{"id":1855,"date":"2009-10-20T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2009-10-20T16:32:59","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T20:32:59","slug":"bystander-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/10\/20\/bystander-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Bystander President?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent comments by <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/09\/29\/rockefeller-disappointed-obama-didnt-push-harder-for-public-option\/\">Sen. Jay Rockefeller<\/a> and others indicate<br \/>\nthat a strong public option could become a reality, if only President Obama stopped being a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkleft.com\/story\/2009\/10\/20\/84020\/598\">Bystander President<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bystander President? (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Public option&#8217;s at stake &#8212; tock, tick, tock.<br \/>\nPlease step up to the plate, Dear Barack.<br \/>\nThough the sidelines were cool<br \/>\nFor a while, you&#8217;re a fool<br \/>\nIf you fail to ensure it&#8217;s a lock.<\/p>\n<p><em>Related Posts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/09\/03\/judd-gregg-limerick\/\">Ode To Senator Judd \u201cMajority Rules, Except When It Doesn\u2019t\u201d Gregg;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/08\/18\/obama-limerick\/\">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> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/08\/06\/tantrum-politics\/\">Tantrum Politics;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/08\/04\/waterloo-lies\/ \">Waterloo Lies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent comments by Sen. Jay Rockefeller and others indicate that a strong public option could become a reality, if only President Obama stopped being a Bystander President. Bystander President? (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane Public option&#8217;s at stake &#8212; tock, tick, tock. Please step up to the plate, Dear Barack. Though the sidelines were cool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,52,11,154,6,7,3,17],"tags":[830,966,851,348,965],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-health-satire","category-legislation","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-white-house","tag-health-care-reform","tag-jay-rockefeller","tag-legislation-satire","tag-obama-verse","tag-public-option"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","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=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1863,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}