{"id":27559,"date":"2017-05-14T12:19:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T19:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27559"},"modified":"2017-05-14T12:19:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T19:19:42","slug":"open-thread-5142017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/14\/open-thread-5142017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/14\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m trying to finish as much as I can early, because Wendy is due soon to de-stink the sticky TomCat and help with household tasks.&#160; I&#8217;ll probably publish this shortly after Noon, about four hours from now.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:58 (average 5:02).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-05-14-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=ZBPt335vcAQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Lester Holt Cold Open &#8211; SNL<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ZBPt335vcAQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang! I never expected SNL to do straight news, but it&#8217;s all so accurate! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/new-report-says-jason-chaffetz-might-be-heading-to-fox-news-of-all-places\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mediaite<\/a>: <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonian.com\/2017\/05\/13\/jason-chaffetz-fox-news-house-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\">Per their report<\/a>, Chaffetz has actually been telling his Republican colleagues he\u2019s heading for the Donald Trump-approved universe of Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what Elaina Plott wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to two GOP lawmakers who have spoken to Chaffetz directly and four senior House Republican aides, Chaffetz has been telling people he\u2019ll take on what one source calls a \u201csubstantial role\u201d in on-air talent at Fox News Channel, possibly as early as July, amplifying whispers that Chaffetz will not finish out his current term.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What landing strip could be more appropriate than the Republican Reichsministry of propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, for the Republican coward, who ran from the House pseudo-investigation of Trump treason. RESIST!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/13\/opinion\/sunday\/the-republicans-guide-to-presidential-behavior.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>What do Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and other Republican leaders think a president may say or do and still deserve their enthusiastic support? We offer this handy reference list in hopes of protecting them from charges of hypocrisy in the future. They can consult it should they ever feel tempted to insist on different standards for another president. So, herewith, the Congressional Republican\u2019s Guide to Presidential Behavior.<\/p>\n<p>If you are the president, you may freely:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2016\/12\/trump-attacks-union-leader-for-daring-to-fact-check-him.html\" target=\"_blank\">attack<\/a> private citizens on Twitter     <br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/04\/us\/james-robart-judge-trump-ban-seattle.html\" target=\"_blank\">delegitimize<\/a> federal judges who rule against you     <br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2017\/02\/28\/trump-passes-blame-for-yemen-raid-to-his-generals-they-lost-ryan\/?utm_term=.c31aa8ff4baf\" target=\"_blank\">refuse<\/a> to take responsibility for military actions gone awry     <br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/09\/us\/politics\/james-comey-fired-fbi.html\" target=\"_blank\">fire<\/a> the F.B.I. chief in the middle of his expanding investigation into your campaign and your associates     <br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/04\/us\/politics\/trump-obama-tap-phones.html\" target=\"_blank\">accuse<\/a> a former president, without evidence, of an impeachable offense     <br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/14\/us\/politics\/russia-intelligence-communications-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\">employ<\/a> top aides with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/11\/opinion\/trump-russia-fbi-investigation.html\">financial and other<\/a> connections to a hostile foreign power<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I shared just the first six abominations. Click through for the other eleven. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0514Cartoon\" 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=\"0514Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0514Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to finish as much as I can early, because Wendy is due soon to de-stink the sticky TomCat and help with household tasks.&#160; I&#8217;ll probably publish this shortly after Noon, about four hours from now. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:58 (average 5:02).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/14\/open-thread-5142017\/' 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-27559","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\/27559","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=27559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}