{"id":9766,"date":"2012-12-22T04:14:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T12:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9766"},"modified":"2012-12-22T04:14:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T12:14:17","slug":"open-thread12222012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/22\/open-thread12222012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–12\/22\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I\u2019m on a very light schedule, but I do have one additional article for you.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow I have a month\u2019s grocery delivery coming, and I\u2019ll be hard presses to just get it put away.  It\u2019s also a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  My Broncos\u2019 meditation with the Browns will not be televised here.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 5:20 (average 6:03).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Media Matters<\/a>: <\/font>Misinformer Of The Year: Rush Limbaugh <\/p>\n

"Slut." "Prostitute." <\/p>\n

These words defined<\/a> Rush Limbaugh in 2012 after he smeared Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student who testified before Congress about women’s health care. Limbaugh’s misogynistic attack, which spanned three days of his radio show, did incalculable, long-term damage<\/a> not only to Limbaugh’s brand, but also to the right-wing talk-radio format<\/a> he helped to build and the conservative movement he has shaped for decades.<\/p>\n

Limbaugh’s attacks on Fluke led to a paradigm shift in talk radio, as advertisers reassessed their support for inflammatory hosts. Limbaugh’s toxic rhetoric helped shine a glaring spotlight on the broader conservative movement’s policies toward women, focusing public attention on the radical right-wing effort to dismantle reproductive rights and the social safety net.<\/p>\n

They could not have picked a more deserving recipient than Limbarf, the de facto head of the Republican Party.<\/font><\/p>\n

From <\/font>MSNBC<\/a>: Wreckage of the GOP<\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Bought Bitch Mitch could not be more wrong. It’s Congress’ job to legislate, not the President’s. In my opinion, Obama has offered the Republicans far more than they have a right to expect. America’s problem is strictly a Republican problem.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>House Republicans let the five-year farm bill expire<\/a> at the end of September without a new law to replace the massive measure covering billions of dollars in programs, including food stamps and agriculture subsidies. The Senate passed<\/a> its own bipartisan, 10-year farm bill in June, and House Democrats and farm state Republicans attempted to force the House to consider a bill to replace it. But the GOP leadership steadfastly refused<\/a> to vote on it. <\/p>\n

As a result, milk prices could jump as high as $6 to $8 per gallon<\/a> after Jan. 1, when the government will revert to following antiquated 1949 regulations without a farm bill in place.<\/p>\n

Because they have declared war on America, may congressional Republicans find a lump of coal in their stockings, and may those stockings be in boots, and may those boots be buried deep between their nether cheeks.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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