{"id":8215,"date":"2012-07-01T11:14:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T18:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8215"},"modified":"2012-07-01T11:14:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T18:14:28","slug":"open-thread712012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/01\/open-thread712012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–7\/1\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m running behind today.  Even though I got up early, I had to collect all the data for tomorrow\u2019s monthly report.  I\u2019m current on replies, albeit brief.  Tomorrow appears routine.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:05 (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 Truth About Where Your Tax $ Is Going Will Shock You<\/p>\n

\"1Spendung\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And Republicans think that we should let our poor go hungry and our infrastructure, crumble.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Reuters<\/a>: <\/font>Kansai Electric Power Co on Sunday restarted the 1,180-megawatt No. 3 unit at its Ohi atomic plant, the utility said, Japan’s first nuclear reactor to come back online since the Fukushima crisis, despite public safety concerns.<\/p>\n

That’s even more stupid than drill, baby, drill.<\/font><\/p>\n

From ABC<\/a>: <\/font>A top advisor to President Barack Obama urged Congressional Democrats on Friday to "go on offense" against Republicans on the issue of taxes and argued that the Supreme Court ruling upholding the incumbent’s signature health care law should be the "clear and final" word on the issue.<\/p>\n

In a memo made public by the White House, David Plouffe accused Republicans of "trying to misrepresent" Obama’s record on taxes.<\/p>\n

"We welcome this debate on middle class taxes, and we urge you to seize this opportunity to go on offense to illustrate how the President and Democrats in Congress are standing up for the middle class," Plouffe wrote.<\/p>\n

We must take every opportunity to demonstrate that Republicans govern exclusively for the benefit of millionaires, billionaires and corporate criminals, while Democrats have worked to help the lower and middle classes, in spite of constant Republican obstruction and sabotage.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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I\u2019m running behind today.  Even though I got up early, I had to collect all the data for tomorrow\u2019s monthly report.  I\u2019m current on replies, albeit brief.  Tomorrow appears routine. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:05 (average 4:49).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From MoveOn: The Truth About […]<\/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-8215","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\/8215","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=8215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}