{"id":7836,"date":"2012-05-22T12:34:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T19:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7836"},"modified":"2012-05-22T12:34:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T19:34:26","slug":"open-thread5222012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/22\/open-thread5222012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–5\/22\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

I allowed myself to sleep in this morning, as I will be volunteering in prison and won\u2019t get home until late tonight. So this Open Thread is all there is today.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow depends on how wiped out I am after today.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:46 (average 4:45).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>One Really Embarrassing Question For The GOP<\/p>\n

\"22WarPoor\"<\/p>\n

I know how!  Thanks RepubliCorp!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Eclectablog<\/a>: <\/font>It\u2019s not often you see an elected official act like this much of an asshole and to do it such a dickish and public way.<\/p>\n

Ten minutes before the filing deadline to run for the Michigan House of Representatives on Tuesday, Rep. Roy Schmidt, a \u201cDemocrat\u201d from the 76th District in Grand Rapids, switched parties and decided to run as a Republican. This gave the Democratic party no candidate in a very tough district for Democrats after last year\u2019s redistricting.<\/p>\n

It was a cowardly act and seems nearly inexplicable given Schmidt\u2019s own bad-mouthing of Michigan Republicans. It\u2019s particularly dickish given that he had Democrats out knocking doors for him during the previous week.<\/p>\n

Given the level of Republican sleaze here, the Dems should get an extension.  However, in Herr Schneider\u2019s regime, notorious for upending elected governments, that won\u2019t happen.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>In an effort to show a unified front in their campaign against the birth control mandate, 43 Roman Catholic dioceses, schools, social service agencies and other institutions filed lawsuits in 12 federal courts on Monday, challenging the Obama administration\u2019s rule that their employees receive coverage for contraception in their health insurance policies. <\/p>\n

No doubt the GOP is in cahoots with this, as they want to take themselves off front street, given that more people are finally realizing that the Republican War on Women is real.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>: Let us learn from history<\/font><\/p>\n

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I allowed myself to sleep in this morning, as I will be volunteering in prison and won\u2019t get home until late tonight. So this Open Thread is all there is today.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow depends on how wiped out I am after today. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:46 (average 4:45).  To […]<\/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-7836","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\/7836","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=7836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}