{"id":2647,"date":"2010-03-05T01:07:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T05:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2647"},"modified":"2010-03-05T01:07:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T05:07:38","slug":"jim-bunning-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/03\/05\/jim-bunning-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To An Obstructionist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you undoubtedly know, Senator James Bunning (R-Kentucky)  is retiring at the end of the year &#8230; and none too soon.  Embittered and unstable, Jim Bunning seems determined to inflict as much damage as possible during his final months in office. <\/p>\n<p>The immediate crisis caused by &#8220;Bunning&#8217;s Blockade&#8221; is now over, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2010_03\/022672.php\">unemployment benefits and other payments blocked by Bunning&#8217;s obstruction<\/a> are back in the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Not that Bunning&#8217;s finished making trouble.  He also placed a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/theworldnewser\/2010\/03\/sen-bunning-blocking-several-dozen-senate-nominations.html\">blanket hold on all pending presidential nominees.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Why? Because he felt like it.<\/p>\n<p>I do believe Bunning&#8217;s earned himself a limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Ode To An Obstructionist (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Republican Senator Bunning<br \/>\nSeems senile and evilly cunning.<br \/>\nOn his way out the door<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s done damage galore.<br \/>\nBut at least he&#8217;s not once again running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you undoubtedly know, Senator James Bunning (R-Kentucky) is retiring at the end of the year &#8230; and none too soon. Embittered and unstable, Jim Bunning seems determined to inflict as much damage as possible during his final months in office. The immediate crisis caused by &#8220;Bunning&#8217;s Blockade&#8221; is now over, and unemployment benefits and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89,1181,1182,11,6,9,12],"tags":[1183,1180,1179,477,1184,1185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647"}],"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=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2729,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions\/2729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}