{"id":33622,"date":"2018-09-06T13:27:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T20:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33622"},"modified":"2018-09-06T13:27:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T20:27:24","slug":"open-thread-9-6-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/06\/open-thread-9-6-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 9\/6\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Portland broke another all time record for most 90\u00b0+ days in one summer.  We have a chance to do it again today.  It’s a high holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, The Night of the Blessed Return.  It’s the Bird-shit Bonanza game as the Falcons and Eagles fly for holy light.  May the Ellipsoid Orb bless your team.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today’s took me 3:26 (average 5:41).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>A Democratic senator called into question on Wednesday Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh\u2019s testimony a dozen years ago that he knew nothing about two disputed episodes from the George W. Bush era: Republicans\u2019 infiltration of computer files belonging to Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats<\/a> and a warrantless surveillance program<\/a> created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n

The senator, Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, cited emails that have not been made public in raising the issue during Judge Kavanaugh\u2019s Supreme Court nomination hearing. Mr. Leahy was referring to Judge Kavanaugh\u2019s testimony about the Bush-era disputes as an appeals court nominee during hearings in 2004<\/a> and in 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the time, Judge Kavanaugh told the Senate he knew nothing about either episode until they became public knowledge. But Mr. Leahy said that Bush White House emails provided to the Judiciary Committee for Judge Kavanaugh\u2019s Supreme Court nomination \u2014 most of which were deemed \u201ccommittee confidential,\u201d meaning he cannot make them public \u2014 raise \u201cserious questions\u201d about the \u201ctruthfulness\u201d<\/a> of Judge Kavanaugh\u2019s statements to the Senate back then.<\/p>\n

Judge Kavanaugh, in turn, said his prior testimony had been \u201c100 percent accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The conflict was difficult to parse because most of the documents cited by Mr. Leahy remained hidden from public view.<\/p>\n

If you watched the hearing like I did, it was cleat that Kava Nazi was caught red handed.  That is an impeachable offense! RESIST<\/strong>!! VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh once questioned whether Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion rights ruling, was \u201csettled law of the land\u201d during his time in the George W. Bush administration, The New York Times reported Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n

According to a trove of documents, deemed \u201ccommittee confidential\u201d and not released to the public, which were shared with the Times on Wednesday evening, Kavanaugh made the comment in a March 2003 email when he was working as a White House lawyer. The email was part of grouping of records given to the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this week ahead of Kavanaugh\u2019s confirmation hearing.<\/p>\n

Kavanaugh was editing a document that was written by supporters of a conservative judge nominee, and these supporters hoped that anti-abortion women would sign off on the opinion piece, per the New York Times. The document suggested that \u201clegal scholars across the board\u201d accept that \u201cRoe v. Wade and its progeny are the settled law of the land.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perjury! RESIST<\/strong>!! VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Donald J. Trump obtained an advance copy of Bob Woodward\u2019s new book<\/a> Monday evening and was \u201cfurious\u201d to discover that Woodward had written it at a seventh-grade reading level, a White House aide has confirmed.<\/p>\n

The aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Trump was convinced that Woodward wrote the book for seventh-grade readers to make its assertions impossible for Trump to refute.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump was turning page after page, becoming increasingly angry at its gratuitous use of a seventh-grade vocabulary,\u201d the aide said. \u201cIt was like it was written entirely in a secret code.\u201d<\/p>\n

At one point, Trump became so frustrated trying to decipher the word \u201cimbecilic\u201d that he hurled the book across the room.<\/p>\n

Dang Andy. He’ll need a 7th Grader to read it to him. In the interest of morality, you better make it a male. RESIST<\/strong>!! VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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