When it comes to health reform, Republicans are stuck between their crock and a hard place. <\/p>\n
Repeal (requiring a veto-proof majority<\/a> as long as Obama is president) is virtually impossible, not to mention unpopular. But the very GOP lies that came close to blocking health reform have brainwashed the Republican base into demanding its rescission. Consequently, many Republican leaders feel forced to perpetuate their doomsday and Armageddon claims<\/a> and fight for repeal<\/a>, even though they know it’s a lost cause.<\/a><\/p>\n That brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n Republicans: Stuck Between Their Crock And A Hard Place The GOP base screams “Repeal!” When it comes to health reform, Republicans are stuck between their crock and a hard place. Repeal (requiring a veto-proof majority as long as Obama is president) is virtually impossible, not to mention unpopular. But the very GOP lies that came close to blocking health reform have brainwashed the Republican base into demanding its rescission. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,52,556,11,6,9],"tags":[2763,830,851,702],"class_list":["post-2896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gop-humor","category-health-satire","category-insurance-humor","category-legislation","category-political-limericks","category-republicans","tag-gop-humor","tag-health-care-reform","tag-legislation-satire","tag-republicans-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896","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=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
\nAnd Republicans pledge to with zeal.
\nCuz they set their own trap
\nWith their factual gap:
\nNixing laws that have widespread appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"