{"id":907,"date":"2010-03-19T02:06:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T09:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=907"},"modified":"2010-03-19T02:06:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T09:06:51","slug":"open-thread-3192010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/19\/open-thread-3192010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 3\/19\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I pulled a dumb move.  I forgot to check my Oxygen before I left for pulmonary boot camp.  It ran out right after Lady Torquemada (She\u2019s really a sweetheart, and I tease her without mercy.) put me through my paces.  In completing my errands, I walked over a mile without oxygen and by the time I returned home, I was fried.  So my backlog of comments is still waiting and will be answered today.  I hope to put a dent in visiting as well, because I have a hellacious week coming up next week.  I had something special planned for today\u2019s lead article, but it\u2019s not available yet.  If it becomes so, I shall add a third post.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:28.  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From The Washington Independent<\/a>: <\/font>CBO estimates that enacting both the Senate-passed health reform bill and the reconciliation bill (which contains the fixes to the Senate proposal) would cut the federal deficit by $138 billion over the next decade.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, Republicans continue to parrot the lie that the bill costs too much.  Michael Steele, referring to the CBO report, said, \u201cIt\u2019s a lie.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

From TPM<\/a>: <\/font>A few hours after Rep. Dennis Kucinich switched his support to become a critical vote for the health care bill, he took to the House floor to ask wavering colleagues to join him. Astonished colleagues pointed to Kucinich (D-OH) darting from member to member on the House floor yesterday, saying privately they’d never seen him get so involved in whipping a vote.<\/p>\n

Go, Dennis, Go!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Fox News host Glenn Beck on his radio show this morning \u2014 said the timing of the vote is unholy. He warned that Democrats intend to \u201ctake away the liberty that we have right from God\u201d on \u201cthe Sabbath, during Lent.\u201d Beck agreed, calling the Sunday vote an \u201caffront to God,\u201d and something \u201cour founders would have never\u201d done \u201c[o]ut of respect for God\u201d.<\/p>\n

If the Faux Noise<\/em> goose steppers in the House object so much, they should honor their convictions and not attend. \ud83d\ude00<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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TGIF!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I pulled a dumb move.  I forgot to check my Oxygen before I left for pulmonary boot camp.  It ran out right after Lady Torquemada (She\u2019s really a sweetheart, and I tease her without mercy.) put me through my paces.  In completing my errands, I walked over a mile without oxygen and by the […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-35-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","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=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}