{"id":28250,"date":"2017-06-24T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28250"},"modified":"2017-06-24T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T20:16:00","slug":"open-thread-6242017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/24\/open-thread-6242017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/24\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here in Portland it reached 91\u00b0 yesterday.&#160; 96\u00b0 is forecast for today.&#160; Even with AC, it&#8217;s oppressive, and I&#8217;m spending as much time as I can at rest.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:32 (average 4:42).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-06-24-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=fYgWvgbnsTw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">What if Trump Actually Fires Mueller? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/fYgWvgbnsTw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If average US citizens spent half as much time every day making themselves politically aware, as they do sitting on the toilet, the US would be a shining example of progressive governance. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-last-word\" target=\"_blank\">The Last Word<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Paul Ryan&#8217;s challenger: Ryan not listening, Trump untrustworthy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin ironworker Randy Bryce will challenge Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan for re-election in 2018. If Bryce wins, it would be the third time since 1862 that a Speaker of the House has lost re-election. Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell talks to Randy Bryce<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_lw_debryce_170622\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Randy Bryce. I&#8217;m not holding my breath, but I&#8217;d love it, if Bryce dumped Lyin&#8217; Ryan.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/23\/us\/politics\/health-care-bill-senate.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Senator Dean Heller of Nevada, perhaps the most vulnerable Republican facing re-election in 2018, said Friday that he would not support the Senate health care overhaul as written, dealing a serious blow to his party\u2019s attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act just days before a showdown vote.<\/p>\n<p>Using remarkably harsh language, Mr. Heller, who is seen as a pivotal swing vote, denounced the Senate-drafted bill in terms that Democrats swiftly seized on. He said the measure would deprive millions of health care and do nothing to lower insurance premiums.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot support a piece of legislation that takes insurance away from tens of millions of Americans,\u201d he said at a news conference in Las Vegas, standing next to Nevada\u2019s Republican governor, Brian Sandoval, who accepted federal funding under the Affordable Care Act to expand Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Heller, knows his career is over, if he votes for it, but he&#8217;s just one. Counting on Cruz, Paul, and Lee to oppose it would be crazy.&#160; We need three Republicans to reject it or it will pass. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0624Cartoon\" 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=\"0624Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/0624Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in Portland it reached 91\u00b0 yesterday.&#160; 96\u00b0 is forecast for today.&#160; Even with AC, it&#8217;s oppressive, and I&#8217;m spending as much time as I can at rest. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 2:32 (average 4:42).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (GQ Channel): What if Trump <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/24\/open-thread-6242017\/' 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-28250","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\/28250","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=28250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}