{"id":35472,"date":"2019-01-27T10:49:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T18:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35472"},"modified":"2019-01-27T10:49:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T18:49:27","slug":"open-thread-1-27-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/27\/open-thread-1-27-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/27\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox&#160; I overslept.&#160; WWWendy is in the community kitchen preparing beef stroganoff.&#160; That&#8217;s almost good enough to give up eating <em>dawgs<\/em>.&#160; This is today&#8217;s only article.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 5:04 (average 7:00).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-01-27-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=Sld27PfAF3M\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Tucker Carlson Cold Open<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Sld27PfAF3M\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kate McKinnon is amazing.&#160; The real Republicans are far more pathetic than the cast, and not as funny. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2019\/01\/26\/state-union-tuesday-government-reopening-pelosi\/2688484002\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a>: <\/font>Despite President Donald Trump ending the government shutdown, his State of the Union address is still up in the air. <\/p>\n<p>One thing is for sure, however: It&#8217;s not going to take place on Tuesday as originally planned. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#8217;s not happening on 1\/29,&quot; said Drew Hammill, a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. <\/p>\n<p>After a series of bitter letters back-and-forth, Pelosi postponed Trump&#8217;s Jan. 29 address due to the longest shutdown in U.S. history , citing, among other things, security concerns as those tasked with the high-profile event were not being paid.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Woooo Hoooo Nancy! No TV for poor Widdle Donnie sphincter! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/26\/us\/politics\/government-shutdown-legislation.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Was this the shutdown to end all shutdowns?<\/p>\n<p>The answer could be yes. The toll exacted on government operations and federal employees by the record 35-day stalemate \u2014 not to mention the political costs to those in the White House and on Capitol Hill \u2014 was so punishing that it is giving momentum to a longstanding call to prohibit the government disruptions that have become a regular facet of Washington hardball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShutting down the government should be as off limits in budget negotiations as chemical warfare is in real warfare,\u201d Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He was not alone in expressing those sentiments. Members of both parties said it was past time to enact legislation that would essentially mean the government would remain open at existing spending levels when an impasse such as the fight over the border wall was reached, rather than shuttering parts or all of the government. That\u2019s an outcome that virtually everyone agrees is costly, unnecessary and even embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Unlike the Republican hypocrites, responsible for all the shutdowns, Democrats have pushed this for over a decade. I support the idea. Republicans would still oppose it, if their sphincters were not so sore. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0127Cartoon\" 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=\"0127Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/0127Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I wonder why the two perverts aren&#8217;t sitting together.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox&#160; I overslept.&#160; WWWendy is in the community kitchen preparing beef stroganoff.&#160; That&#8217;s almost good enough to give up eating dawgs.&#160; This is today&#8217;s only article. 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