{"id":657,"date":"2010-02-24T03:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=657"},"modified":"2010-02-24T03:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T11:21:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-2242010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/24\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-2242010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 2\/24\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had quite a bit of paperwork to do and some errands to run, but I still stayed up to date on replying to comments and returning visits.&#160; I\u2019ll fall behind again today, because it\u2019s my volunteer day at the former prisoners\u2019 therapy group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>It too me 3:47.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-02-24-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Goldilocks Boehner just <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/02\/23\/boehner-bill-short\/\" target=\"_blank\">can&#8217;t make up his mind<\/a>.&#160; First the HCR bill was too long.&#160; Now it\u2019s too short.<\/p>\n<p>While Main Street languishes, Wall Street is doing fine.&#160; Bankster\u2019s bonuses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/35536606\" target=\"_blank\">rose 17%<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gibbs, the White House has not jumped onto the public option bandwagon, because it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/02\/23\/gibbs-the-public-plan-doe_n_473443.html\" target=\"_blank\">lacks the votes to pass<\/a> in the Senate.&#160; I say put it to a vote.&#160; Let\u2019s see if the DINO\u2019s have the guts to say no on the record in the face of strong support in their states.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: inline\"><a title=\"Cartoon by R.J. Matson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cartoon by R.J. Matson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/100223\/matson.jpg\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><a title=\"See Cartoons by Cartoon by R.J. Matson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/archives\/matson.asp\" target=\"_blank\">See Cartoons by Cartoon by R.J. Matson<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Politicalcartoons.com Cartoon\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalcartoons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Cagle.com\" href=\"http:\/\/cagle.com\/caglecards\/main.asp?image=http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/100223\/matson.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Happy hump day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had quite a bit of paperwork to do and some errands to run, but I still stayed up to date on replying to comments and returning visits.&#160; I\u2019ll fall behind again today, because it\u2019s my volunteer day at the former prisoners\u2019 therapy group. Jig Zone Puzzle: It too me 3:47.&#160; To do it, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/24\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-2242010\/' 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-657","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\/657","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=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}