their vote for President Barack Obama. He was elected twice.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama will fulfill his constitutional duty to nominate a qualified individual to the Supreme Court. The Senate must do the same.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oh.sherrodbrown.com\/page\/m\/302fe172\/447b5318\/1624f62f\/20022478\/1645761880\/VEsH\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/oh.sherrodbrown.com\/e160224a\"><strong>Join me and tell Senate Republicans to do their constitutionally mandated jobs. Sign our petition.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No Supreme Court nominee in the last 36 years has ever waited longer than 100 days for hearings and a vote. In that same period of time, there has never been a Supreme Court vacancy that spanned more than one presidential term. And there has never been a vacancy for more than four months while the Court is in session.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s clear: Republican extremists are once again trying to have their cake and eat it, too. They profess fealty to the Constitution, yet they choose to ignore the Constitution when it requires that they work with a Democratic president whom they don&rsquo;t like. There is nothing principled about this &#8212; this is power politics with the goal of delegitimizing a twice-elected President.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oh.sherrodbrown.com\/page\/m\/302fe172\/447b5318\/1624f62f\/20022478\/1645761880\/VEsE\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/oh.sherrodbrown.com\/e160224a\"><strong>The GOP needs to understand that the American people will not accept their blatantly unconstitutional attempts to keep conservative control over the Supreme Court. They need to hear from you that you are watching, and that you demand they do their jobs.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you,<\/p>\n<p>Sherrod<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">In an Alternet article by <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/jim-hightower-why-should-you-and-i-have-keep-paying-mitch-mcconnells-salary\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>Jim Hightower<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">,&nbsp;he asks the question that I am sure is on a lot of minds:&nbsp;<strong>Why Should You and I Have to Keep Paying Mitch McConnell&#39;s Salary?\u200b<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;With all the shenanigans, the same question could be asked for all Republican senators. &nbsp;If they don&#39;t want to do their jobs, then get out!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>My Universe<\/strong> &#8212; I stumbled upon this and thought &quot;Ain&#39;t nature magnificent!&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7o0_LWDz_4k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had my monthly ladies&#39; lunch today and then hobbled home to put my foot up. &nbsp;It is very painful but not as much as before my physio worked on it Wednesday. &nbsp;I wish I knew what I did! &nbsp;Another very pleasant day today getting up to 17 C (63 F), sunny and the birds <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/26\/squatchs-open-thread-25022016\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-politics","category-35-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\/20163","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}