{"id":9732,"date":"2012-12-14T05:33:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T13:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9732"},"modified":"2012-12-14T05:33:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T13:33:14","slug":"open-thread12142012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/14\/open-thread12142012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;12\/14\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m getting so sick of sick.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow, I hope.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:03 (average 5:08).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-12-14-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\/wed-just-like-to-say-ditto-to-everything-jennifer-granholm-says-in-this-clip\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>We&#8217;d Just Like To Say &#8216;Ditto&#8217; To Everything Jennifer Granholm Says In This Clip<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/current.com\/bc\/2028870838001?linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fcurrent.com%2Fshows%2Fthe-war-room%2Fvideos%2Fwatch-part-1-granholm-sounds-off-on-michigan-right-to-work-bill\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" target=\"_blank\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Mathematically, Herr Snyder:Governors::Herr Scalia:Injustices. Republicans are trying to convert the 98% into just another third world country they can exploit with ease.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/14\/opinion\/krugman-the-gops-existential-crisis.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>It\u2019s important to make this point, because I keep seeing articles about the \u201cfiscal cliff\u201d that do, in fact, describe it \u2014 often in the headline \u2014 as a debt crisis. But it isn\u2019t. The U.S. government is having no trouble borrowing to cover its deficit. In fact, its borrowing costs are near historic lows. And even the confrontation over the debt ceiling that looms a few months from now if we do somehow manage to avoid going over the fiscal cliff isn\u2019t really about debt. <\/p>\n<p>No, what we\u2019re having is a political crisis, born of the fact that one of our two great political parties has reached the end of a 30-year road. The modern Republican Party\u2019s grand, radical agenda lies in ruins \u2014 but the party doesn\u2019t know how to deal with that failure, and it retains enough power to do immense damage as it strikes out in frustration. <\/p>\n<p>Before I talk about that reality, a word about the current state of budget \u201cnegotiations.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is another can&#8217;t miss editorial by Paul Krugman. Click through. See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/14\/us\/politics\/bernard-sanders-a-voice-for-shielding-entitlements.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Sanders take on the negotiations<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/49263362#50194325\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">Pope Grover&#8217;s Demonstrates Republican Love<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc9eb00\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param target=\"_blank\" name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=50194325^0^447548&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc9eb00\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=50194325^0^447548&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit NBCNews.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If anyone needs a short leash, it&#8217;s Norquist, with a spiked choke collar. Like the Republican party, he is flailing desperately to stay relevant and failing miserably. But his grotesque characterizations exemplify what Republicans love.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"14Cartoon\" alt=\"14Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/14Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republican Theocons attribute this discovery, without which modern electronics would not be possible, to the devil.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m getting so sick of sick.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow, I hope. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:03 (average 5:08).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From MoveOn: We&#8217;d Just Like To Say &#8216;Ditto&#8217; To Everything Jennifer Granholm Says In This Clip &#160; Mathematically, Herr Snyder:Governors::Herr Scalia:Injustices. Republicans <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/14\/open-thread12142012\/' 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-9732","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\/9732","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=9732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}