{"id":7772,"date":"2012-05-15T09:48:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T16:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7772"},"modified":"2016-11-13T14:07:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T22:07:43","slug":"open-thread5152012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/15\/open-thread5152012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;5\/15\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday was even hotter, and I&rsquo;m wrung out.&nbsp; Today should be cooler, but the heat from the last three days is still radiating from my walls.&nbsp; I did manage to research a couple articles, and I should be able to sleep tonight and put them together tomorrow. I&rsquo;m current with replies.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&rsquo;s took me 4:58 (average 5:13).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-05-15-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/front.moveon.org\/the%2D1%2Dreason%2Dbarack%2Dobama%2Dis%2Ddifferent%2Dfrom%2Dmitt%2Dromney\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>The #1 Reason Barack Obama Is Different From Mitt Romney<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"15WomensRights\" border=\"0\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/15WomensRights.jpg\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"15WomensRights\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A woman voting for Romney is the functional equivalent of Smokey the Bear voting for fire.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZMndjLIQUFw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>Romney Economics: Bankruptcy and Bailouts at GST Steel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZMndjLIQUFw?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If elected, Romney will do to America what he did to GST Steel.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/15\/opinion\/not-too-late-to-curb-the-filibuster.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Fed up and rueful, Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, made a startling admission on Thursday: he should have reined in the filibuster rule last year, when he had a chance. As Republicans engaged in yet another of their endless filibusters on what should have been a routine matter &mdash; reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank &mdash; Mr. Reid took to the floor and praised two senators for being right last year when he was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Udall of New Mexico and Jeff Merkley of Oregon were prophetic in wanting to change Senate rules, he said. &ldquo;The rest of us were wrong, or most of us, anyway,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;What a shame.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Since 2007, Democrats have been forced to try to break Republican filibusters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/pagelayout\/reference\/cloture_motions\/clotureCounts.htm\" target=\"_blank\">360 times<\/a> &mdash; by far the highest rate in Congressional history. Ending them requires Democrats to get over a 60-vote hurdle. If Mr. Reid helped enact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/03\/opinion\/03mon1.html\" target=\"_blank\">the proposal of the two senators<\/a>, he would instantly make Congress more efficient and more democratic.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Do ya think so Harry!&nbsp; Scheesch!!&nbsp; Stupid ASSHOLE!&nbsp; Every progressive in the country screamed and screamed when Harry Reid, the Nevada Leg Hound, humped Republican legs, whined, rolled over, and played dead in return for a Republican promise that they would play nice from then on.&nbsp; Ha!! Assuming that Democrats hold the Senate, we need to pick a new Majority Leader and nuke the filibastards on the first day of the new term in January 2013!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">deleted at image owners request.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was even hotter, and I&rsquo;m wrung out.&nbsp; Today should be cooler, but the heat from the last three days is still radiating from my walls.&nbsp; I did manage to research a couple articles, and I should be able to sleep tonight and put them together tomorrow. I&rsquo;m current with replies. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&rsquo;s <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/15\/open-thread5152012\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","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\/7772","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=7772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}