{"id":15641,"date":"2019-07-30T15:59:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T19:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=15641"},"modified":"2019-09-04T17:22:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T21:22:38","slug":"moscow-mitch-limerick-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2019\/07\/30\/moscow-mitch-limerick-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell Miffed at &#8220;Moscow Mitch&#8221; (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/455265-moscowmitchmctreason-trends-after-mcconnell-defends-blocking-election-bills\">stories<\/a> cry out for a limerick:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hashtag #MoscowMitchMcTreason began trending on Twitter Tuesday morning after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) fired back against the nickname &#8216;Moscow Mitch&#8217; in a fiery speech from the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, a former GOP lawmaker, dubbed McConnell &#8216;Moscow Mitch&#8217; after McConnell on Friday blocked two election security measures.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Mitch McConnell&#8217;s new name makes him twitch<br \/>\nAnd complain; he&#8217;s been dubbed &#8220;Moscow Mitch.&#8221;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m surprised that he&#8217;s peeved<br \/>\nAnd not rather relieved;<br \/>\nTrump&#8217;s received the much worse &#8220;Putin&#8217;s Bitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some stories cry out for a limerick: &#8220;The hashtag #MoscowMitchMcTreason began trending on Twitter Tuesday morning after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) fired back against the nickname &#8216;Moscow Mitch&#8217; in a fiery speech from the Senate floor. &#8220;MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, a former GOP lawmaker, dubbed McConnell &#8216;Moscow Mitch&#8217; after McConnell on Friday blocked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1445,6],"tags":[2897,1620,2889,3630,3631],"class_list":["post-15641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch-mcconnell","category-political-limericks","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-scarborough","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-moscow-mitch","tag-putins-bitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15641","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=15641"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15648,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15641\/revisions\/15648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}