{"id":3048,"date":"2010-10-08T02:57:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T09:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2010-10-08T02:57:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T09:57:31","slug":"open-thread-1082010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/08\/open-thread-1082010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 10\/8\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was able to get a little sleep, so I\u2019m back.  I won\u2019t be replying to comments or returning visits today, because I have to do something special.  More on that tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today it took me 4:16.  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Today was a victory for the Affordable Care Act. The first court decision to render a verdict on the constitutionality of the landmark health reform package upheld a key portion of law. Earlier today, Judge George Caram Steeh of the Eastern District of Michigan handed down a twenty page order dismissing a challenge to the Act\u2019s minimum coverage provision on the merits.<\/p>\n

Good News here, as expected.<\/font><\/p>\n

From TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Lieberman’s approval rating stands at only 31%, with 57% disapproval — even lower than the 36%-54% for Sen. Chris Dodd, who is retiring. Broken down by party, Lieberman’s rating is 20%-69% among Democrats, 46%-41% among Republicans, and 31%-56% among independents.<\/p>\n

LIEberman\u2019s political career will be done in two years, six years too late.<\/font><\/p>\n

H\/T Crooks and Liars<\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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To borrow a term from baseball, too many Democrats have two strikes and no balls.  Thank God for a few like Grayson.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>: from Cagle.com<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

\"8matson\" <\/font><\/p>\n

TGIF!  VOTE!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was able to get a little sleep, so I\u2019m back.  I won\u2019t be replying to comments or returning visits today, because I have to do something special.  More on that tomorrow. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 4:16.  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From Think Progress: Today […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-35-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048","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=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}