{"id":8171,"date":"2012-06-27T08:33:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T15:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8171"},"modified":"2012-06-27T08:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T15:34:00","slug":"open-thread6272012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/27\/open-thread6272012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;6\/27\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m getting ready for my trip to the physical therapist.&#160; Getting there involves walking up a steep hill. That usually sets off my COPD, so I am likely to be too pooped to do much when I return.&#160; If I cannot catch up on replies today, I shall tomorrow, which appears to be a routine day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:16 (average 5:13).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-06-27-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; 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\/if-you-dont-think-what-this-black-man-went-through-is-bullsh_t-then-youre-part-of-the-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>If You Don&#8217;t Think What This Black Man Went Through Is Bullsh_t, Then You&#8217;re Part Of The Problem<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a_slzVZ0vQo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Bloomberg&#8217;s version of papers please?&#160; He\u2019s showing his Republican roots.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/27\/us\/house-democrats-up-for-re-election-feel-gun-lobby-pressure-on-contempt-vote.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The National Rifle Association has joined a Republican push to make Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. the first sitting cabinet member to be held in contempt of Congress, turning a once obscure fight over a gun-smuggling investigation into a proxy war over gun control.<\/p>\n<p>Both the N.R.A. and the smaller but more strident Gun Owners of America have made Thursday\u2019s House contempt vote crucial to their ratings of House lawmakers. The N.R.A. is pressing to win Democratic votes, said Wayne LaPierre, the group\u2019s chief executive, and White House officials and House Democratic leaders concede that a handful of Democrats are likely to vote for the contempt resolution. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This issue should have nothing to do with how the NRA rates lawmakers, because it has no bearing on lawmakers&#8217; support for the right to bear arms. But since the NRA pushing the ridiculous Republican &quot;Obama did it to take away your guns&quot; conspiracy theory, they are using definite loss of A rating to blackmail Blue Dogs into voting for contempt or having voters misled regarding their positions on 2nd Amendment rights.&#160; Many will cave-in, because Republicans will win anyway, but Republicans will use their votes under duress to claim that the contempt vote is bipartisan.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-insiders\/post\/between-the-gop-and-hispanic-voters-bad-gets-worse\/2012\/06\/26\/gJQACZf03V_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Republicans are in a trap of our own making. We can&#8217;t acknowledge the obvious, that we will not deport 12 million people, lest we aggravate a vocal part of the GOP base eager to call anything less amnesty. Romney can&#8217;t suddenly appear to be measured or in an Obama-like state of evolution, or he would enhance his negative, pandering stereotype. We can&#8217;t outrun the growing Hispanic American voting bloc by running up the score with white voters. We would reach a point of diminishing return because of all the bad press. So the Republican campaign doesn&#8217;t start from an honest place.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is by Ed Rogers, a conservative Republican commentator. It&#8217;s rare to see such honest evaluation from the right. Kudos!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"27Cartoon\" alt=\"27Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/27Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How different he was from the monster who replaced him.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m getting ready for my trip to the physical therapist.&#160; Getting there involves walking up a steep hill. 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