{"id":28289,"date":"2017-06-27T12:31:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T19:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28289"},"modified":"2017-06-27T12:31:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T19:31:10","slug":"open-thread-6272017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/27\/open-thread-6272017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/27\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I don&#8217;t know why, but I could not sleep again last night, and between exhaustion and feeling sick of writing about the latest evidence of Republican treason and the latest Republican ploy to kill Granny, I need to make this today&#8217;s only article.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:26 (average 4:34).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-06-27-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=-TGor3JhJ2g\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">The Amazing New Trump Defense | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-TGor3JhJ2g?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think I&#8217;m going to puke! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2017\/6\/25\/1675169\/-To-the-Idiots-who-rejected-Clinton-as-no-different-from-Trump\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>A goodly number of progressives rejected Hillary Clinton on the grounds that she wasn\u2019t good enough for them. Their most common claim was that she is just as bad as Mr. Trump. I have a few questions for them:<\/p>\n<p>Would Hillary Clinton have pulled out of the Paris Climate Accords?<\/p>\n<p>Would Hillary Clinton have greatly accelerated deportations of illegal aliens?<\/p>\n<p>Would Hillary Clinton have attempted to ban Muslims from entering this country?<\/p>\n<p>Would Hillary Clinton have appointed Chelsea Clinton to an important position in the White House?<\/p>\n<p>Would Hillary Clinton have encouraged foreign diplomats to pay inflated prices for her products?<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How foolish, thoughtless and selfish they behaved! Click through. The list is a long one. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/26\/us\/politics\/senate-health-care-bill-republican.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act was edging toward collapse on Monday after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said it would increase the number of people without health insurance by 22 million by 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Two Republicans, Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky, said Monday that they would vote against even debating the health care bill, joining Senator Dean Heller of Nevada, who made the same pledge on Friday. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin hinted that he, too, would probably oppose taking up the bill on a procedural vote expected as early as Tuesday, meaning a collapse could be imminent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s worse to pass a bad bill than pass no bill,\u201d Mr. Paul told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Collins <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorCollins\/status\/879471862694256641\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on Twitter<\/a> on Monday evening that she wanted to work with her colleagues from both parties to fix flaws in the Affordable Care Act, but that the budget office\u2019s report showed that the \u201cSenate bill won\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Heller and Collins are only two. We can&#8217;t depend on Idiot, Son of Idiot, Named after Idiot. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0627Cartoon\" 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=\"0627Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/0627Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why, but I could not sleep again last night, and between exhaustion and feeling sick of writing about the latest evidence of Republican treason and the latest Republican ploy to kill Granny, I need to make this today&#8217;s only article. 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