{"id":2478,"date":"2010-02-15T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2010-02-15T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T22:26:08","slug":"evan-bayh-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/02\/15\/evan-bayh-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Bayh, Buh Bye!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Evan Bayh (Pretend-Dem-Indiana) has announced that he won&#8217;t seek reelection this year. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2010_02\/022412.php\">conserva-Dem&#8217;s<\/a> stated reason?  <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/thefix\/senate\/evan-bayh-to-retire.html\">Partisan gridlock is blocking progress.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While this is being viewed as a <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/senator-evan-bayh-indiana-seek-reelection-announce-retirement\/story?id=9841970\">huge loss for Democrats<\/a> and a great pick-up op for Republicans, I sure won&#8217;t miss Blue Dog Bayh.  His so-called moderation and his unrelenting push for compromise with uncompromising Republicans has been a large impediment to passing progressive legislation. <\/p>\n<p>And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Senator Bayh, Buh Bye!<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Bayh will not run again. Why?<br \/>\nCuz there&#8217;s &#8220;not enough progress.&#8221; How wry!<br \/>\nHe says partisanship<br \/>\nIs the cause. Here&#8217;s a tip:<br \/>\nOur problem is DINOS like Bayh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Evan Bayh (Pretend-Dem-Indiana) has announced that he won&#8217;t seek reelection this year. The conserva-Dem&#8217;s stated reason? Partisan gridlock is blocking progress. While this is being viewed as a huge loss for Democrats and a great pick-up op for Republicans, I sure won&#8217;t miss Blue Dog Bayh. His so-called moderation and his unrelenting push for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1128,81,21,1129,11,1135,154,6,7,3,12,467],"tags":[981,1131,1132,194,1130,1133,1136,1137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478"}],"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=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}