{"id":27405,"date":"2017-05-04T13:48:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T20:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27405"},"modified":"2017-05-04T13:48:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T20:48:57","slug":"open-thread-542017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/04\/open-thread-542017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/4\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s so sticky here in Portland that I&#8217;m about to melt.&#160; Fortunately tomorrow will be 20\u00b0 cooler.&#160; JD sent me some lovely earrings featuring the Democratic Party donkey.&#160; I&#8217;d wear one myself, but I don&#8217;t have pierced ears.&#160; Wendy loves her pair, and asked me to say thanks.&#160; And finally, I got to kiss her ass.&#160; Wooo Hooo!!&#160; Thanks JD!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:49 (average 5:51).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-05-04-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=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uRU51OvhSyw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Why Won\u2019t the Press Ask Trump Anything? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/uRU51OvhSyw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Keith could not be more spot-on. With very few rare exceptions (Rachel, Chris, Lawrence) the US media had failed in their obligation to be the fourth estate. Nail Trump and his entire Reich, world media! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/state--regional-govt--politics\/federal-judge-orders-georgia-open-voter-registration-ahead-6th-district-runoff\/\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/a>: <\/font>A federal judge on Thursday ordered Georgia to temporarily reopen voter registration ahead of <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.blog.ajc.com\/2017\/05\/01\/poll-ossoff-in-dead-heat-with-handel-in-georgias-6th\/\" target=\"_blank\">a hotly contested congressional runoff in the 6th District.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten made the ruling as part of a broader lawsuit by a Washington-based advocacy group, which last month <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myajc.com\/news\/state--regional-govt--politics\/suit-claims-georgia-voter-registration-violates-federal-law\/5boPRxoDMGhK8wM8ecSyoK\/\" target=\"_blank\">accused Georgia of violating federal law by reducing the amount of time residents have to register to vote.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Voter registration shut down March 20 ahead of the deciding runoff June 20 for the 6th District election, which is being held in the northern suburbs of metro Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Batten, however, ordered registration immediately re-opened until May 21.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich can&#8217;t win unless they control who votes. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/5\/2\/1658277\/-CNN-Sources-Sally-Yates-will-contradict-White-House-version-of-her-warning-about-Mike-Flynn\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/05\/02\/politics\/sally-yates-michael-flynn-testimony-contradict\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a> is now reporting her warning was much more emphatic.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Washington (CNN)Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates is prepared to testify before a Senate panel next week that she gave a forceful warning to the White House regarding then-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn nearly three weeks before he was fired, contradicting the administration&#8217;s version of events, sources familiar with her account tell CNN.<\/p>\n<p>In a private meeting January 26, Yates told White House Counsel Don McGahn that Flynn was lying when he denied in public and private that he had discussed US sanctions on Russia in conversations with Russian Ambassador to the US Sergei Kislyak. Flynn&#8217;s misleading comments, Yates said, made him potentially vulnerable to being compromised by Russia, according to sources familiar with her version of events. She expressed &quot;serious concerns&quot; to McGahn, making it clear &#8212; without making a recommendation &#8212; that Flynn could be fired. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On February 14, the day after Flynn&#8217;s firing, White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters that Yates had simply &quot;wanted to give a &#8216;heads up&#8217; to us on some comments that may have seemed in conflict with what he (Flynn) had sent the Vice President.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Why did it take the White House 17 days to fire Flynn after this warning?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>CNN notes that due to national security constraints, we may not hear the full story.<\/p>\n<p>Drip, drip, drip.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The noose tightens. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0504Cartoon\" 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=\"0504Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0504Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s so sticky here in Portland that I&#8217;m about to melt.&#160; Fortunately tomorrow will be 20\u00b0 cooler.&#160; JD sent me some lovely earrings featuring the Democratic Party donkey.&#160; I&#8217;d wear one myself, but I don&#8217;t have pierced ears.&#160; Wendy loves her pair, and asked me to say thanks.&#160; And finally, I got to kiss her <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/04\/open-thread-542017\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-27405","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\/27405","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=27405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}