{"id":226,"date":"2008-06-13T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T04:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/06\/13\/ode-to-mccainiac-recession-deniers\/"},"modified":"2008-06-13T00:14:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T04:14:02","slug":"ode-to-mccainiac-recession-deniers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/06\/13\/ode-to-mccainiac-recession-deniers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To McCainiac Recession-Deniers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can barely type (Damn you, broken wrist!) but\u00a0 feel compelled to mock <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/06\/09\/mccain-hassett-recession\/\">McCainiac recession-deniers, like Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute.<\/a> Apparently, reports of the soaring cost of daily necessities and other bad economic news are \u201cpolitically motivated pessimism\u201d meant to boost Obama&#8217;s candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>Ode To McCainiac Recession-Deniers (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Behold the recession-denier!<br \/>\nAs inflation and job loss surge higher,<br \/>\nHe will stubbornly claim<br \/>\nLib&#8217;ral press is to blame<br \/>\nFor making us think things are dire.[tags]Economy Satire, Election Humor, Campaign Poem, McCainiac, Recession Deniers, Inflation Limerick, Job Loss, Liberal Press, Kevin Hassett, American Enterprise Institute[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can barely type (Damn you, broken wrist!) but\u00a0 feel compelled to mock McCainiac recession-deniers, like Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute. Apparently, reports of the soaring cost of daily necessities and other bad economic news are \u201cpolitically motivated pessimism\u201d meant to boost Obama&#8217;s candidacy. Ode To McCainiac Recession-Deniers (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,72,44,21,40,6,7,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-campaign-humor","category-economy-humor","category-election-satire","category-john-mccain","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","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=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}