{"id":913,"date":"2010-03-20T04:46:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T11:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=913"},"modified":"2010-03-20T04:46:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T11:46:33","slug":"open-thread-3202010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/20\/open-thread-3202010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 3\/20\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I played catch-up.  I replied to all the outstanding comments and returned visits to those who had posted them.  I also visited the first half of our blogroll.  I expect to stay up to date through Monday, but next week, you may see very little of me.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:54.  I was at a disadvantage.  It\u2019s a dawg<\/em>. :-(  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From LA Times<\/a>: <\/font>The nation’s largest association of doctors [AMA] and the AARP senior citizens’ lobby are endorsing President Barack Obama’s revised health overhaul legislation.<\/p>\n

I think this may be a done deal it the House, but frar the Senate process.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Hoping to assuage progressive Democrats who remain disappointed with the content of the health care reform bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) committed on Friday to holding a separate vote on a public option in the coming months. <\/p>\n

In a letter to two of his more progressive colleagues in the Senate — Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Bernie Sanders of Vermont — the Nevada Democrat implicitly apologized for his inability to get a government-run insurance plan into the final piece of health care legislation and promised to keep working to get the policy into law.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s great if it\u2019s a reconciliation vote.  But if it\u2019s the standard 60 votes to pass, it would be better to change the filibuster on the first day of the session next January and then vote on it.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), a far right lawmaker who has led much of the opposition to health reform, took to the floor of the House of Representatives last night to deliver a diatribe against health reform. Previously, Broun had compared President Obama to a dictator who would impose martial law. But last night, Broun out-performed his reactionary colleagues and even his own track record of absurdity. Bellowing into the microphone, Broun said that \u201cif ObamaCare passes,\u201d a \u201cfree insurance card\u201d (which is not in the bill) will be \u201cas worthless as a Confederate dollar after the \u201cGreat War of Yankee Aggression\u201c.<\/p>\n

No wonder the GOP can\u2019t fathom that elections have consequences.  These fools haven\u2019t even come to terms with the consequences of the Civil War!  Not only that, but wasn\u2019t that \u2018Yankee Aggression\u2019 the GOP policy at the time?<\/font><\/p>\n

From Crooks and Liars<\/a>: This is hilarious!<\/font><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve ever heard truth from either of them!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Whatcha doing this weekend?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I played catch-up.  I replied to all the outstanding comments and returned visits to those who had posted them.  I also visited the first half of our blogroll.  I expect to stay up to date through Monday, but next week, you may see very little of me. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:54.  […]<\/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-913","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\/913","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=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}