{"id":27901,"date":"2017-06-03T13:48:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T20:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27901"},"modified":"2017-06-03T13:48:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T20:48:12","slug":"open-thread-632017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/03\/open-thread-632017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/3\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today I&#8217;m catching up on video articles, and I&#8217;m still working on the new poll and the Monthly report.&#160; If you are in our fantasy football league and have not done so, please let me know if you are playing: Dusty, Jack, Pam, Rob, Robb, and Seth.&#160; Patty Monster, Squatch, Vivian, and I have committed.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:22 (average 5:17).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-06-03-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>White House weighing attempt to block Comey testimony<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The President is consider whether to try and stop former FBI Director James Comey from testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week by invoking executive privilege. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_hayes_ASwalwellComey_170602\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I don&#8217;t think he can win on executive privilege, after all his bragging and threats, but it will proclaim his guilt again, if he tries. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2017\/6\/2\/1668210\/-Trump-orders-agencies-to-ignore-information-requests-from-Democrats\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Asking then FBI director James Comey to flat-out drop the investigation might be the most obvious attempt by Donald Trump to obstruct the Trump\u2013Russia investigation. But it\u2019s far from the only move he\u2019s made to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/06\/02\/federal-agencies-oversight-requests-democrats-white-house-239034\" target=\"_blank\">block the truth from coming out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The White House is telling federal agencies to blow off Democratic lawmakers&#8217; oversight requests, as Republicans fear the information could be weaponized against President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>At meetings with top officials for various government departments this spring, Uttam Dhillon, a White House lawyer, told agencies not to cooperate with such requests from Democrats, according to Republican sources inside and outside the administration.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Even more obstruction of Justice. RESIST!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/03\/us\/democrats-universal-health-care-single-payer-party.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>For years, Republicans savaged Democrats for supporting the Affordable Care Act, branding the law \u2014 with some rhetorical license \u2014 as a government takeover of health care.<\/p>\n<p>Now, cast out of power in Washington and most state capitals, Democrats and activist leaders seeking political redemption have embraced an unlikely-seeming cause: an actual government takeover of health care.<\/p>\n<p>At rallies and in town hall meetings, and in a collection of blue-state legislatures, liberal Democrats have pressed lawmakers, with growing impatience, to support the creation of a single-payer system, in which the state or federal government would supplant private health insurance with a program of public coverage. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/03\/us\/california-today-your-responses-on-a-state-single-payer-system.html\" target=\"_blank\">in California on Thursday<\/a>, the Democrat-controlled State Senate approved a preliminary plan for enacting single-payer system, the first serious attempt to do so there since then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, vetoed legislation in 2006 and 2008.<\/p>\n<p>With Republicans in full control of the federal government, there is no prospect that Democrats can put in place a policy of government-guaranteed medicine on the national level in the near future. And fiscal and logistical obstacles may be insurmountable even in solidly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/18\/us\/california-strikes-a-bold-pose-as-vanguard-of-the-resistance.html\" target=\"_blank\">liberal states like California<\/a> and New York.<\/p>\n<p>Yet as Democrats regroup from their 2016 defeat, leaders say the party has plainly shifted well to the left on the issue, setting the stage for a larger battle over the health care system in next year\u2019s congressional elections and the 2020 presidential race.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s about time! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0603Cartoon\" 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=\"0603Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/0603Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I miss him even more than I thought I would<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m catching up on video articles, and I&#8217;m still working on the new poll and the Monthly report.&#160; If you are in our fantasy football league and have not done so, please let me know if you are playing: Dusty, Jack, Pam, Rob, Robb, and Seth.&#160; Patty Monster, Squatch, Vivian, and I have committed. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/03\/open-thread-632017\/' 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-27901","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\/27901","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=27901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}