{"id":2868,"date":"2010-03-22T15:13:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T19:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2010-04-01T00:50:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T04:50:14","slug":"republican-cooperation-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/03\/22\/republican-cooperation-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Addled Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that health reform has passed, Republicans are angrier than ever. Mitt Romney calls it an “unconscionable abuse of power”<\/a> and Bill Kristol is urging repeal in a Weekly Standard editorial.<\/a> Moreover, Senators John McCain, Judd Gregg and their fellow GOPers are so incensed that they’ve come up with a very creative threat:<\/a> <\/p>\n

GOP senators emerged Monday to caution that the health debate had taken a toll on the institution, warning of little work between parties the rest of this year.<\/p>\n

“There will be no cooperation for the rest of the year,” McCain said during an interview Monday on an Arizona radio affiliate. “They have poisoned the well in what they’ve done and how they’ve done it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow! The next thing you know, Republicans will be vowing to filibuster and obstruct. <\/p>\n

And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n

Addled Threats
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

The GOP’s angry as hell.
\nSays McCain, Dems have “poisoned the well.”
\nSo the rest of the year
\nWe won’t work with them here.
\nAnd how is that diff’rent? Do tell!<\/p>\n

     \n<\/p>\n

********<\/p>\n

I proud to say that this post is mentioned in the excellent
\nHealth Wonk Review: Special Edition On Health Reform.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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