{"id":30513,"date":"2017-12-01T12:18:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T20:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30513"},"modified":"2017-12-01T12:18:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T20:18:47","slug":"open-thread-12-1-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/01\/open-thread-12-1-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread -12\/1\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A new month is upon us, and I&#8217;m quite busy.&#160; I swapped out the poll and voted on the new one.&#160; I did today&#8217;s research.&#160; I&#8217;m writing today&#8217;s articles now.&#160; When I&#8217;m done, I&#8217;ll make the graphics and do the research for tomorrow&#8217;s Monthly Report for November.&#160; Then I&#8217;ll publish today&#8217;s articles and do my Care2 stuff.&#160; Somewhere in that mix, I&#8217;ll make and eat lunch.&#160; Finally, I&#8217;ll pop off George and rest.&#160; All along, I&#8217;m listening to the news, waiting for the Reich to explode over Flynn flipping.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:31 (average 5:31).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-12-01-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=nTJgihLovgI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1Z1i5ClfrJhyu9z1hlmDkQ\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos Channel<\/a>): S<\/font>en. Sherrod Brown blasts the GOP Tax cuts<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/nTJgihLovgI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><font color=\"#000000\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Keep calling your Republican Senators. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-last-word\/watch\/fmr-gop-treasury-official-tax-cut-bill-makes-no-sense-1107349571869\" target=\"_blank\">The Last Word<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Fmr. GOP Treasury official: Tax cut bill makes no sense<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bruce Bartlett, who worked in the Reagan Treasury Dept., says Republicans are cutting taxes as if it&#8217;s a game of golf: just trying to get to the lowest number possible without thinking of the impact on the deficit or the middle class. John Heilemann also joins.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_lw_atreasury_171130\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There&#8217;s a simple explanation for this. They haven&#8217;t &quot;done the work&quot;, because they know that the analysis will ever say want they want. It&#8217;s not that people have no jobs. It&#8217;s that those jobs pay too little. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/one-short-video-illustrating-lindsey-grahams-stunning-hypocrisy-on-trump-3d71327aed4c\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>During an interview with CNN on Thursday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was asked if he\u2019s concerned about recent reports that President Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/trump-access-hollywood-sanders-fake-cb03dc74c040\/\" target=\"_blank\">has been privately questioning<\/a> whether a recording of him bragging about groping women is legitimate and that he <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/trumps-belief-in-wild-conspiracy-theories-shows-a-president-out-of-touch-and-in-chaos-07d46d6e8e2a\/\" target=\"_blank\">remains interested in racist conspiracy theories<\/a> about President Obama\u2019s birth certificate.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of answering, Graham tried to turn the tables and attacked the media for reporting about those issues in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know what concerns me about the American press is this endless, endless attempt to label the guy as some kind of kook not fit to be president,\u201d Graham said.<\/p>\n<p>The notion that Trump is \u201csome kind of kook not fit to be president\u201d isn\u2019t merely a media creation, however. Graham himself used those exact same words to criticize Trump during a Fox News interview in February 2016, back when he was supporting Jeb Bush.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Republicans&#8217; mind-blowing hypocrisy in their attempt to attack the media, everyone: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EKfXQGUeiu\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/EKfXQGUeiu<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bubbaprog\/status\/936292921413963776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Lindsey Poo earned his PhD (piled higher and deeper) in Bullshitology. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoons<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1201Cartoon\" 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=\"1201Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1201Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"602\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1201bCartoon\" 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=\"1201bCartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1201bCartoon.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new month is upon us, and I&#8217;m quite busy.&#160; I swapped out the poll and voted on the new one.&#160; I did today&#8217;s research.&#160; I&#8217;m writing today&#8217;s articles now.&#160; When I&#8217;m done, I&#8217;ll make the graphics and do the research for tomorrow&#8217;s Monthly Report for November.&#160; Then I&#8217;ll publish today&#8217;s articles and do my <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/01\/open-thread-12-1-2017\/' 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-30513","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\/30513","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=30513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}