{"id":9309,"date":"2012-11-02T08:39:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T15:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9309"},"modified":"2012-11-02T08:39:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T15:39:55","slug":"open-thread1122012-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/02\/open-thread1122012-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–11\/2\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m starting early, because I couldn\u2019t sleep, but I know I\u2019ll tire early as well.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow appears routine.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:52 (average 4:55).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Bill Cosby Explains The Sad And Honest Truth About Obama’s First Four Years<\/p>\n

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It is true that, far too often, congressional Democrats reacted in fear of how Republicans were trying to paint them. We need more party discipline. A good starting point would be changing the filibuster rules in the Senate.<\/font><\/p>\n

From USA Today<\/a>: <\/font>He may have discouraged a post-storm presidential visit<\/a> this week, but New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg endorsed President Obama for re-election Thursday.<\/p>\n

His big issue: climate change.<\/p>\n

"We need leadership from the White House \u2014 and over the past four years, President Barack Obama has taken major steps to reduce our carbon consumption, including setting higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks," Bloomberg wrote in a column<\/a> for the Bloomberg News website.<\/p>\n

This is probably the most significant endorsement of the entire campaign.<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>A new Mitt Romney is emerging in the closing days of the campaign, aides say: a man who is increasingly \u201cbeing eaten alive with jealousy\u201d by President Obama\u2019s budding relationship with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. <\/p>\n

While Mr. Romney has told reporters that he is \u201ctotally fine\u201d with Gov. Christie flying around in a helicopter with President Obama, privately he has told aides, \u201cSeeing him with Chris Christie is tearing me apart.\u201d <\/p>\n

Poor Little Lord Willard.  I wonder if he thought it was his turn to be the top?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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I\u2019m starting early, because I couldn\u2019t sleep, but I know I\u2019ll tire early as well.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow appears routine. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:52 (average 4:55).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From MoveOn: Bill Cosby Explains The Sad And Honest Truth About Obama’s First […]<\/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-9309","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\/9309","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=9309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}