{"id":9998,"date":"2013-02-19T04:04:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T12:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9998"},"modified":"2013-02-19T04:04:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T12:04:47","slug":"open-thread2192013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/19\/open-thread2192013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;2\/19\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday my COPD was much better, but I still could not get the sleep I needed.&#160; I missed most of my daytime sleep listening to issues for a former prisoner, and watching the special and two wrong numbers messed up my evening sleep.&#160; I still have this and one other article for you.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; I should be back to normal tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:07 (average 4:32).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-02-19-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\/jon-stewart-paraphrases-marco-rubio-medicare-helps-my-mom-but-f-_-_-k-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Jon Stewart Paraphrases Marco Rubio: &#8216;Medicare Helps MY Mom, But F _ _ k You&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #000000; width: 520px\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:423818\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"512\" target=\"_blank\"><\/iframe>      <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; padding-top: 4px\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/wed-february-13-2013\/water-for-elephant\">The Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/a><\/b>         <br \/>Get More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/full-episodes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Political Humor &amp; Satire Blog<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thedailyshow\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Show on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Where was the cheese when he turned water into whine? It&#8217;s also interesting to note that he is one of the people he describes as &quot;takers&quot;.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/02\/19\/justice\/connecticut-newtown-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>: <\/font>The shooting spree at Sandy Hook Elementary School may have been motivated by a desire by Adam Lanza to outdo Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian man who killed 77 people in July 2011, law enforcement sources told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-18563_162-57569958\/newtown-shooter-motivated-by-norway-massacre-sources-say\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBS Evening News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And if you remember, Breivik had Koch Brothers<\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"> financing and support to establish Tea Party in Norway, so Lanza was copying a Teabagger.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/02\/17\/abc-confronts-paul-ryan-for-praising-sequester-before-using-it-to-slam-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>ABC News host Jonathan Karl on Sunday suggested that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) was guilty of hypocrisy because he slammed President Barack Obama for the automatic spending cuts in the so-called sequester \u2014 even though congressman had personally praised it in the past. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t forget it was the president who proposed the sequester, it\u2019s the president who designed the sequester,\u201d Ryan told Karl, adding that he had concluded that Congress was not going to be able to avoid the automatic cuts because Democrats refused to accept Republicans\u2019 proposal for \u201csmarter cuts in other area of government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongressman, I\u2019ve heard you say this, and this has been a talking point for Republicans for a long time,\u201d Karl interrupted. \u201cBut let\u2019s look at your own words, what you said right after the law putting this in place was passed in August of 2011. <a href=\"http:\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.com\/_news\/2013\/02\/14\/16961543-we-got-that-in-law?lite\" target=\"_blank\">These are your words<\/a>. You said, \u2018What conservatives like me have been fighting for for years are statutory caps on spending, literally legal caps in law that says government agencies cannot spend over a set amount of money and if they breach that amount across the board sequester comes in to cut that spending. You can\u2019t turn it out without a supermajority. 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