{"id":10859,"date":"2015-03-21T17:52:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T21:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=10859"},"modified":"2015-03-21T23:20:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T03:20:35","slug":"political-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2015\/03\/21\/political-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Tidbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Beck just announced that he&#8217;s quitting the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>It seems the GOP isn&#8217;t quite crazy enough for him.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>To prove he really means it this time, Donald Trump is forming a presidential exploratory committee.<\/p>\n<p>Some circuses just can&#8217;t have too many rings.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Dear Rand Paul, I don&#8217;t live in Kentucky,<br \/>\nAnd I think that you&#8217;re far worse than yucky.<br \/>\nWhy&#8217;s your newsletter clogging<br \/>\nMy email and dogging<br \/>\nMy bandwidth with viewpoints so sucky?<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Facts can be pesky<br \/>\nand undermine views.<br \/>\nBut the right just discards them<br \/>\nlike old, worn out shoes.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>In a Playboy interview, Dick Cheney said Obama is &#8220;the worst president of my lifetime&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I could have sworn that title belonged to Cheney.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t I call<br \/>\nthe GOP pols heartless?<br \/>\nI hate redundancy.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Re Matt McLaughlin&#8217;s gays-killing CA ballot initiative, doesn&#8217;t his \u201cSodomite Suppression Act&#8221; deserve a &#8220;Matt McLaughlin Suppression Act?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*****<br \/>\nAlaska Republican Rep. Don Young suggested letting wolves loose to cure the homeless problem. <\/p>\n<p>What a foxy way to angle for a job at Fox News!<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>The duped marks wallow<br \/>\nin hollow crap they swallow<br \/>\nfrom pols they follow.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Conservative commentator Dinesh D\u2019Souza has denounced Hillary Clinton\u2019s \u201clawlessness.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p>But I think D&#8217;Souza is just lonely serving time for violating campaign finance laws.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Sudden clarity<br \/>\nof thought and reason in pols&#8211;<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t a gal dream?<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a &#8220;Right-to-Work&#8221; law, a\/k\/a the &#8220;Right to Destroy Unions by Reaping Benefits Without Paying Dues&#8221; law.<\/p>\n<p>******<\/p>\n<p>GOP hucksters<br \/>\nhock our nation&#8217;s future<br \/>\nto gain\/maintain power.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Beck just announced that he&#8217;s quitting the Republican Party. It seems the GOP isn&#8217;t quite crazy enough for him. ***** To prove he really means it this time, Donald Trump is forming a presidential exploratory committee. Some circuses just can&#8217;t have too many rings. ***** Dear Rand Paul, I don&#8217;t live in Kentucky, And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,2225,16,1550,21,585,640,633,20,68,168,26,154,71,150,6,7,3,2487,1317,9,1528],"tags":[2257,439,2596,2593,2897,278,2846,634,2793,1179,2594,2597,347,2880,2896,2595,412],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859"}],"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=10859"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10915,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859\/revisions\/10915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}