{"id":146,"date":"2007-08-23T15:30:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T19:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/08\/23\/why-i-no-longer-get-excited-when-bush-cronies-quit\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T20:16:00","slug":"why-i-no-longer-get-excited-when-bush-cronies-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/08\/23\/why-i-no-longer-get-excited-when-bush-cronies-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I No Longer Get Excited When Bush Cronies Quit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can we ever get rid of Bush’s spinmeister<\/a> cronies?\u00a0 Apparently not.\u00a0 Sure, they eventually quit.\u00a0 But they stubbornly refuse to stay <\/strong>quit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Remember when Karen<\/a> Hughes<\/a> resigned\u00a0amidst all sorts of hoopla? Well, she stayed away for roughly a nanosecond and she’s currently with the State Department,<\/a> “leading efforts to promote America’s values.”<\/p>\n

And now the dishonorable Ari Fleischer<\/a> has resurfaced and, once again, he’s flacking George Bush’s needless war<\/a>, via the White House front group Freedom’s Watch.<\/a><\/p>\n

I thought I’d celebrate Ari’s comeback with a limerick:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why I No Longer\u00a0Get Excited When\u00a0Bush Cronies Quit
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Bush spinmeisters keep coming back:
\nFirst Karen returned. What a hack!
\nNow Ari is here,
\nSpreading war lies and fear.
\nGuess they don’t really leave; they just pack.<\/p>\n

=========<\/p>\n

And now some links, for your reading (and viewing) pleasure:
\n* The Buzzflash Media Putz of the Week<\/a>
\n* Don Davis’s Bush Explains His ‘Domino’ Theory of Vietnam<\/a>
\n* skippy has lots of fun at Mitt Romney’s expense<\/a>
\n* Norm at OneGoodMove has the Daily Show’s Samantha Bee commenting on Bush’s vacation record<\/a>
\n* Digby on Michael McConnell and retroactive immunity for private companies<\/a>
\n* All Hat No Cattle presents Bush’s History<\/a>
\n* Carnival of Satire<\/a>
\n* Carnival of the Decline of Democracy<\/a>\u00a0[tags]Freedom’s Watch, White House Front Group Bush Spinmeisters, Ari Fleischer, Karen Hughes, Bush Spokesman Humor, Bush Flacks, Bush Cronies[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can we ever get rid of Bush’s spinmeister cronies?\u00a0 Apparently not.\u00a0 Sure, they eventually quit.\u00a0 But they stubbornly refuse to stay quit.\u00a0 Remember when Karen Hughes resigned\u00a0amidst all sorts of hoopla? Well, she stayed away for roughly a nanosecond and she’s currently with the State Department, “leading efforts to promote America’s values.” And now the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[103,38,105,8,20,19,104,6,7,3,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"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=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}