Like most blogs, The Carpetbagger Report will be honoring Thanksgiving today, and posting will be somewhere between minimal and nonexistent. (I’ll be around, and might add an item if something earth shattering happens, otherwise, not so much.)<\/p>\n
Tomorrow should be pretty slow, but I might have a few posts. As for the weekend, Morbo will have some words of wisdom for your reading pleasure on Saturday, and there will be a Sunday Discussion Group.<\/p>\n
Not incidentally, in light of the holiday, I thought I’d also take a moment to extend my sincere thanks to all of you who read the site. I appreciate your interest, support, and encouragement, and I’m grateful that so many of you are willing to peruse my daily tirades.<\/p>\n
Feel free to treat this as an open thread. I’ve added excerpts from a good “what progressive have to be thankful for” list, put together by the fine folks at the Center for American Progress, below the jump. We’re thankful for our country’s troops<\/a>.<\/p>\n We’re thankful America dumped the 109th Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n We’re thankful Rick Santorum will have more free time to find the WMD<\/a>.<\/p>\n We’re thankful we don’t have to go to war with the Secretary of Defense we had<\/a>.<\/p>\n We’re thankful for “red state values,” like protecting reproductive rights<\/a>, supporting stem cell research<\/a>, and rejecting discrimination<\/a>.<\/p>\n We’re thankful Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), who calls climate change the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people<\/a>,” will no longer chair the Senate environmental committee.<\/p>\n We’re thankful that Matt Drudge does not rule our world<\/a>.<\/p>\n We’re thankful Al Gore helped the country face the inconvenient truth<\/a>.<\/p>\n We’re thankful minimum wage ballot initiatives<\/a> passed in six states.<\/p>\n We’re thankful the Dixie Chicks aren’t ready to make nice<\/a>.<\/p>\n We’re thankful Ted Haggard bought the meth but never used it<\/a>.<\/p>\n We’re thankful for “the Google<\/a>” and “the email<\/a>” (and the “series of tubes<\/a>” that make them possible) — but not iPods, which are endangering our nation<\/a>.<\/p>\n We’re thankful Maf54 isn’t online<\/a> right now.<\/p>\n We’re thankful Keith Olbermann’s ratings are up<\/a> and Bill O’Reilly’s ratings are down.<\/p>\n We’re thankful President Bush’s secret plan for Iraq is safe with Conrad Burns<\/a>.<\/p>\n We’re thankful we won’t spend Thanksgiving turkey hunting with Dick Cheney<\/a>.<\/p>\n We’re thankful the “Decider<\/a>” only gets to make the decision 789 more days<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n See you tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like most blogs, The Carpetbagger Report will be honoring Thanksgiving today, and posting will be somewhere between minimal and nonexistent. (I’ll be around, and might add an item if something earth shattering happens, otherwise, not so much.) Tomorrow should be pretty slow, but I might have a few posts. As for the weekend, Morbo will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nHere’s portions of CAP’s list<\/a>:<\/p>\n