{"id":2390,"date":"2010-01-25T04:47:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T08:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2010-01-25T15:35:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T19:35:53","slug":"weak-kneed-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/01\/25\/weak-kneed-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To Weak-Kneed Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/01\/20\/coakley-loss-lieberman\/\">Massachusetts election debacle,<\/a> I keep naively expecting Democrats to wake up and smell the need to stop acting like patsies.  <\/p>\n<p>Any minute now (I tell myself) Dems under Obama&#8217;s leadership will call a halt to  the futile act of making nice with Republicans (and Blue Dogs) and will start pursuing a truly progressive agenda.<\/p>\n<p>But, alas, Democrats seem to have learned exactly the wrong lesson from losing Ted Kennedy&#8217;s Senate seat to a Republican.  <\/p>\n<p>And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Ode To Weak-Kneed Democrats<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Dear Obama and co are you nuts?<br \/>\nOr did someone abscond with your guts?<br \/>\nIf you act like you&#8217;re weak<br \/>\nAll your power will leak,<br \/>\nHurling Dems out of town on their butts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">********<\/p>\n<p>Some related posts from <a href=\" http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/24\/schultz-gibbs-exchange\/\">Think Progress,<\/a>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2010\/01\/22-7\">Common Dreams,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/susie-madrak\/op-ed-roundup-what-does-it-take-wake\">Susie Madrak,<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2010_01\/022065.php \">Steve Benen.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the Massachusetts election debacle, I keep naively expecting Democrats to wake up and smell the need to stop acting like patsies. Any minute now (I tell myself) Dems under Obama&#8217;s leadership will call a halt to the futile act of making nice with Republicans (and Blue Dogs) and will start pursuing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,72,15,21,89,20,1094,11,1085,26,108,154,6,7,3,1086,12,467,17],"tags":[981,1096,194,851,857,1095],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-campaign-humor","category-congress","category-election-satire","category-filibuster-humor","category-gop-humor","category-leadership-humor","category-legislation","category-martha-coakley","category-media-satire","category-minority-rights-humor","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-scott-brown","category-senate","category-washington","category-white-house","tag-blue-dogs","tag-democratic-leadership","tag-election-humor","tag-legislation-satire","tag-massachusetts","tag-progressive-agenda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","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=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}