{"id":27383,"date":"2017-05-01T13:08:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T20:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27383"},"modified":"2017-05-01T13:08:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T20:08:23","slug":"open-thread-512017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/01\/open-thread-512017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 5\/1\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a very long day and I’m very tired from setting up a new poll and from doing the research and preparing the graphics for tomorrow’s Monthly Report.  Please pardon my brevity.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today’s took me 3:29 (average 5:01).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Commenting on Donald Trump\u2019s first hundred days in office, Vice-President Mike Pence told Fox News on Sunday, \u201cTo tell you the truth, I really thought I\u2019d be President by now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I agreed to run on the ticket with him, I said to myself, \u2018Mike, after he\u2019s been in the White House for a few weeks, he\u2019ll be a total train wreck and you\u2019ll be able to slide into the big-boy chair,\u2019 \u201d Pence said. \u201cI never in a million years thought he\u2019d last a hundred days. My best guess was thirty.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former Indiana governor said that, with such seemingly fatal missteps as Trump\u2019s failed health-care plan and travel bans, as well as any number of unhinged outbursts, \u201cIt feels like I\u2019ve come close to getting in there maybe ten or twelve times. But close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.\u201d<\/p>\n

Calling the past hundred days \u201cthe longest hundred days of my life,\u201d Pence said that he has no choice now but to \u201csit and wait for my moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andy has made it clear that impeaching Trump is not enough. We also need to dump dozens of Republicans in the Presidential succession queue simultaneously. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>A man armed with a machete and a bag full of knives seriously injured a Kentucky student Friday morning in a politically motivated attack at a campus coffee shop….<\/p>\n

\u201cThe day of reckoning is here,\u201d the man said, according to witnesses.<\/p>\n

He then approached two women at the caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe asked the first girl if she was a Democrat or a Republican, she said Republican, (and) he said okay, then asked some other girl,\u201d said witness Michael Soder<\/a>. \u201cBy that time, some of my friends were running out and yelling for us to leave, and I tried to stay behind to see if \u2014 I mean I didn\u2019t know what to do, I wanted to help, but I knew I should get out of there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another witness shared a similar account.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe asked somebody what their political affiliation was, they said \u2018Republican,\u2019 and the guy said, \u2018You are safe,\u2019<\/strong> and then I realized what was going on and started getting people out,\u201d said witness Tristan Reynolds.<\/p>\n

The assailant, who police said was a former student, then pulled out a machete and attacked a woman in the caf\u00e9. [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/p>\n

I guess I need to retire the term Al Dubya<\/em> after all these years. Al Drumpfenfarten is a greater terrorist threat to America and the World than al Qaeda or the Daesh ever were.  RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Congressional leaders reached a bipartisan agreement on Sunday to fund the government through September, effectively ending any suspense about the possibility of a government shutdown next weekend.<\/p>\n

The agreement, which still must be voted on by lawmakers, includes increased funding for the military and for border security. But it does not include funding for the wall that President Trump wants to build along the border with Mexico, one of his major campaign promises.<\/p>\n

The deal increases funding for the National Institutes of Health, despite the Trump administration\u2019s request that its budget be reduced<\/a> for the rest of the fiscal year. And it provides millions of dollars to reimburse costs incurred by local law enforcement agencies to protect Mr. Trump and his family \u2014 a boon to New York City, which has had the costly task of helping to protect Trump Tower.<\/p>\n

The spending package would be the first significant bipartisan measure approved by Congress during the Trump presidency. Republicans, despite having control of both houses of Congress and the White House, were unable to pass any marquee legislation in the president\u2019s first 100 days.<\/p>\n

I’ll reserve judgment until I have more info, but it appears we got as much as we gave up or more, and the compromise appears better than a government shutdown.  RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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It’s been a very long day and I’m very tired from setting up a new poll and from doing the research and preparing the graphics for tomorrow’s Monthly Report.  Please pardon my brevity. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today’s took me 3:29 (average 5:01).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From The […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27383","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\/27383","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=27383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}