{"id":10079,"date":"2014-04-07T16:41:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T20:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=10079"},"modified":"2014-04-07T16:56:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T20:56:37","slug":"mccutcheon-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2014\/04\/07\/mccutcheon-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Weep For The Wealthy (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weep For The Wealthy (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Though the wealthy will publicly cheer<br \/>\nAs campaign regs get knocked on their rear,<br \/>\nSome privately groan:<br \/>\n&#8220;No limits?&#8221; they moan.<br \/>\n&#8220;Buying pols is becoming too dear!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Note from Mad Kane:  Although I concocted that quote, it may be closer to the truth than you think.  Here&#8217;s The Weekly Standard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/04\/06\/gingrich-donation-limits_n_5100976.html?utm_hp_ref=politics\">Bill Kristol,<\/a> who argued on ABC&#8217;s This Week &#8220;that not every wealthy donor will embrace the outcome of the McCutcheon case, because they may now be obliged to give more:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;All the donors I know hate this decision, of course,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This used to be a very good excuse to say to a candidate, ooh, I&#8217;m maxing out, I just can&#8217;t help your campaign.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weep For The Wealthy (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane Though the wealthy will publicly cheer As campaign regs get knocked on their rear, Some privately groan: &#8220;No limits?&#8221; they moan. &#8220;Buying pols is becoming too dear!&#8221; Note from Mad Kane: Although I concocted that quote, it may be closer to the truth than you think. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,72,25,23,21,157,66,20,159,10,2,11,1188,519,6,7,3,9,13],"tags":[1642,2818,1097,1091,1087,1092,1088,2783,1093,2472,729,1644,1089,1252],"class_list":["post-10079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-kristol","category-campaign-humor","category-constitution-humor","category-democracy-humor","category-election-satire","category-fec-satire","category-free-speech","category-gop-humor","category-hypocrisy-humor","category-judiciary","category-law","category-legislation","category-money-and-finance-humor","category-newt-gingrich-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-supreme-court","tag-abc","tag-bill-kristol","tag-campaign-finance-reform","tag-citizens-united","tag-corporate-personhood","tag-democracy","tag-first-amendment","tag-free-speech","tag-legal-verse","tag-mccutcheon-v-fec","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-this-week","tag-us-supreme-court","tag-weekly-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=10079"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10093,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079\/revisions\/10093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}