{"id":2822,"date":"2010-03-17T16:31:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T20:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2010-04-01T00:52:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T04:52:11","slug":"dennis-kucinich-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/03\/17\/dennis-kucinich-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Et Tu, Dennis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big news on the health reform front: <a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/health-care\/breaking-kucinich-to-vote-yes\/\">Dennis Kucinich caved.<\/a> &#8220;Something is better than nothing,\u201d the Ohio Congressman explained.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not at all sure I buy the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/blogs\/americandebate\/Half_a_loaf.html\">half a loaf theory<\/a> because I have zero faith in Obama and his fellow Dems.  I just  don&#8217;t believe Democrats will ever manage to improve their health reform recipe. <\/p>\n<p>Et Tu, Dennis?  (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Obama takes lib&#8217;rals for granted,<br \/>\nAnd with Dennis&#8217;s &#8220;no&#8221; vote recanted,<br \/>\nIt appears that he&#8217;s right:<br \/>\nLib&#8217;ral pols have no fight!<br \/>\nCount this lib&#8217;ral as quite disenchanted.<\/p>\n<p><em>Related Post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/02\/18\/obama-excuses-voltaire\/\">Dear Obama, Enough With The Voltaire!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I proud to say that this post is mentioned in the excellent<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.avancehealth.com\/2010\/03\/health-wonk-review-special-edition-on.html\">Health Wonk Review: Special Edition On Health Reform.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big news on the health reform front: Dennis Kucinich caved. &#8220;Something is better than nothing,\u201d the Ohio Congressman explained. I&#8217;m not at all sure I buy the half a loaf theory because I have zero faith in Obama and his fellow Dems. I just don&#8217;t believe Democrats will ever manage to improve their health reform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,15,81,52,11,6,7,3],"tags":[500,2857,1228,830,1161,851,1229,1230],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-congress","category-democrats-satire","category-health-satire","category-legislation","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","tag-congress-satire","tag-democrats-humor","tag-dennis-kucinich","tag-health-care-reform","tag-incrementalism","tag-legislation-satire","tag-liberals-satire","tag-ohio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","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=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2975,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}