{"id":1864,"date":"2009-10-29T18:29:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T22:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2009-10-29T18:29:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T22:29:46","slug":"lieberman-health-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/10\/29\/lieberman-health-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"A Limerick For Traitor Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\" http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2009-10-27\/traitor-joe\/?cid=bs:archive7\">Traitor Joe Lieberman<\/a> is back to his old tricks, once again trying to undermine Democrats. So how&#8217;s Joe rewarding Obama and Harry Reid&#8217;s excessive generosity in letting Lieberman caucus with the Dems and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/11\/07\/ode-to-traitor-joe-lieberman\/\">chair the Homeland Security Committee<\/a>? By threatening to help Republicans filibuster health reform over the public option. <\/p>\n<p>Joe Lieberman&#8217;s latest misanthropic behavior reminds me of the single saving grace in <em>Bush v. Gore<\/em>: The election was stolen from Lieberman too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2006\/09\/23\/hello-world\/\">Joe a song parody<\/a>, so now it&#8217;s time for a limerick:<\/p>\n<p>A Limerick For Traitor Joe<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Joe Lieberman&#8217;s meanness runs deep.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s a back-stabbing, Dem-screwing creep,<br \/>\nWho&#8217;s determined to kill<br \/>\nThe health reform bill.<br \/>\nBut at least he will never be VEEP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traitor Joe Lieberman is back to his old tricks, once again trying to undermine Democrats. So how&#8217;s Joe rewarding Obama and Harry Reid&#8217;s excessive generosity in letting Lieberman caucus with the Dems and chair the Homeland Security Committee? By threatening to help Republicans filibuster health reform over the public option. Joe Lieberman&#8217;s latest misanthropic behavior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,89,196,52,556,22,11,154,6,7,3,467],"tags":[372,191,2826,780,228,2765,965,231],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-filibuster-humor","category-harry-reid","category-health-satire","category-insurance-humor","category-joe-lieberman","category-legislation","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-washington","tag-bush-v-gore","tag-filibuster","tag-harry-reid","tag-health-reform","tag-homeland-security","tag-joe-lieberman","tag-public-option","tag-traitors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","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=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1883,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/1883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}