{"id":10071,"date":"2014-04-03T22:26:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T02:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=10071"},"modified":"2014-04-03T22:26:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T02:26:11","slug":"mccutcheon-v-fec-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2014\/04\/03\/mccutcheon-v-fec-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Speech Gets Pricey (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Free Speech Gets Pricey (Limerick)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Remember “one person, one vote?”
\nNow “one dollar, one vote’s” what they wrote;
\nYes, the U.S. Supremes
\nFavor money — in reams,
\nAs the rich grab free speech by the throat.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the New Yorker’s John Cassidy, for inspiring this limerick with his acerbic comment about McCutcheon v. FEC<\/a>:<\/p>\n

But Wednesday\u2019s decision, once again a five-to-four ruling, represented another significant step away from the antiquated principle of \u201cone person, one vote\u201d toward the more modern, and utilitarian, notion of \u201cone dollar, one vote.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Free Speech Gets Pricey (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane Remember “one person, one vote?” Now “one dollar, one vote’s” what they wrote; Yes, the U.S. Supremes Favor money — in reams, As the rich grab free speech by the throat. Thanks to the New Yorker’s John Cassidy, for inspiring this limerick with his acerbic comment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,25,23,21,157,66,20,159,10,2,11,6,7,3,9,13,610],"tags":[1097,1091,1087,1092,1088,2783,2474,1090,1093,2472,2815,1089,2473,1246,1680],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10071"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10078,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071\/revisions\/10078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}