{"id":1806,"date":"2009-10-11T22:33:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T02:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2009-10-11T23:38:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T03:38:13","slug":"country-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/10\/11\/country-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To Party-First Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when you could tell the difference between right-wing loons and your average Republican politician?  Unfortunately, that distinction is rapidly vanishing. And Republican reaction to 1) <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/david-neiwert\/obamas-nobel-makes-wingnut-heads-exp \">Obama&#8217;s Nobel Peace Prize win;<\/a> and 2) Chicago&#8217;s failure to land the Olympics are but two recent examples.<\/p>\n<p>Ode To Party-First Republicans (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>When the Prez wins a prize, wingnuts sneer.<br \/>\nWhen we lose the Olympics, they cheer.<br \/>\n&#8220;Country first,&#8221; they once said.<br \/>\nSeems that sentiment&#8217;s dead.<br \/>\nIf Barack killed bin Laden, they&#8217;d jeer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when you could tell the difference between right-wing loons and your average Republican politician? Unfortunately, that distinction is rapidly vanishing. And Republican reaction to 1) Obama&#8217;s Nobel Peace Prize win; and 2) Chicago&#8217;s failure to land the Olympics are but two recent examples. Ode To Party-First Republicans (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane When the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,72,21,8,20,159,26,6,7,3,9,17,69],"tags":[951,498,950,200,949,397,841],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-george-bush","category-gop-humor","category-hypocrisy-humor","category-media-satire","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-white-house","category-wingnuts","tag-bin-laden","tag-chicago","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-obama","tag-olympics","tag-patriotism-humor","tag-republican-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","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=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}