{"id":2599,"date":"2010-02-28T21:57:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T01:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2010-02-28T21:57:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T01:57:33","slug":"lamar-alexander-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/02\/28\/lamar-alexander-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"A Limerick For Lamar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Steve Benen points out, we&#8217;ve already tried <a href=\" http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2010_02\/022632.php\">incrementalism.<\/a> Nonetheless, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) keeps asserting that Congress can&#8217;t pass major legislation and should instead do things in bits and pieces.  <\/p>\n<p>Of course, Lamar and his fellow Republicans would say and do just about anything to prevent Democrats from passing comprehensive health care reform.<\/p>\n<p>Lamar has earned himself a limerick:<\/p>\n<p>A Limerick For Lamar<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Incremental reforms are the best,<br \/>\nClaims Lamar in support of his quest.<br \/>\nSweeping change is too hard,<br \/>\nSays this Sen. to retard<br \/>\nAll our health reform progress. Quelle peste!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Steve Benen points out, we&#8217;ve already tried incrementalism. Nonetheless, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) keeps asserting that Congress can&#8217;t pass major legislation and should instead do things in bits and pieces. Of course, Lamar and his fellow Republicans would say and do just about anything to prevent Democrats from passing comprehensive health care reform. Lamar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,52,556,1159,11,6,7,3,9],"tags":[701,830,1161,2873,851,702,1160],"class_list":["post-2599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gop-humor","category-health-satire","category-insurance-humor","category-lamar-alexander","category-legislation","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","tag-congress-humor","tag-health-care-reform","tag-incrementalism","tag-lamar-alexander","tag-legislation-satire","tag-republicans-humor","tag-tennessee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599","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=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2618,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions\/2618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}