{"id":11490,"date":"2015-09-28T14:58:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T18:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=11490"},"modified":"2015-09-28T15:19:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T19:19:52","slug":"kevin-mccarthy-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2015\/09\/28\/kevin-mccarthy-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin McCarthy Angles For A Promotion (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy is so eager to become Speaker, he&#8217;s been making all sorts of <a href=\" http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/09\/27\/politics\/john-boehner-kevin-mccarthy-speakership?sr=nl_pol_092715_houserace&#038;ct=t%28CNNPolitics_com_Nightcap_July_22_20157_22_2015%29\">promises to Republican party extremists:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sounding stubbornly tough&#8217;s a no-brainer<br \/>\nWhen campaigning for Speaker, post-Boehner.<br \/>\nYou must promise to hew<br \/>\nTo each wingnutty view,<br \/>\nAnd from compromise be an abstainer.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the tack that McCarthy has taken.<br \/>\nNo concessions! No deals!  He&#8217;s unshaken!<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll be tough on Obama,<br \/>\nSquash &#8220;squishes&#8221; with drama.<br \/>\nSo if Kev gets that gig, hope&#8217;s forsaken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy is so eager to become Speaker, he&#8217;s been making all sorts of promises to Republican party extremists: Sounding stubbornly tough&#8217;s a no-brainer When campaigning for Speaker, post-Boehner. You must promise to hew To each wingnutty view, And from compromise be an abstainer. That&#8217;s the tack that McCarthy has taken. No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,72,20,36,2627,6,7,3,9,1119],"tags":[394,2419,2769,2929,2243,1663,1177,2784],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490"}],"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=11490"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11508,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490\/revisions\/11508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}