{"id":114,"date":"2007-05-22T19:57:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T23:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/05\/22\/if-this-is-true-my-head-may-explode\/"},"modified":"2007-05-23T02:46:19","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T06:46:19","slug":"if-this-is-true-my-head-may-explode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/05\/22\/if-this-is-true-my-head-may-explode\/","title":{"rendered":"If This Is True, My Head May Explode (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everybody’s reporting that the Democrats have dropped withdrawal dates from the Iraq war funding bill.<\/a>\u00a0 If this is really true, Rachel Maddow<\/a> says she’ll go insane, and so will I:<\/p>\n

Democrats, Heal Thy Selves! (Limerick)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

The Dems disappoint once again,
\nCaving in to Dub’s warmong’ring yen.
\nTimeline’s gone from the bill.
\nChecks on Bush?\u00a0 Nothing! Nil!
\nBush says, “Heel!” and the Dems reply, “When?”<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> If you’re mad at Congress too, you can\u00a0 Take the Iraq Vote Pledge here<\/a>, and it will be sent to your representatives. It reads:<\/p>\n

I pledge to vote against every Senator and Representative who approves funding to continue the disastrous Iraq War.<\/p>\n

We have already given far too much of our blood and treasure – and killed far too many Iraqis – for a war based on lies. We are now occupying a hostile nation divided by civil war for the benefit of military contractors and Big Oil.<\/p>\n

The only way to support our troops is to bring them home NOW, and no funds should be used for any other purpose. If Congress fails to bring our troops home, I will do everything I can – and urge everyone I know – to defeat pro-war Senators and Representatives, both in my party’s primary elections and in the November general election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[tags]Iraq War Spending Bill, Iraq Timeline, Withdrawal Dates, Democrats, Warmongering, Rachel Maddow, President Bush[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everybody’s reporting that the Democrats have dropped withdrawal dates from the Iraq war funding bill.\u00a0 If this is really true, Rachel Maddow says she’ll go insane, and so will I: Democrats, Heal Thy Selves! (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane The Dems disappoint once again, Caving in to Dub’s warmong’ring yen. Timeline’s gone from the bill. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,81,38,8,14,19,11,6,7,3,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-democrats-satire","category-foreign-policy","category-george-bush","category-house","category-iraq-war","category-legislation","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-senate","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","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=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}