{"id":1894,"date":"2009-11-05T17:11:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T21:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2011-03-31T01:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T05:33:00","slug":"palin-scozzafava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/11\/05\/palin-scozzafava\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Sarah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of my fellow New Yorkers, I want to thank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/2009\/11\/03\/2009-11-03_dem_bill_owens_in_lead_in_23rd_district_after_sarah_palin_and_rush_limbaugh_supp.html\">Sarah Palin<\/a> for her generous gift to the State of New York.   Palin&#8217;s leadership in driving moderates like Dede Scozzafava out of the Republican party handed New York Democrats a Congressional Seat (District 23) that had eluded Dems for well over a century.   <\/p>\n<p>Thanks also to Dick Armey for his help in electing Democrat Bill Owens. (I understand Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman has a big, wet kiss for <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/05\/armey-hoffman-bus\/ \">Dick Armey too.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s time for a limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating Sarah<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Dear Sarah, your meddling is great.<br \/>\nI just love what you did to my state.<br \/>\nYour GOP purge<br \/>\nWill make Democrats surge<br \/>\nAs you spread anti-moderates hate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of my fellow New Yorkers, I want to thank Sarah Palin for her generous gift to the State of New York. Palin&#8217;s leadership in driving moderates like Dede Scozzafava out of the Republican party handed New York Democrats a Congressional Seat (District 23) that had eluded Dems for well over a century. Thanks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,20,14,156,154,6,7,3,1551,9,176,69],"tags":[975,701,977,974,229,973,976,282,978,702,2820],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894"}],"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=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4786,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions\/4786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}