{"id":111,"date":"2007-05-11T15:37:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T19:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/05\/11\/ode-to-the-lame-gop-gang-of-eleven\/"},"modified":"2007-05-12T03:08:41","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T07:08:41","slug":"ode-to-the-lame-gop-gang-of-eleven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/05\/11\/ode-to-the-lame-gop-gang-of-eleven\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To The Lame GOP Gang Of Eleven (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please forgive me for not being all that impressed with the Republican Gang of Eleven, who supposedly hammered\u00a0 George Bush about Iraq and had\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/05\/09\/iraq-meeting\/\">the \u201cmost unvarnished conversation they\u2019ve ever had with the president.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2007\/05\/09\/11-gop-congressmen-to-bush-youve-lost-credibility\/\">Tim Russert&#8217;s breathless reports about this so-called\u00a0 &#8220;defining pivotal moment\u201d<\/a> in the Iraq debate (and his media echo chamber) merely enable these eleven endangered Republicans to dupe their\u00a0constituents into believing that they&#8217;re finally doing something about the war in Iraq.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/05\/11\/11-members-vote-bush\/\">All eleven voted with the President on the Iraq war spending bill and the redeployment bill<\/a>\u00a0that came before Congress this week. So woopdidoo!\u00a0 And a limerick too:<\/p>\n<p>Ode To the Lame GOP Gang Of Eleven<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Eleven Republicans bray:<br \/>\n&#8220;We told Dubya what&#8217;s what &#8212; had our say.<br \/>\nWe critiqued Bush&#8217;s war<br \/>\nAnd we gave him what-for.&#8221;<br \/>\nThen they all vote the President&#8217;s way.\u00a0 [tags]Iraq War, President Bush, Republicans Humor, Media Echo Chamber, Unvarnished Conversation, Defining Pivotal Moment, Gang Of Eleven, GOP, Tim Russert[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please forgive me for not being all that impressed with the Republican Gang of Eleven, who supposedly hammered\u00a0 George Bush about Iraq and had\u00a0 the \u201cmost unvarnished conversation they\u2019ve ever had with the president.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0And Tim Russert&#8217;s breathless reports about this so-called\u00a0 &#8220;defining pivotal moment\u201d in the Iraq debate (and his media echo chamber) merely enable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,38,8,20,14,19,26,7,3,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"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=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}