{"id":9827,"date":"2013-01-08T02:48:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T10:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9827"},"modified":"2013-01-08T02:48:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T10:48:07","slug":"open-thread182013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/08\/open-thread182013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;1\/8\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m still down, and it\u2019s particularly frustrating today, because it\u2019s a prison volunteer day, and I have to stay home.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Maybe tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:54 (average 4:47).&#160; To do it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-01-08-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\/just-when-you-thought-sexism-was-on-the-way-out-2012-happened\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Just When You Thought Sexism Was On The Way Out, 2012 Happened<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Py5X_biBOYk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The best way must be to end the Republican War on Women by sending the Republican Party the way of the Whigs. Here&#8217;s the link to <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missrepresentation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">MissRepresentation<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\">. (This is the first \u2018Daily Share\u2019 I have received in many days.)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/08\/opinion\/brooks-why-hagel-was-picked.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Chuck Hagel has been nominated to supervise the beginning of this generation-long process of defense cutbacks. If a Democratic president is going to slash defense, he probably wants a Republican at the Pentagon to give him political cover, and he probably wants a decorated war hero to boot. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ed Schultz, Joe Sestak and Richard Wolfe agree.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc35787\" 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\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=50392275^0^755856&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc35787\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=50392275^0^755856&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\">Since Bought Bitch Mitch, McConJob, and Lindsey Poo all have their panties in a bunch, it must be good for America. While there are times that I have disagreed and will disagree with Hagel. I think Obama made a good choice here.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2013\/01\/04\/1176367\/-America-Now-Has-a-Three-Major-Political-Parties\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>We are seeing a measurable fracture, a two-part breakage to the Republican Party. This results from infiltration of the GOP based on contributions from the same families and sources of money that financed the John Birch Society from the beginning. Birchers in the House are pursuing JBS goals and recycling JBS slogans.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Birch Society, not the populist Tea Party from 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Effectively, based on &quot;Fiscal Cliff&quot; votes and the changeover to 2013, we have three distinct caucuses in the House of Representatives:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Regular Democrats (now 201 Members)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Business Republicans (84 Members)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Birch Society Republicans (150 Members)<\/p>\n<p>Birchers are anti-government, anti-immigration, anti-compromise, and opposed to taxes in all forms and appearances. The Bircher billionaires&#8217; agenda is not the mainstream Republican businessmen&#8217;s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The Koch family helped found the John Birch Society. They have financed Birchers since 1984 and remain the prime backers for these Bircher Republicans. They assure that JBS ideological slogans and xenophobic paranoia define Bircher campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have long said that the top-down Birchers were the original source for top-down Teabuggery, because of the many absurd conspiracy theories and propensity for Koch sucking they have in common.<\/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=\"8Cartoon\" alt=\"8Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/8Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The following day the Republican Party declared war on the war on poverty.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m still down, and it\u2019s particularly frustrating today, because it\u2019s a prison volunteer day, and I have to stay home.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Maybe tomorrow. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:54 (average 4:47).&#160; To do it click here.&#160; How did you do? 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