{"id":11964,"date":"2016-01-13T17:28:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T21:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=11964"},"modified":"2016-01-13T17:28:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T21:28:10","slug":"gop-donors-waste-money-superpacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2016\/01\/13\/gop-donors-waste-money-superpacs\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Careful What You Ask For (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m amused to see that the rich Republican beneficiaries of ‘Citizens United’<\/a> are rather unhappy<\/a> these days:<\/p>\n

“Major GOP donors and fundraisers are wondering whether they\u2019re wasting their money on super-PACs.”<\/p>\n

“It’s ‘free speech!’ Let us spend to the max!”
\nThe Supreme Court said “yes” to those hacks,
\nTo the GOP guys
\nWho thought this was wise:
\nBuy elections with billionaire PACS.<\/p>\n

Having gotten the ‘right’ they demanded,
\nAny SuperPAC donor who’s candid
\nSays “My giant transmittal
\nOf bucks bought me little!
\nWhat a waste! Why was ‘free speech’ expanded?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m amused to see that the rich Republican beneficiaries of ‘Citizens United’ are rather unhappy these days: “Major GOP donors and fundraisers are wondering whether they\u2019re wasting their money on super-PACs.” “It’s ‘free speech!’ Let us spend to the max!” The Supreme Court said “yes” to those hacks, To the GOP guys Who thought this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,66,20,2,6,7,3,9,17],"tags":[192,2663,1091,194,2783,2662,2757],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11964"}],"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=11964"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11970,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11964\/revisions\/11970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}