{"id":33935,"date":"2018-10-06T12:42:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T19:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33935"},"modified":"2018-10-06T12:42:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T19:42:55","slug":"open-thread-10-6-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/06\/open-thread-10-6-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/6\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s another chilly day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 I&#8217;m feeling very depressed, because Pervert Kava-Nazi will be confirmed shortly after this is published, or shortly thereafter, and I thought we were going to stop him.\u00a0 Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.\u00a0 My Broncos are visiting the Jets, and it will be televised here.\u00a0 May the Orb shine it&#8217;s holy light on your team, unless they are planes.\u00a0 Tomorrow is also a WWWendy day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:40 (average 5:00).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-10-06-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u7sOzDmVB0w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Brett Kavanaugh Vote Will Drive Political Backlash If History Is Guide (25 min.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/u7sOzDmVB0w?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Rachel&#8217;s mouth to God&#8217;s ear! Pervert Kava-Nazi&#8217;s decisions will drive backlash for a years. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Also from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b4UTW9_1VoQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b4UTW9_1VoQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Lawrence: \u2018The Senate Is An Unfixable Crime Against Democracy\u2019<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/b4UTW9_1VoQ?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">He is so right. I wish I knew how to fix it.\u00a0 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2018\/10\/5\/1801914\/-Vision-in-cowardice-Manchin-announces-final-support-for-Kavanaugh-cementing-his-confirmation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/span>Just after Maine Sen. Susan Collins spent 50 minutes on the Senate floor rolling out the twisted logic of her support for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin finally decided he had enough <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sen_JoeManchin\/status\/1048300503099170817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cover to announce<\/a> he would help push Kavanaugh\u2019s nomination over the edge.<\/p>\n<p>His support was full of useless caveats, like having \u201creservations\u201d about Kavanaugh\u2019s \u201ctemperament\u201d and the \u201cserious accusations\u201d against him. \u201cI do hope,\u201d Manchin said, Kavanaugh won\u2019t let his self-professed partisanship \u201cfollow him onto the court.\u201d Gee, that\u2019s reassuring. But here\u2019s the most craven defense of his decision, concerning the pre-existing conditions coverage for West Virginians that Kavanaugh may well shred thanks to his position on the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I think I disagree.\u00a0 You all know that the only reason I ever support Manchin [DINO-WV] is that even the worst DINO is better than the best Republican, because the DINO counts towards having a Senate majority. That said, I want to give Manchin the benefit of the doubt here. He could choose an easy reelection by voting yes or a knife fight by voting no. After Collins announced, it was a done deal with or without Manchin&#8217;s vote. I think he would vote no, if it mattered. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1006Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another chilly day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 I&#8217;m feeling very depressed, because Pervert Kava-Nazi will be confirmed shortly after this is published, or shortly thereafter, and I thought we were going to stop him.\u00a0 Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.\u00a0 My Broncos are visiting the Jets, and it <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/06\/open-thread-10-6-2018\/' 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-33935","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\/33935","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=33935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}