{"id":8799,"date":"2012-09-09T09:06:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T16:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8799"},"modified":"2012-09-09T09:06:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T16:06:28","slug":"open-thread992012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/09\/open-thread992012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;9\/9\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday was not as hot&#160; The temperature in my apartment dropped below 90\u00b0 before midnight, and below 80\u00b0 about an hour ago.&#160; Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; The Denver and Pittsburgh congregations will be in meditation together this evening, and I certainly will be meditating too.&#160; I\u2019m current, however brief, with replies.&#160; Tomorrow appears routine.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:01 (average 5:30).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-09-09-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\/whether-youre-conservative-or-progressive-someone-you-love-is-held-back-by-these\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Whether You&#8217;re Conservative Or Progressive, Someone You Love Is Held Back By These<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kfxUO5Of7Gs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Romney&#8217;s solution is for students burdened with debt to ask their parents for the money.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/09\/09\/us-usa-congress-return-idUSBRE88807K20120909\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>: <\/font>One of the most unpopular and unproductive Congresses in modern history returns on Monday from a five-week recess, facing a crush of big tasks, few of which will likely get done.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers are expected to be in Washington for only about two weeks between now and the November 6 election, making their return to the capital little more than a pit stop.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Is there any question over why nothing will get done?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/09\/09\/bad-economy-blame-it-on-mitch-mcconnell-the-gop.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Beast<\/a>: <\/font>In the realm of political strategy, there are two mindsets on the question of attacking the opponent. One frets excessively about how the opponent will respond and how the media will write it up. The other, more aggressive mindset doesn\u2019t worry too much about those things, on the principle that playing offense is almost always better than playing defense. I raise this with respect to the specific question of whether President Obama is going to make attacks on Republican obstructionism part of his arsenal over the next two months. His advisors seem to think that doing so would make Obama look weak. I emphatically disagree, and I think he\u2019ll be dragged into doing it anyway, as he already was. Let\u2019s review the tape.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I fully agree with this author. Click through for an excellent article.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"9Cartoon\" alt=\"9Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/9Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was not as hot&#160; The temperature in my apartment dropped below 90\u00b0 before midnight, and below 80\u00b0 about an hour ago.&#160; Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; The Denver and Pittsburgh congregations will be in meditation together this evening, and I certainly will be meditating too.&#160; I\u2019m current, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/09\/open-thread992012\/' 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-8799","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\/8799","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=8799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}