{"id":50,"date":"2009-09-23T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2009-09-23T01:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T09:57:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-september-23-2009d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/23\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-september-23-2009d\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 September 23, 2009D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll be scarce today because I\u2019ll be helping in a therapy group.&#160; Please don\u2019t feel ignored if I don\u2019t get your comments answered in a timely manner or make it to your blogs.<\/p>\n<p>Did you see Tom Delay on Dancing with the Stars?&#160; If only that creep were as clumsy in court as he is on the dance floor, his dance partner would be his cellmate.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s&#160; an interesting blurb from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2009\/09\/yeah_we_call_it_the_public_option.php\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Yesterday in Richmond, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) reminded us how hollow Republicans can sound addressing real people with real problems. When a woman told the story of an uninsured friend stricken with cancer, Cantor <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/09\/cantor-to-constituent-with-sick-relative-seek-charity.php\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#000000\">suggested<\/font><\/a><font color=\"#000000\"> she seek out &quot;an existing government program&quot; (presumably the ones Republicans haven&#8217;t succeeded in eliminating yet), a charity, or one of the &quot;hospitals here who do provide charity care.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s like the GOP plan for the homeless.&#160; They will help if you send them a stamped, self addressed envelope.&#160; And the GOP plan for the jobless is they\u2019ll help if you send them a request on your company letterhead.&#160; The only plan that woman\u2019s poor friend can seek out is the GOP plan for the critically ill, the Social Security death benefit.<\/p>\n<p>I completed today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle in in 5:24.&#160; To try it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2009\/09\/yeah_we_call_it_the_public_option.php\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to sound off!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll be scarce today because I\u2019ll be helping in a therapy group.&#160; Please don\u2019t feel ignored if I don\u2019t get your comments answered in a timely manner or make it to your blogs. Did you see Tom Delay on Dancing with the Stars?&#160; If only that creep were as clumsy in court as he is <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/23\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-september-23-2009d\/' 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-35-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","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=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}