{"id":27333,"date":"2017-04-27T13:05:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27333"},"modified":"2017-04-27T13:05:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:05:20","slug":"open-thread-4272017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/27\/open-thread-4272017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/27\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I breathed water into my windpipe last night by coughing at the wrong time and set off severe choking and gasping.&#160; That undid the healing in my side, so my pain level is severe again.&#160; ARGH!&#160; The draft is tonight.&#160; May the Holy Ellipsoid orb guide and bless your team, named especially my Broncos.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:26 (average 4:28).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-04-27-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/all\" target=\"_blank\">All In<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Bernie Sanders sounds off on Trump&#8217;s latest fiascos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senator Bernie Sanders sounds off on the flurry of activity from the Trump administration, including its last-ditch effort to kill Obamacare and a tax cut plan that would give breaks to those who need then the least.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_hayes_bbernietrumpfiascos_170426\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Spot on, Bernie! Boycotting the Fuhrer&#8217;s photo-op was smart!. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2017\/04\/come-on-now-elijah-cummings-blasts-white-house-for-stonewalling-on-flynn-and-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>Maryland Democratic U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings said on Thursday that President Donald Trump and his administration are \u201cstonewalling\u201d the investigation into retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn\u2019s ties to Russia and lies to the federal government and doing everything it can to sabotage the investigation into the Trump campaign\u2019s ties to the Russian government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly the White House is stonewalling,\u201d Cummings told Willie Geist of \u201cMorning Joe.\u201d \u201cAnd I don\u2019t use that word frequently because I try to give the benefit of the doubt, but they have not given us one shred of paper on him, not one syllable \u2014 after a bipartisan request was made for contacts that the general had with the Russian and Turkish governments and any kind of information that would lead us to understand how he was vetted and what the process was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Geist asked Cummings why he thinks the White House would still be covering for Flynn even after his firing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis situation is one that leaves me baffled,\u201d Cummings said. \u201cHere\u2019s a man fired. Come on, now. Fired. He lied to the vice president but it seems that they have circled the wagons around him. I don\u2019t know what this is all about, but I\u2019ll tell you one thing. It leaves those of us who are looking into it, it makes us even more anxious to get information. And then it makes me wonder what if anything is being hidden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think I understand. The more the truth about Flynn&#8217;s treason is exposed, the closer we will be to criminally exposing Trump&#8217;s treason. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/26\/us\/politics\/nafta-executive-order-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>President Trump told the leaders of Mexico and Canada on Wednesday that he would not immediately move to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement, only hours after an administration official said he was likely to sign an order that would begin the process of pulling the United States out of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>In what the White House described as \u201cpleasant and productive\u201d evening phone calls with President Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto of Mexico and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, Mr. Trump said he would quickly start the process of renegotiating Nafta \u2014 not abandon it, as he said he would do during the 2016 presidential campaign if he could not rework the deal to his satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now that NAFTA is in operation, simply terminating it would cause economic upheaval in all three countries.. It needs to be updated, but not in any way Trump would want to renegotiate it. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0427Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0427Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0427Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"454\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Flask back to the Fourth Reich.&#160; From the present perspective of the Fifth Reich, I almost miss him,<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I breathed water into my windpipe last night by coughing at the wrong time and set off severe choking and gasping.&#160; That undid the healing in my side, so my pain level is severe again.&#160; ARGH!&#160; The draft is tonight.&#160; May the Holy Ellipsoid orb guide and bless your team, named especially my Broncos. 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