{"id":51100,"date":"2023-03-10T06:55:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=51100"},"modified":"2023-03-09T16:09:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T00:09:34","slug":"open-thread-march-10-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/03\/10\/open-thread-march-10-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread March 10, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I did more work on cartoons. I had planned to get this done earlier, and then stuff happened, so now I&#8217;m kind of on deadline. I finished through the 15th, and, since there was only one more to go (the 29th), I finished it also. I&#8217;m not even going to look at April before next week sometime &#8211; bu it&#8217;s less sressful on me if I get them worked out well in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211; 10 0310Cartoon.jpg<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14879\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/0310Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/0310Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/0310Cartoon-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/politizoom.com\/mcconnell-brandishes-inspirational-letter-from-capitol-police-chief-joins-schumer-in-denouncing-fox-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PolitiZoom &#8211; McConnell Brandishes Inspirational Letter From Capitol Police Chief, Joins Schumer In Denouncing Fox News<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says Tucker Carlson&#8217;s whitewashing of the Capitol insurrection was a \u201cmistake.\u201d &#8220;My concern is how it was a depicted &#8230; Clearly, the chief of the Capitol Police &#8230; correctly describes what most of us witnessed firsthand on January 6th.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/politizoom.com\/mcconnell-brandishes-inspirational-letter-from-capitol-police-chief-joins-schumer-in-denouncing-fox-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for story<\/a>. Obviously this happened before he fell &#8211; and you know at least some MAGAts are going to claim that his fall was retribution for this. I think not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2023\/03\/abortion-top-issue-wisconsin-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooks &amp; Liars &#8211; Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Is About Abortion Rights<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; When the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe vs Wade, the State of Wisconsin immediately reverted to an abortion ban that was passed in 1849. This law is so old and archaic and so poorly written, it is practically unenforceable. It is also all but guaranteed to come before the Wisconsin Supreme Court at some point in time. This naturally makes it the top issue in the upcoming election for an open seat on the state supreme court.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2023\/03\/abortion-top-issue-wisconsin-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for details.<\/a> I don&#8217;t like the idea of electing judges, but it is what it is. Janet Protasiewicz, the progressive, was the top vote getter in an3-way open primary, BUT she received only a plurality, not a majority, and the third place (loser) is throwing support to the second place MAGAt. So this is not only important, but also precarious.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Young.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Young.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Young-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Young-150x144.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Young-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Young-36x36.jpg 36w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I did more work on cartoons. I had planned to get this done earlier, and then stuff happened, so now I&#8217;m kind of on deadline. I finished through the 15th, and, since there was only one more to go (the 29th), I finished it also. I&#8217;m not even going to look at April before <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/03\/10\/open-thread-march-10-2023\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,3762,4268,3844,4395],"class_list":["post-51100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-courts","tag-insurrection","tag-senate","tag-womens-health","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\/51100","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}