{"id":16927,"date":"2023-01-05T19:48:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T23:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=16927"},"modified":"2023-01-07T12:57:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T16:57:59","slug":"mccarthy-mockery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2023\/01\/05\/mccarthy-mockery\/","title":{"rendered":"More McCarthy Mockery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/politicalwire.com\/2023\/01\/05\/matt-gaetz-sets-the-conditions-for-kevin-mccarthy\/\">WP&#8217;s Robert Costa<\/a>, Matt Gaetz says McCarthy must either &#8220;withdraw from the race,&#8221; or commit to a &#8220;straitjacket&#8221; agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come to think of it, straitjackets sound like a great idea for most of the House Republicans! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*****<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As self-centered loons<br \/>impede race to be Speaker,<br \/>insanity reigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*****<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This haiku, I swear,<br \/>is my last McCarthy verse<br \/>until tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*****<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Way too many pols<br \/>in Republican Party<br \/>naught but Pied Pipers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*****<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Concession-Kevin&#8221;<br \/>becomes just-pretend Speaker.<br \/>Pyrrhic victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*****<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to WP&#8217;s Robert Costa, Matt Gaetz says McCarthy must either &#8220;withdraw from the race,&#8221; or commit to a &#8220;straitjacket&#8221; agreement. Come to think of it, straitjackets sound like a great idea for most of the House Republicans! ***** As self-centered loonsimpede race to be Speaker,insanity reigns. ***** This haiku, I swear,is my last McCarthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,20,14,2627,5,71,6,9],"tags":[2214,701,500,3333,2763,3887,3295,394,2419,2929,3870,1508,789,702,731,3523],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16927"}],"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=16927"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16939,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16927\/revisions\/16939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}