{"id":49196,"date":"2022-09-14T06:53:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T13:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=49196"},"modified":"2022-09-13T17:46:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T00:46:21","slug":"open-thread-september-14-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/09\/14\/open-thread-september-14-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 14, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Lindsey Graham introduced a bill in the Senate to ban abortion at the federal level. This irritates me… but it doesn’t alarm me, because if they really wanted to pass it, they would wait until they have a majority in both houses, and some of them think that is going to be soon. This is political theater. And it is more likely to backfire than not. Also I need to give you all an update on James. the amputation has happened (he didn’t say anything about the process, so I’m going with “No news is good news.”) He is already confident that he made the right choice. Now the recovery begins.\u00a0 Incidentally, I have an appointment myself today – just for an annual checkup.\u00a0 Oh, and one other thing – the candidate running against Boebert is Adam Frisch<\/a>.\u00a0 I’m not hopefull of beating Buck or Lamborn, bothe of whom are well established, but I think Boebert might be beatable.\u00a0 If you check Adam out, let us know what you think.<\/p>\n

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Short Takes –<\/p>\n

Robert Reich – Who will bear the pain?<\/a>
\nQuote – Get ready. The war on inflation is about to get ugly…. Who will bear this pain? Not corporate executives. Not Wall Street. Not big investors. Not the upper-middle class. The draftees into the war on inflation will be \u2014 already are \u2014 lower-wage workers. As the economy cools due to interest rate hikes, they will be first to be fired as the economy plunges and the last to be hired. The Fed is obsessing about a \u201cwage-price\u201d spiral \u2014 wage gains pushing up prices \u2014 when it should be worried about a profit-price spiral.
\nClick through for full article<\/a>. All of this could be avoided if we used a different benchmark for the economy than the stock market. Usng the stock market is a little bit like doctors using the health of peole’s genitals as an indicator of their overall health. Not really representative.<\/p>\n

AP News – Ken Starr, whose probe led to Clinton impeachment, dies<\/a>
\nQuote – Ken Starr, a former federal appellate judge and a prominent attorney whose criminal investigation of Bill Clinton led to the president\u2019s impeachment and put Starr at the center of one of the country\u2019s most polarizing debates of the 1990s, has died at age 76, his family said Tuesday. Starr died at a hospital Tuesday of complications from surgery, according to his former colleague, attorney Mark Lanier. He said Starr had been hospitalized in an intensive care unit in Houston for about four months.
\nClick through for full obit.<\/a> Please don’t dance in the streets. It’s tacky. And if you have any Republican neighbors you could be putting yourself in harm’s way.<\/p>\n

Food For Thought<\/p>\n

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