{"id":7184,"date":"2012-02-18T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7184"},"modified":"2012-02-18T00:00:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T08:00:48","slug":"open-thread2182012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/18\/open-thread2182012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–2\/18\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I clearly needed to rest, and except for cleaning out my email, paying bill, and the normal hours I spend in research I rested, sleeping longer than usual in the afternoon.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Today I may have an errand to run.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>: <\/font><\/p>\n

Today it took me 3:19 (average 5:08).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>The Best Quote From Barack Obama We’ve Seen This Week<\/p>\n

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The Republican project to transfer wealth from the poor and middle classes to the 1% IS class warfare. This is another example of Republican projection.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Congress passed a $150 billion economic package<\/a> Friday, extending for the rest of the year a payroll tax holiday for 160 million workers and unemployment benefits for millions of others.<\/p>\n

On a 293-132 vote, a bipartisan House coalition supported the compromise plan to keep giving workers a small amount of extra cash with each paycheck while also providing a continued cushion for the unemployed.Shortly afterward, the Senate voted 60 to 36 to approve the plan. It now goes to President Obama to be signed into law, giving him a victory on a portion of the massive jobs bill he presented to Congress last fall. <\/p>\n

Score a big one for the good guys!<\/font><\/p>\n

From LA Times<\/a>: <\/font>Pat Buchanan has been dismissed by MSNBC, the left-leaning news network, four months after the channel suspended him.<\/p>\n

In an angry post on his blog, conservative commentator Buchanan took his critics to task, writing, "After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant clamor from the left that to permit me continued access to the microphones of MSNBC would be an outrage against decency, and dangerous."<\/p>\n

Buchanan says the calls for his firing began with the publication in October of his book "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?" about America’s decline, which critics have called racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic.<\/p>\n

Buchanan was fired because he made racist comments on air, while plugging his white-power book on MSNBC time.  Good riddance to bad Bircher rubbish.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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