{"id":2856,"date":"2010-03-20T16:06:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T20:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2010-03-20T17:07:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T21:07:30","slug":"deem-and-pass-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/03\/20\/deem-and-pass-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Deem and Pass&#8221; Ditty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House has apparently ditched the <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/88031-dems-ditch-deem-and-pass\">&#8220;deem and pass&#8221;<\/a> health reform voting mechanism. Instead, it will hold separate up-or-down votes on the Senate health care bill and on the changes to that bill. While various explanations have been given, my limerick explains the real reason &#8220;deem and pass&#8221; plans have been abandoned:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Deem and Pass&#8221; Ditty<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>So &#8220;deem and pass&#8221; will not be used.<br \/>\nNot surprised &#8212; I was rather bemused:<br \/>\nTo me, it was seemin&#8217;<br \/>\nIt sounded like &#8220;demon.&#8221;<br \/>\nOf framing faux pas the phrase oozed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House has apparently ditched the &#8220;deem and pass&#8221; health reform voting mechanism. Instead, it will hold separate up-or-down votes on the Senate health care bill and on the changes to that bill. While various explanations have been given, my limerick explains the real reason &#8220;deem and pass&#8221; plans have been abandoned: &#8220;Deem and Pass&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81,52,14,1164,11,6,7,3],"tags":[1245,1247,830,1248,851,1249,1246],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856"}],"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=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2867,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}