{"id":2186,"date":"2009-12-05T18:47:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T22:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2009-12-05T18:47:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T22:47:07","slug":"lieberman-filibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/12\/05\/lieberman-filibuster\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No-Man&#8221; Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to health care reform, Joe Lieberman is acting like a petulant baby:  &#8220;Wah, wah, wah!  Dump the public option, or I filibuster.  So there!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know whether Lieberman&#8217;s doing this because he&#8217;s owned by insurance companies or because he wants to punish Democrats.  But it&#8217;s clearly <strong>not <\/strong>out of conviction.  Otherwise,  he could surely keep his rationale straight: Joe&#8217;s up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2009_12\/021311.php\">seven nonsensical reasons<\/a> &#8230; and counting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No-Man&#8221; Joe (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Public option&#8217;s no good,&#8221; asserts Joe.<br \/>\n&#8220;Want my health reform vote?  It must go.&#8221;<br \/>\nBut his stated objections<br \/>\nKeep changing directions.<br \/>\nJoe&#8217;s mantra on health? &#8220;Just say no!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Related Posts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/10\/29\/lieberman-health-reform\/\">A Limerick For Traitor Joe;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2006\/09\/23\/hello-world\/\">The Ballad Of Joementum Joe Lieberman.<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to health care reform, Joe Lieberman is acting like a petulant baby: &#8220;Wah, wah, wah! Dump the public option, or I filibuster. So there!&#8221; I don&#8217;t know whether Lieberman&#8217;s doing this because he&#8217;s owned by insurance companies or because he wants to punish Democrats. But it&#8217;s clearly not out of conviction. Otherwise, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89,52,556,22,11,6,7,3],"tags":[2791,780,828,2765],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186"}],"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=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}