{"id":7714,"date":"2012-05-09T11:42:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7714"},"modified":"2012-05-09T11:42:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:42:53","slug":"open-thread592012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/09\/open-thread592012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–5\/9\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

While unpacking and storing groceries yesterday, I hurried too much and set off the bursitis in my shoulder, so I’m in a fair amount of pain, and will likely be more curt today than normal.  I\u2019m current on replies.  Tomorrow depends on how I feel.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:48 (average 5:11).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Bet You Didn’t Know How Obamacare Is A Solution To A Law Enacted By Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n

\"9betyoudidntknow\"<\/p>\n

Dang! That Ronnie RayGun sure was a librul<\/em> socialist! Betcha he was from Kenya!<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Richard G. Lugar, one of the Senate\u2019s longest-serving members, a collegial moderate who personified a gentler political era, was turned out of office on Tuesday, ending a career that had spanned the terms of half a dozen presidents.<\/p>\n

r. Lugar, a six-term senator from Indiana who had won most of his recent elections with more than 60 percent of the vote, lost a hard-fought Republican primary to Richard E. Mourdock, the state treasurer. Mr. Mourdock\u2019s campaign was fueled by Tea Party groups and national conservative organizations that deemed Mr. Lugar too willing to compromise and poured millions of dollars into the campaign to defeat him. <\/p>\n

Mourdock defines \u201cbipartisanship\u201d as making Democrats accept Republican positions.  We can beat this creep.<\/font><\/p>\n

From WNCT<\/a>: <\/font>Amendment one passed Tuesday with 61 percent of the vote, legally defining marriage in North Carolina as between one man and one woman, but gay and lesbian couples are still demanding the right to marry.<\/p>\n

Same-sex couples will ask for for marriage licenses in Wilson and Durham Wednesday, the start of a week-long campaign protesting their inability to wed.<\/p>\n

This state amendment violates the 14th Amendment guaranteeing all citizens equal protection under the law.  Although Republicans say this is just democracy in action, their argument is bogus, because we don.t get to vote on each others\u2019 rights.  Imagine, if you will, the Republican response to a hypothetical amendment denying the right to marry to Republican supply-side pseudo-Christians.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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