{"id":36102,"date":"2019-04-03T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36102"},"modified":"2019-04-03T10:00:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T17:00:29","slug":"open-thread-4-3-3019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/03\/open-thread-4-3-3019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/3\/3019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">it&#8217;s another busy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Store to Door will deliver my groceries late this morning, and I&#8217;ll have to unpack and put them away.&nbsp; WWWendy comes this evening to de-stink the rancid TomCat.&nbsp; We have lots of chores to do.&nbsp; Poor Wendy just had another death in her family, a niece (not the one that fills in for her taking care of me).&nbsp; Please remember her and her family in your thoughts, wishes, and\/or prayers.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:26 (average 5:46).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-04-03-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; 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=IkVRe1liXR0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Donald Trump Appears To Be Changing His Mind On Mueller Report Release<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/IkVRe1liXR0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Could it be that the Fuhrer bought Barr&#8217;s BS, until Barr tipped him off that it really is BS? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/437102-house-panel-votes-to-subpoena-mueller-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hill<\/a>: <\/font>The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to authorize a subpoena to compel the Justice Department to hand over special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s full report to Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The committee voted 24-17 along party lines to approve a resolution authorizing subpoenas for Mueller\u2019s report, including accompanying exhibits and other attachments, as well as its underlying evidence, at a business meeting Wednesday morning. The resolution also authorizes the committee&#8217;s Democratic chairman to subpoena testimony related to the special counsel&#8217;s report.  <\/p>\n<p>House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said he would give Attorney General William Barr time to produce the final, unredacted report to Congress before issuing the subpoena, however he did not provide a timeline on when that would happen.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday would be a good time to issue the subpoena to Barf Bag Barr [R-Trump&#8217;s Ass]. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/kill-the-electoral-college-stack-the-supreme-court\/2019\/03\/31\/f83d0486-4ff0-11e9-a3f7-78b7525a8d5f_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Pete Buttigieg wants to abolish the electoral college. Sen. Elizabeth Warren hopes to ban gerrymandering. Sen. Cory Booker talks about limiting terms for Supreme Court justices. Beto O\u2019Rourke is weighing an expansion of the high court.  <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2018\/politics\/2020-presidential-hopefuls\/?tid=a_inl_auto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Democratic presidential hopefuls<\/a>, prodded by a frustrated base, are pushing fundamental changes to the American political system. Aimed at changing how presidents are chosen and laws are passed, the proposals go beyond typical campaign issues such as health care and taxes to challenge the basic rules of American democracy.  <\/p>\n<p>Many of those ideas face long odds against enactment. But the conversation speaks volumes about the state of the Democratic Party in the age of Trump, reflecting a sentiment in the party that the system has stopped working fairly \u2014 a grievance once voiced more often by conservatives, including President Trump.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">These are all good ideas, and they should be discussed, but they are long term goals that many voters will see as pie in the sky. Without ignoring those issues, we need to put kitchen table issues in the front seat. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0403Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s another busy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Store to Door will deliver my groceries late this morning, and I&#8217;ll have to unpack and put them away.&nbsp; WWWendy comes this evening to de-stink the rancid TomCat.&nbsp; We have lots of chores to do.&nbsp; Poor Wendy just had another death in her family, a niece (not <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/03\/open-thread-4-3-3019\/' 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-36102","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\/36102","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=36102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}