{"id":7863,"date":"2012-05-28T09:20:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T16:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7863"},"modified":"2012-05-28T09:20:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T16:20:17","slug":"open-thread5282012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/28\/open-thread5282012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–5\/28\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m still pretty worn out, but I do have a Memorial Day message in addition to today\u2019s Open Thread.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow depends on the day.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:51 (average 4:49).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>The Secrets That Gay Kids Live With Every Day<\/p>\n

\"28gay\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Just more victims of the GOP Wars on __________.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Until now the attack of the fiscal phonies has been mainly a national rather than a state issue, with Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, as the prime example. As regular readers of this column know, Mr. Ryan has somehow acquired a reputation as a stern fiscal hawk despite offering budget proposals that, far from being focused on deficit reduction, are mainly about cutting taxes for the rich while slashing aid to the poor and unlucky. In fact, once you strip out Mr. Ryan\u2019s \u201cmagic asterisks\u201d \u2014 claims that he will somehow increase revenues and cut spending in ways that he refuses to specify \u2014 what you\u2019re left with are plans that would increase, not reduce, federal debt. <\/p>\n

The same can be said of Mitt Romney, who claims that he will balance the budget but whose actual proposals consist mainly of huge tax cuts (for corporations and the wealthy, of course) plus a promise not to cut defense spending.<\/p>\n

Click through for the rest of this excellent Paul Krugman article.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Politico<\/a>: <\/font>A member of the National Labor Relations Board<\/a> has resigned amid allegations he leaked information about the agency to a former Mitt Romney campaign advisor, according to a report.<\/p>\n

Terence Flynn \u2014 a Republican appointed by President Barack Obama in January to the board \u2014 submitted his resignation letter on May 26, Reuters reported<\/a> on Sunday. NLRB inspector general reports this year accused Flynn of revealing non-public information about the board while he served as its top lawyer, and found that he allegedly leaked draft reports and memos to former Romney campaign advisor Peter Schaumber.<\/p>\n

Republicans have a strict code about obeying the rules they insist all others follow. They don’t.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"28Cartoon\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m still pretty worn out, but I do have a Memorial Day message in addition to today\u2019s Open Thread.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow depends on the day. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:51 (average 4:49).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From MoveOn: The Secrets That Gay Kids […]<\/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-7863","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\/7863","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=7863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}