{"id":29465,"date":"2017-09-15T13:10:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T20:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29465"},"modified":"2017-09-15T13:10:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T20:10:19","slug":"open-thread-9152017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/15\/open-thread-9152017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/15\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I had a unique experience this morning.&#160; I was doing my research and had the AC off, the window open, and the door cracked for cross ventilation.&#160; I actually felt cold, and by the time I finished, I was shivering.&#160; I LOVED it.&#160; So I took a morning nap and worked on remembering how to snuggle down under the covers.&#160; Of course, the sun hit the wall a half an hour ago, so I had to button up and torn on the AC, but starting Sunday, we have four days of rain forecast, and that brings another dilemma.&#160; Does anyone remember what rain is?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:44 (average 5:33).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-09-15-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=lt67n1UeiO0\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#333333\">It\u2019s Now Dawned on Trump: People Hate Him<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#333333\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lt67n1UeiO0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. You&#8217;re a sphincter. Worse, you are an exact personification of the Republican Party. Number of other reasons: <strong>\u221e<\/strong>. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/14\/us\/politics\/trump-charlottesville-tim-scott.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>President Trump thrust himself back into the racial storms of Charlottesville on Thursday, repeating his charge that those who resisted the neo-Nazis and white supremacists were as much to blame as the alt-right crowds who marched on the Virginia college town.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Despite his desperate attempts to seek attention by feigning bipartisanship, Putin&#8217;s Puppet<\/font> <font color=\"#0000ff\">retains his entropy with his Republican base: fanatical white supremacists. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/9\/14\/1698578\/-House-Republicans-desperate-for-a-legislative-win-to-stave-off-mass-exodus-in-2018\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a> (checked this one): <\/font>Republicans House leaders are facing a grim reality: They have produced basically nothing to please their base and now some of the saner members among their ranks are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2017\/9\/12\/1697837\/-Frenetic-pace-of-GOP-retirements-bodes-well-for-Democrats-and-should-frighten-Republicans\" target=\"_blank\">announcing retirements<\/a> at a frightening clip. TPM&#8217;s Cameron Joseph <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/dc\/house-gop-worries-about-mass-exodus-if-they-cant-get-legislation-moving\" target=\"_blank\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s not much fun to be a House Republican these days. President Trump has repeatedly taken potshots at their conference. Primary challenges burble on the right. Congress has been unable to pass much meaningful legislation in spite of unified control of Washington. Every trip home means an earful both from liberals furious at their support of the president and conservatives irate they\u2019re not doing enough to support his agenda. And members who haven\u2019t seen real competition for years face tough races due to Trump\u2019s deep unpopularity. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a number of people, plenty of whom we don\u2019t even know about yet, who are torn\u201d about running again, said one national GOP strategist involved in House races. \u201cWhether there\u2019s measurable progress on tax reform the next 30 days will be determinative. If we get to November 1st and it looks like tax reform isn\u2019t happening, I think there\u2019ll be a mass exodus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a disaster if it doesn\u2019t happen,\u201d conservative Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) warned, referring to a failure to make meaningful progress on tax reform. \u201cThat has an effect. People like me who are here for the cause, if we see no hope for the cause, which in my case will never happen, that would have a terribly damning effect on our stamina here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As I see it, they are not at all likely to get the victory for their rabid base that they seek. They are too fractured and incompetent to agree among themselves. If they do make a deal with Democrats, they will have to give up so much that their base will consider it a betrayal. This couldn&#8217;t happen to a more evil bunch of assholes! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0915Cartoon\" 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=\"0915Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0915Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a unique experience this morning.&#160; I was doing my research and had the AC off, the window open, and the door cracked for cross ventilation.&#160; I actually felt cold, and by the time I finished, I was shivering.&#160; I LOVED it.&#160; So I took a morning nap and worked on remembering how to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/15\/open-thread-9152017\/' 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-29465","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\/29465","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=29465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}