{"id":250,"date":"2008-09-30T18:09:17","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T22:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/09\/30\/an-ode-to-crybaby-republicans\/"},"modified":"2008-12-20T02:36:30","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T06:36:30","slug":"an-ode-to-crybaby-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/09\/30\/an-ode-to-crybaby-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ode To Crybaby Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s editorial page thinks <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122273257698488295.html?mod=todays_us_opinion\">Republicans are crybabies about the bailout bill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>House Republicans share the blame, and not only because they opposed the bill by about two-to-one, 133-65. Their immediate response was to say that many of their Members turned against the bill at the last minute because Ms. Pelosi gave her nasty speech. So they are saying that Republicans chose to oppose something they think is in the national interest merely because of a partisan slight. Thank heaven these guys weren&#8217;t at Valley Forge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An Ode To Crybaby Republicans<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Republican leaders assert<br \/>\nThat the plan that attempts to avert<br \/>\nA depression just failed<br \/>\nCuz Pelosi&#8217;s speech nailed<br \/>\nBush&#8217;s failures &#8212; their feelings were hurt.<\/p>\n<p>They are patriots first, they proclaim,<br \/>\nBut when action&#8217;s a must they hurl blame,<br \/>\nRushing out to condemn<br \/>\n&#8220;Hurtful&#8221; words from a Dem.<br \/>\nThey treat critical bills like a game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s editorial page thinks Republicans are crybabies about the bailout bill: House Republicans share the blame, and not only because they opposed the bill by about two-to-one, 133-65. Their immediate response was to say that many of their Members turned against the bill at the last minute because Ms. Pelosi gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[179,31,15,44,115,114,20,180,14,36,6,7,9,45],"tags":[393,389,390,387,386,391,394,388,392,385],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"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=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}