{"id":1342,"date":"2009-08-04T01:51:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T05:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2010-03-04T01:35:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T05:35:06","slug":"waterloo-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/08\/04\/waterloo-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterloo Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in July,  South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint bragged about Republican plans to &#8220;break&#8221; Obama.  How?  By killing health care reform, turning health care into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0709\/Health_reform_foes_plan_Obamas_Waterloo.html\">Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Waterloo.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s no surprise that the President&#8217;s foes are wielding the Big Lie in their non-stop efforts to block reform.  Or that their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/blogs\/americandebate\/Flash_Obama_wants_to_kill_your_granny.html\">lies target the elderly,<\/a> scaring them into thinking Democrats intend to mandate elder-euthanasia.<\/p>\n<p>This brings me to my latest limerick, Waterloo Lies:<\/p>\n<p>Waterloo Lies<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The GOP&#8217;s spreading big lies<br \/>\nTo ensure that our health reform dies:<br \/>\n&#8220;The bill will kill gran &#8212;<br \/>\nShorten seniors&#8217; life span.&#8221;<br \/>\nTheir goal? Cut Barack down to size.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong>  Check out the interesting and <a href=\"http:\/\/diseasemanagementcareblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/welcome-to-august-recess-edition-of.html\">informative Health Wonk Review.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Related Posts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/08\/18\/obama-limerick\/\">An Open Limerick To President Obama;<\/a> <a href=\" http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/08\/16\/death-panels\/\">Republicans Were For \u201cDeath Panels\u201d Before They Were Against Them;<\/a> and <a href=\" http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/08\/06\/tantrum-politics\/\">Tantrum Politics<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in July, South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint bragged about Republican plans to &#8220;break&#8221; Obama. How? By killing health care reform, turning health care into Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Waterloo.&#8221; So it&#8217;s no surprise that the President&#8217;s foes are wielding the Big Lie in their non-stop efforts to block reform. Or that their lies target the elderly, scaring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,72,8,20,52,556,820,11,26,6,7,3,9,12,1172,17],"tags":[827,824,826,375,828,822,200,821,702,825,779,823],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342"}],"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=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}